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ON NEWSSTANDS NOW Also available at bn.com/rspinkfloyd RS1200 “All the NEWS THAT FITS” FEATURES CHASSAGNE’S DRESS AND JACKET BY RENATA MORALES, STOCKINGS BY FOGAL BUTLER’S JACKET AND SHIRT BY YOHJI YAMAMOTO BOTTOM, FROM LEFT: MARY CYBULSKI/PARAMOUNT PICTURES; KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE 35 The Great Marijuana Experiment As Washington and Colorado create rules and regulations for selling legal marijuana, across the country pot arrests are near record highs By Bruce Barcott 40 The Beatles in America Fifty years ago, they came to the U.S facing media disdain and a clueless record label, and set of the biggest explosion rock has ever seen By Mik al Gilmore 48 The Unforgettable Fire Win Butler wants to make Arcade Fire the world’s biggest band – whether his bandmates like it or not By Josh Eells 54 The WikiLeaks Mole How a teenage misfit became the keeper of Julian Assange’s deepest secrets – only to betray him By David Kushner ROCK & ROLL 13 Bruce’s Big Surprise An exclusive Q&A with Springsteen on his unexpected new album – and what’s next 18 Nirvana, Kiss and More Join Hall of Fame Induction ceremony hits Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for first time ever in April Régine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire Page 48 DEPARTMENTS RECORD REVIEWS 63 Fifty Shades of Cray Beyoncé surprises the world with an excellent, sexed-up LP MOVIE REVIEWS 70 ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Martin Scorsese’s brilliant take on a financial and moral crisis Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street Page 22 Nirvana lead the Hall of Fame inductees Page 18 ON THE COVER The Beatles (Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison) photographed in Los Angeles in August 1964, by Bill Ray/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Top photograph by Mark Seliger rollingstone.com | R ol l i n g S t o n e | PREVIEW: 50 REASONS TO LOVE 2014 caption here INCOMING We run down the coolest upcoming projects in music, movies and TV – like Season Three of Girls, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, and new albums from U2, Adele, St Vincent and more SNEAK PEEK: JOHNNY CASH’S LOST ALBUM Back in the early 1980s, Cash recorded an album called Out Among the Stars but never released it With the LP finally due in stores in March, you can hear one song right now at rollingstone.com DESIGN DIRECTOR: Joseph Hutchinson CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jodi Peckman ART DEPARTMENT: Matthew Cooley, Mark Maltais (Art Dirs.), Toby Fox, Yelena Guller (Assoc Art Dirs.) 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Michael Epstein, via the Internet how can you give manson the time of day? He should have had a stake through his heart 40 years ago Those sounds you hear are his victims spinning in their graves James B Doris Washington Township, NJ | R ol l i n g S t o n e | it’s obvious “star” needs a crash course in history Without Sharon Tate, no one would know or care about Manson or his wacko would-be concubine Donna Di Giacomo, Philadelphia there are sever al risks inherent in participatory journalism, especially when you get touchy-feely with a nut job like Manson If I was Hedegaard, I’d proceed directly to counseling, or call a priest or an exorcist – the devil has no doubt penetrated your soul, brother Scott Marshutz, Dana Point, CA in hedega ard’s fine article on Manson, he wrote that I am “battling cancer.” I’m sure rollingstone.com this was an innocent mistake on his part I had successful surgery in May 2012 and no longer have cancer Vincent Bugliosi, Los Angeles JFK’s Legacy robert f k e n n edy j r ’s story about his uncle left me feeling cheated and frustrated [“JFK’s Vision of Peace,” RS 1197] JFK stood up to crackpots like Allen Dulles, and we know where that got him As a Canadian, I’m worried about the U.S.’s future Americans seem to remain oblivious to the fanatics in their midst Leslie Cameron Cremona, Alberta it was powerful to read how JFK and Nikita Khrushchev collaborated to rid the world of nuclear weapons JFK was loathed by the era’s war profiteers, something President Obama shares as he negotiates with Iran Rich Eyre, Denver The Young Guns