Michael Madsen’s brooding charisma needed Tarantino to unlock it | Peter Bradshaw

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The Reservoir Dogs and Donnie Brasco actor had a rare, sometimes scary power, as well as a winning self-awareness and levity Michael Madsen, star of Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill and Donnie Brasco, dies aged 67 Michael Madsen– a life in pictures Until 1992, when people heard Stuck in the Middle With You by Stealers Wheel on the radio, they might smile and nod and sing along to its catchy soft-rock tune and goofy Dylan-esque lyrics. But after 1992, with the release of Quentin Tarantino’s sensationally tense and violent crime movie Reservoir Dogs, the feelgood mood around that song forever darkened. That was down to an unforgettably scary performance by Michael Madsen, who has died at the age of 67. Stuck in the Middle, with its lyrics about being “so scared in case I fall off my chair”, was to be always associated with the image of Madsen, whom Tarantino made an icon of indie American movies, with his boxy black suit, sinister, ruined handsomeness and powerful physique running ...
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Taylor Swift Responds To Midnights Becoming Spotify’s Most Played Album In 24 Hours

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The singer-songwriter, who is 32 years old, released her most recent studio album, Midnights, on Friday, and she observed as it immediately earned the record of the most-streamed playlist in a single day in the record of Spotify. In addition, on October 22nd, before the clock could strike midnight, Taylor Swift became the artist with the most streams of any album on Spotify in a single day. A tweet from a music streaming service on Friday congratulated Taylor Swift, @taylorswift13. Swift added seven more songs to the album's tracklist just three hours after the album was made available for purchase for the first time, which led to record-breaking sales figures. Swift later replied to the announcement that she surpassed the single-day streaming milestone. Her album is said to have garnered more than the 183 million streams that Bad Bunny's May album Un Verano Sin Ti pulled in, which was the record that previously held the record for most streams in a single day. But before, the record of 176.8 million streams had been set by Drake in 2021 for his long-awaited record, Certified Lover Boy. Swift posed this question to her devoted following on Twitter: "How did I get this fortunate, having you all out here doing something this heart-popping?" I mean, what the heck just took place?!?! Although it is unknown exactly how many streams Taylor garnered with her 10th studio album, the album itself has made its way into the history books of Apple Music. On October 21st, #Midnights broke the record for the most first-day streams for any pop album ever on Apple Music. This record had previously stood since the service's inception. On Twitter, congratulations are for @taylorswift13. Swift's long-term partner Joe Alwyn (writing as William Bowery) contributed to the record, Lana Del Rey, Jack Antonoff, and even actress Zo Kravitz, with whom Swift uploaded a photo this weekend to mark the album's release.

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