thanks for the engaging look at millennials [“Snapshot of a New Generation,” RS 1197] I’m a proud member of that open-minded and forwardthinking age group As states around the country move to decriminalize and legalize marijuana and end bans on gay marriage, millennials’ goal of ending strict uniformity suddenly looks possible Sure, we’re just picking up where the Woodstock generation left off, but at least we are harnessing our optimism Sarah Beck, Bryant, AR Indie Tragedy i’ m g r a t e f u l t o d av i d Browne for his sensitive reporting on the Yellow Dogs tragedy [“A Nightmare in Brooklyn,” RS 1197] That this talented band would escape Iran only to be gunned down in Williamsburg defies comprehension Kim Orleans, via the Internet Roots Rockers yes! the picture and the story about the Avett Brothers, “American Pickers” [RS 1197], were downright amazing Everyone is smiling while making music This is how it should be Jennifer Sabin, via the Internet Contact Us LETTERS to ROLLING STONE , 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104-0298 Letters become the property of ROLLING STONE and may be edited for publication E-MAIL letters@rollingstone.com SUBSCRIBER SERVICES Go to rollingstone.com/customerservice •Subscribe •Renew •Cancel •Missing Issues •Give a Gift •Pay Bill •Change of Address Ja n u a r y 16 , 014 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks “Cinnamon and Lesbians” “I’ve been tripping my face of since breakfast!” sings the ex-Pavement frontman on this lazy-afternoon nugget; the jammy echoes of the Dead make you believe it Billy Gibbons The ZZ Top frontman picks five all-time classics Jimmy Reed Beyoncé “Blow” Queen B’s new surprise-released album is packed with enough hooks to last us all the way to 2015 First, check this bouncy, vintage-Michael Jackson-style sex jam, which will have you singing along after one listen “Honey, Don’t Let Me Go” I’ve been playing Jimmy Reed songs since I was 13 We found this song on an old 78 at a rummage sale somewhere Sure enough, the so-called B side became my favorite Bruce Springsteen “American Skin (41 Shots)” One of Bruce’s most powerful topical songs – a meditation on violence and fear inspired by the police shooting of an African immigrant that Springsteen has been performing since 2000 – gets the studio version it deserves Lorde “No Better” More proof the New Zealand teen behind “Royals” is anything but a one-hit wonder This nonalbum single is a giddy electro-pop starburst with a line destined for high school yearbook pages: “Go all the way/Have your fun/Have it all.” Daft Punk “Instant Crush” video Otis Redding “Ole Man Trouble” Steve Cropper’s guitar intro is so simple, yet it’s got this internal sophistication that makes it nearly impossible for anyone else to reproduce Lord knows I’ve tried! Jimmie Vaughan “Let Me In” This song is written in a minor key, which gives it a real brooding quality – and there’s this wah-wah guitar, reminiscent of the theme song from Shaft The Rolling Stones Indie shredder Annie Clark, a.k.a St Vincent, is back to blow minds with a tightly wound freakpop groove featuring lots of her signature gnarly guitar breaks We can’t wait to hear the rest of her fourth album, due out in February “Start Me Up” We use this as our walk-in music on the road It’s one of the greats Keith Richards’ and Ron Wood’s guitar sound keeps on dragging us back, man Jack White Guest singer Julian Casablancas co-stars with a lifelike mannequin of himself in the eerie, stylish clip for the French robots’ sleek single DJ DMD feat Fat Pat and Lil’ Keke St Vincent “Birth in Reverse” “We’re Going to Be Friends” video White’s country-blues version of an old White Stripes fan favorite was a highlight of last year’s concert for the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis See why by watching his proshot performance online 10 | R ol l i n g S t o n e | rollingstone.com “25 Lighters” This is a rap tune that I’ve been singing for years Once I was playing some old Lightnin’ Hopkins clips on YouTube, and our engineer turned this up That collision became ZZ Top’s “I Gotsta Get Paid.” Ja n u a r y 16 , 014 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: © PAUL A HEBERT/PRESS LINE PHOTOS/CORBIS; ILYA S SAVENOK/GETTY IMAGES; STEVE JENNINGS/WIREIMAGE; NO CREDIT; LARRY BUSACCA/PW/WIREIMAGE FOR PARKWOOD ENTERTAINMENT; LEAH NASH; VICTORIA WILL/INVISION/AP IMAGES GUEST LIST NEW ALBUMS Pg 64 REISSUES Pg 66 MOVIES Pg 70 CHARTS Pg 74 Beyoncé: 50 Shades of Cray B unleashes a queensize album of futuristic R&B, huge ballads and graphic limousine sex Beyoncé Beyoncé Parkwood/Columbia HHH½ BY ROB SHEFFIELD “Can you lick my Skittles?” is the new “Hurry up with my damn croissants.” Beyoncé has delivered countless surprises in her 15 years on top of the music world, but she’s never dropped a bombshell like this The Queen Bey woke the world in the midnight hour with a surprise “visual album” – 14 new songs, 17 videos, dropped via iTunes with no warning The whole project is a celebration of the Beyoncé Philosophy, which basically boils down to the fact that Beyoncé can anything the hell she wants to David Bowie, Kanye West and My Bloody Valentine pulled of stealth releases earlier this year But this is a bigger deal because it’s Beyoncé, music’s glossiest megastar, working with the likes of Drake, Pharrell and Jay Z The state-of-theart videos come from directors like Jonas Åkerlund and Hype Williams “Flawless” features a speech from Nigerian feminist author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Blue” has a cameo from Beyoncé’s daughter, Blue Ivy, who probably won’t be president until 2048 but has a head start on running the world The sheer number of people involved in this top-secret project, and the way they all kept their mouths shut – well, Illustration by Autumn Whitehurst rollingstone.com | R ol l i n g S t o n e | 63 REVIEWS MUSIC LISTEN NOW! Hear key tracks from these albums at rollingstone.com/albums 64 Various Artists And I’ll Scratch Yours Real World HHH½ Lou Reed, Arcade Fire power excellent Peter Gabriel tribute Malkmus (seated) with the Jicks The Ultimate West Coast Guitar Boy Pavement hero finds perfect mix of compact, catchy gold sounds and hazy cosmic jive Want a killer tribute album? Put it together yourself On 2010’s Scratch My Back, Peter Gabriel crafted orchestraassisted takes on tunes by his favorite songwriters, including Arcade Fire, Paul Simon and David Byrne Now his chosen artists respond with excellent covers of Gabriel classics Arcade Fire warp “Games Without Frontiers” with Reflektor-style dub, and Randy Newman’s “Big Time” foregrounds the Gordon Gekko-era tune’s satiric edge Among the most striking transformations is Lou Reed’s posthumous “Solsbury Hill,” which surfs waves of sugar-rush distortion The disc wraps with Simon’s ecstatic “Biko,” which yanks the heartstrings as hard as you’d expect JONATHAN RINGEN Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Wig Out at Jagbags Matador HHHH Stephen Malkmus is one of the last Nineties indie-rock titans who has kept making his own eccentric music, on his own merry terms Though written while Malkmus was living in Berlin, the excellently titled Wig Out at Jagbags – his sixth album with the Jicks – shows his heart’s still in his native California, as he whips up song structures that give him room to indulge his taste for hazy, cosmic jive, sardonic wit and unabashed guitar beauty Somehow, the joker who sang “Fight This Generation” has ended up as the Eddie Vedder of irony Like 2011’s Mirror Trafc, Wig Out is one of his “tight little tunes” albums, as opposed to his “shaggy-ass psychedelic solos” albums Yet even his tightest tunes are full of bizarre detours “Cinnamon KEY TRACKS: “J Smoov,” and Lesbians” is a lament about getting “Houston Hades” “shanghaied in Oregon,” until it turns into a shameless heist of the Grateful Dead’s “St Stephen.” “Houston Hades” mangles a vintage Kinks rif (“Polly”) into a cowpunk sex strut, and “Chartjunk” is 1970s soft-rock choogling “Shibboleth” could have been the fifth-best song on the Pixies’ Bossanova – maybe Malkmus is auditioning to be Kim Deal’s next replacement? Jagbags doesn’t get too solemn in the lyrics department (“I’ve been tripping my face of since breakfast/Taking in this windswept afternoon”) But Malkmus prefers to his emoting with his guitar, especially in the fantastic ballad “J Smoov,” where he tries to write his own Al Green song When he stretches out vocally, to match the high-register tremble of his guitar, Malkmus proves that he can come on like a soulman – even when he’s wigging out ROB SHEFFIELD HHHHH Classic | HHHH Excellent | HHH Good | HH Fair | H Poor Garth Brooks Blame It All on My Roots Pearl HHH½ Box set touches on four genres – guess which one he does best Of four all-covers discs in Garth Brooks’ Walmart-exclusive box set, Blue Eyed Soul feels emotionally rich, Classic Rock rather overbearing, softer-rock Melting Pot a bit sappy These all focus on songs everybody knows and nobody hates But Country Classics, oddly enough, comes of less obvious and reverent It moves quickest, too, partly because so many selections – from George Jones’ early boogie-woogie to Jerry Reed’s bayou funk – have R&B in them Brooks yelps, hiccups, burps all over these songs – giddily, even comically In the process, contemporary country’s pre-eminent omnivore reminds us that country was never a purist genre to begin with CHUCK EDDY Ratings are supervised by the editors of R OLLING S TONE LEAH NASH it proves that basically any conspiracy theory is plausible The nail techs alone for 17 diferent Beyoncé videos? That’s a mountain of nondisclosure paperwork right there You crazy for this one, Bey The v ibe on Beyoncé is moodily futuristic R&B, strongest when it goes for full-grown electro soul with an artsy boho edge “Blow,” the best track here, evokes Janet Jackson circa The Velvet Rope, a song about oral sex that has an air of melancholy in the chilly neodisco groove There’s a similar mood in her excellent Drake duet “Mine.” Beyoncé throws in too many pageant-ready ballads about believing in your dreams and reaching your goals – but the highlights are the sex songs “Drunk in Love” is a superb duet with Jay Z, 10 years after “Crazy in Love.” These two still can’t keep their fingers of each other: “We woke up in the kitchen/Saying, ‘How in hell did this shit happen?’ ” Jay Z adds tasteless Ike-and-Tina jokes as he and the Mrs lead you on a sexual tour of their stately home, from the front door (“Foreplay in the foyer, fucked up my Warhol”) to the bathtub, where Beyoncé claims to “ride it with my surfboard.” She hits nasty highs all through the album, from the squishy slow jam “Rocket” (“Let me sit this ass on you” – now there’s an opening line) to the Frank Ocean duet “Superpower.” In the fractured Timbaland production “Partition,” she and Jay get kind of rough in the back of the limousine She has to warn the chaufeur, “Driver, roll up the partition, please/I don’t need you seeing ’Yonce on her knees.” But the car doesn’t even get to the club before, as Beyoncé puts it, “He Monica Lewinsky’d all over my gown.” Beyoncé may have gotten “bored” with the pop-star routine, as she confesses in “Ghost.” But only massive hubris could have made a feat like this album possible And Beyoncé’s hubris makes the world a better, more Beyoncé-like place Collect Rolling Stone Covers with the Original Photographs PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS AND COLLECTORS For the first time, you can own reprints of the iconic magazine covers, paired with fine art prints of the photographs LIMITED EDITION OF 200 EACH AND HAND-SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER rockpaperphoto.com/rollingstone REVIEWS MUSIC Williams in 1988 Childish Gambino Rebel Rock/Grand Hustle HH½ TV star makes an adventurous concept LP about the Web Lucinda’s Landmark LP Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams Music/Thirty Tigers HHHH It’s fitting that Lucinda Williams’ 1988 LP was initially released by England’s Rough Trade, home to the Smiths and the Raincoats – it deserves as much credit as any album for spearheading the so-called Americana movement, country’s postpunk equivalent Finally back in print, every song burns hot as ever: the indie jangle-twang of “Passionate Kisses” (which won a Country Song of the Year Grammy via Mary Chapin Carpenter’s inferior version), the incandescent sexiness of “Like a Rose,” and “The Night’s Too Long,” which could nearly be an outtake from Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska The live bonus disc features non-LP tracks (including an early version of “Something About What Happens When We Talk”), a crack band with guitarist Gurf Morlix and a riveting singer, fully formed WILL HERMES Royally Badass Live Prog Jhené Aiko King Crimson The Road to Red DGM Live HHHH Sail Out Artium/Def Jam HHH½ West Coast singer-songwriterrapper breaks out “Ain’t nobody here, baby, let’s get wasted/We should just get naked,” purrs 25-year-old Jhené Aiko on “Bed Peace,” her winning hip-hop-soul tribute (with Childish Gambino) to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 anti-war “bed-ins.” Of course, by the time the singerrapper adds, “Go ’head, tell your baby mama you gon’ be with me tonight,” the “peace” business has gotten a little complicated It’s the high point of an EP showcasing the adorable stoner flow that got the best line on Drake’s last LP (“I love me enough for the both of us,” on “From Time”), and it proves Aiko is more than a hook singer If her writing is still a work in progress, it’s progress that’s worth watching WILL HERMES 66 | R ol l i n g S t o n e | Atlanta crossover rapper gets realer, less fun rollingstone.com What we now call progressive metal – distended composition, flinty-guitar textures and crushing virtuosity – hit an early, breathtaking apex on this British art-rock institution’s 1974 U.S tour, the prelude to its last Seventies studio LP, Red The 16 shows in this diarylike box are almost all from soundboard-or-better sources Each is unique in its improvising valiance and the intuitive charge of arguably Crimson’s hottest lineup: John Wetton’s grunting yet melodic bass; David Cross’ lithe violin; drummer Bill Bruford’s orchestral fury; the singingneedle tone and vengeance of Robert Fripp’s guitar No two trips through “Starless” or “The Talking Drum” are alike; none fall into routine This was touring as nightly adventure DAVID FRICKE Twin Cities Funk Explosion Various Artists Purple Snow Numero HHH½ The hybrid of funk, pop, New Wave and guitarrock Prince concocted in the early Eighties was briefly dubbed “the Minneapolis sound.” This two-disc set tells the story of that sound, from the proto-disco Seventies to the synthed-up Eighties You get a high school “Prince Nelson,” in 1975, playing breezy guitar with his cousin’s ex-husband’s litefunk band 94 East, and two unreleased 1979 tracks from future R&B superproducer Terry Lewis’ band Flyte Tyme As the Prince era dawns, fascinating strains of paisley abound – like Alexander O’Neal’s “Borrowed Time,” which puts Rick James in moon boots and hits like Kirby Puckett JON DOLAN B.o.B is a gifted crossover artist – a fluid rapper, a fine singer and a skilled piano and guitar player who stufs his albums with diverse cameos (Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Rivers Cuomo) But his lyrics have never been worthy of his wide-ranging sound or rich drawl At times, his third LP goes for playalistic realism; “Paper Route” meditates on the perils of rapping about politics (“Look what happened to the Dixie Chicks”) But tracks with Future and Chainz highlight his limitations on the mic, and without the Dr Luke-assisted buoyancy of 2012’s Strange Clouds, the album falls flat – moments of well-meaning ambition notwithstanding JON DOLAN Death Grips Government Plates Self-released HHH½ L.A rap ranters get abstract “I cop this attitude all the time,” intones Stefan Burnett (a.k.a MC Ride) with irony on “Birds” – a song that, no surprise, is more about raised middle fingers than ornithology It’s the closest thing to a ballad on the latest samizdat album by the West Coast avant-punk rap ranters, easily the group’s most mercurial record yet “Feels Like a Wheel” is bad-trip club music, all razored verbiage over whiplash beats; “Whatever I Want (Fuck Who’s Watching)” is six minutes of extreme EDM no-fuck-giving Still, Government Plates is a rap record, albeit one whose abstracted fury and next-level formalism make Kanye’s Yeezus sound kind of quaint So what’s MC Ride pissed of about now? To quote Marlon Brando, “Whaddya got?” WILL HERMES Ja n u a r y 16 , 014 GREG ALLEN On his second album, actorturned-rapper Childish Gambino wields his nerdiness with newfound confidence, spitting meditations on Internet culture with f luency and ease The Community star (a.k.a Donald Glover) drops winking bars like “Never gonna reach a million/ Eventually, all my followers realize they don’t need a leader,” while click-worthy upstarts Chance the Rapper, Kilo Kish and Jhené Aiko make cameos The production is full of twists and turns – jazz fills, dubby static, R&B singalongs – that evoke scrolling endlessly through a Tumblr dashboard As a concept album on man’s most abstract concept, Because the Internet is more than worth the download MATTHEW TRAMMELL B.o.B Underground Luxury Because the Internet Glassnote HHH½ We’re so proud of our NEW graze box, we’d like you to try one for FREE! 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Shurrup and watch the telly, like a good boy!” But the afnity between all the Beatles stayed strong; for years, nobody could disturb that fraternity George Martin later wrote, “No one else had gone through what they had; no one else understood They seemed to find a tremendous inspiration from each other’s presence There was a kind of love between the four of them, some feeling that gave them strength Although the world had accepted them with open arms, it could also, in many ways, be their enemy.” No matter what, in 1964 the Beatles weren’t near ready to let go Perhaps the one question they were most commonly asked in interviews during that year was: How long could it last? Reporters were generally implying that the Beatles’ fame was a fool’s paradise that would vanish almost any day The Beatles never answered in a defensive way They usually said that it would end when it would end – they didn’t expect it to last forever Discussing the matter with author Michael Braun in the days of Beatlemania, Lennon knew how remarkable their story was; he knew what was at stake “This isn’t show business This is something else,” he said “This is different from anything that anybody imagines You don’t go on from this You this and then you finish.” [Cont from 47] him and offered to share it The band stufed wet towels at the bottom of the room’s doors, so the drug’s pungent odor couldn’t be detected Lennon made Starr try the first marijuana cigarette What did Ringo think, his bandmates wondered “The ceiling’s coming down on me,” the drummer replied After that, the rest of the Beatles and Brian Epstein indulged themselves Soon, McCartney decided, he was “really thinking” in a way he’d never done before He told the Beatles’ road manager, Mal Evans, that he had found the meaning of life, and instructed Evans to transcribe everything McCartney said that night (The meaning of life turned out to be “There are seven levels.”) “Till then,” McCartney recalled later, “we’d been hard scotch-and-Coke men.” Marijuana would have bearing on how they heard and made sounds and conveyed ideas, evident by the time of 1965’s Rubber Soul “We believed in cannabis as a way of life,” said Derek Taylor, the Beatles’ press ofcer McCartney later said, “We were kind of proud to have been introduced to pot by Dylan.” Dylan’s other efect on the Beatles was to help politicize them and broaden their themes and lyrical language By the time of their final 1964 LP, Beatles for Sale, the group’s music started losing its naiveté and facade of efervescence A l l t h e se t h i ng s h a pp e ne d w it h i n eight months after the Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show By the end of 1964, the band placed 28 records in Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart, 11 of them in the Top 10 They also saw 10 albums released worldwide, five of them on Capitol It was a fast and matchless epic, though by year’s end strains would begin to set in After returning to London in late September, Harrison said, “I’m a bit fed up of touring Not so much in England, but particularly in America, for instance I feel sure we won’t another tour of the States 69 YOUR TICKET TO SPECIAL PROMOTIONS, OFFERS AND NEWS PR E S E N T E D B Y On November 21st, Rolling Stone, British Airways and Rock Paper Photo hosted an exclusive exhibition of never before seen photos of the Beatles by noted photojournalist Henry Grossman Guests made their way to Gallery 151 in NYC where they enjoyed Britishinspired cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as they admired the custom works The true highlight of the evening was a visit from Mr Grossman who candidly spoke about his photographs on display and his experiences with the Fab Four over the years u THE BEATLES LEFT TO RIGHT Sonia Dutt BRAND AMBASSADOR BRITISH AIRWAYS , Christopher McLoughlin PUBLISHER ROLLING STONE , Henry Grossman, Courtney Ruttle MARKETING EXECUTIVE BRITISH AIRWAYS Mark Halpern CEO ROCK PAPER PHOTO , and Pria Patel BRAND AMBASSADOR BRITISH AIRWAYS WOULD YOU BUY STOCK FROM THIS MAN? DiCaprio on the Street The Cash King of the World The Wolf of Wall Street Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie Directed by Martin Scorsese HHHH pow pow pow pow pow That’s how Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street comes at you I could have taken a few more pows – which shows how much fun it is to spar with this baby You probably hate that it runs three hours Yeah, like we don’t spend that much time every effing day exchang ing banalities on digital media This is Scorsese, people, delivering a fullthrottle movie event Look closely and you might see your own venal fantasies in how these Wall Street scumbags spend their ill-gotten gains on drugs, hookers, cars, yachts and jets Working with a gutsy script by The Sopranos’ Terence Winter, Scorsese is jabbing hard at America’s jackpot culture The laughs are merciless and nonstop, every one with a sting in its tail 70 If that’s too much for you, go watch Saving Mr Banks Scorsese doesn’t coddle Wolf snarls and bites, but you won’t forget for a second that you’re in the hands of a master filmmaker Once again, following Goodfellas and Casino, Scorsese has his eye on money and how it moves through society, top to bottom The stock scammers of Wolf don’t carry guns or run gambling dens Greed is their bond, and they wear it like a second skin Front and center is Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), a New York broker with the talent to sell you nightmares disguised as dreams In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Belfort moved from hawking penny stocks in boiler rooms to founding Stratton Oakmont, a Long Island firm that ran the same hustle in a classier ofce Belfort eventually did 22 months of jail time for his sins But what sins! In his 2007 autobiography, the source for Winter’s Scorsese and Hill HHHH Classic | HHH½ Excellent | HHH Good | HH Fair | H Poor script, Belfort detailed excesses that would shame Roman emperors Scorsese and camera whiz Rodrigo Prieto (Amores Perros) don’t skimp on the decadence Putting on the brakes is the problem for Belfort and his top wingman, Donnie Azof (Jonah Hill starts at terrific and builds from there) For them, no time is wrong for an orgy or a new hustle Quaaludes are the drug of choice for these masters of the universe One scene, in which a ’luded-out Belfort drives home from a country club, is time-capsule hilarious And scary That’s the point DiCapr io’s swag ger ing, swinging-dick performance is the wildest damn thing he’s ever put onscreen Whether he’s lying to his trophy wife, Naomi (Aussie actress Margot Robbie in a star-making role), breaking frame to talk to the camera or rallying his troops like a hopped-up Braveheart, DiCaprio is a marvel Wolf is his fifth film with Scorsese, and they’re still daring each other, still pushing the limits Ja n u a r y 16 , 014 MARY CYBULSKI/PARAMOUNT PICTURES, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese take on a financial and moral crisis By Peter Travers a different father, and the son of her current Persian lover, Samir (Tahar Rahim), whose ex-wife is in a coma The plot is the impurest of soap opera, but Farhadi’s artistry and resonant humanism transcend melodrama and cultural barriers Bejo (The Artist) digs deep into the secrets and lies that have afflicted all her relationships, in a wonderfully affecting film that haunts you long after it ends The Kick of Fun and Fantasy Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Ferrell and Applegate Will Ferrell Directed by Adam McKay HHH When is a movie fall-down funny even when some scenes fall flat on their fat ones? When it’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues That’s because from the moment Will Ferrell steps into the blazer of Ron Burgundy, the San Diego news anchor whose ego masks gargantuan stupidity and insecurity, I’m a lost cause to laughter It’s been nearly a decade since Ferrell played the role, but it still fits him like a comedy glove Or maybe it’s just that the sequel is really the same movie with a slight update I’m not bitching Really Director and co-writer Adam McKay, possessed of a mad gene to equal Ferrell’s, has updated the plot from the 1970s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Martin Freeman August: Osage County Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts Directed by John Wells HH½ to 1980 when Ron, fired in San Diego and replaced as head anchor by his now ex-wife (Christina Applegate), has moved to Manhattan to head a 24-hour news channel that even he doesn’t believe in With him are weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Freeman in battle Directed by Peter Jackson FROM TOP: GEMMA LAMANA/PARAMOUNT PICTURES; MARK POKORNY/WARNER BROS PICTURES HH½ The first Hobbit was quite a success at the box office ($1 billion worldwide) But if we were being honest, we’d admit it was a little boring and a lot long, at 169 minutes The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a little less long and a little less boring That’s because after two hours of setup involving Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he hobbits along with the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and 13 dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), to win back the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, the dragon shows up This Smaug is a dragon The actors fire on all cylinders Matthew McConaughey just kills it as Belfort’s first boss He has only one scene, but I dare you to forget it Kyle Chandler, as an FBI agent, is superb in a devilishly clever cat-andmouse game with Belfort on his yacht And Rob Reiner, as Belfort’s dad, adds a much-needed moral resonance Belfort and his cohorts, like the criminals in Goodfellas and Casino, use drugs and sex to numb what’s left of their conscience They keep themselves and their families in expensive pumpkin shells Ja n u a r y 16 , 014 to die for Director Peter Jackson performs the same kind of miracles with the digital Smaug that he did with Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy Immortally voiced by Andy Serkis, to keep the larger world out With the priceless aid of genius editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese ties the myriad plot strands of his delirious fantasia into an unforgiving look at an unchanging America Good times and bad, then and now, we’re still watching the money The Past Bérénice Bejo Directed by Asghar Farhadi HHH½ ir anian director asghar Farhadi won a much-deserved Carell), sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) and studly reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) I’m not going to spoil the jokes by telling you what these idiots (it’s mostly more idiot stuff) But I will tell you I can watch them it forever Gollum seduced and scared you in equal doses Ditto Smaug As a digital creation, Smaug is a bloody wonder of slithering fright And Benedict Cumberbatch gives him a voice to match The scenes between Smaug and Bilbo imbue this bloated 3D movie with a sense of character and purpose As before, there’s a ton of padding Orlando Bloom’s Legolas shows up out of nowhere, surely not out of J.R.R Tolkien’s slender novel And the elf warrior Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) is pure invention But, oh, that dragon I’d endure another slog through Middle-earth just to spend more time with Smaug Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for 2011’s A Separation, a drama about a couple divorcing in Tehran The politics were there mostly as subtext In The Past, Farhadi focuses on another couple splitting up This time the language is French and the setting is Paris, but the process remains agonizing Ahmad (a stellar Ali Mosaffa) has come to France from Tehran to finalize his divorce from Marie (Bérénice Bejo) Due to a hotel mix-up, Ahmad must stay in Marie’s home with her three children – two daughters from tracy letts won every big theater prize, from a Tony to a Pulitzer, for his enthralling, sprawling three-hour-plus play about the squabbling Weston clan of Oklahoma uniting for the funeral of dear old suicidal dad (Sam Shep ard) The clumsily edited film, directed by John Wells, best known for TV producing (ER, The West Wing), cuts an hour of plot and a shitload of humor and heart It’s a shock Letts did the script; 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