Alanis Morissette is not the person Rob Thomas thought she was. Matchbox Twenty and its lead singer once saw her as a Zenlike soul, Morissette told Newsweek for its issue hitting newsstands today. "He kept saying that whenever I wasn't with him, his imagining was that I was levitating somewhere, meditating," the Canadian singer said. But then, "we had the most debaucherous, entertaining, hysterical time together, so they were the first to say that their perception of me was a little off," she told the magazine. She did not elaborate on the debaucherous details.
The arts
Cowboy arias? Giddyap!
The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards. The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel and opened in October 2004.
Passages
Mustafa Khalil, 88, a former Egyptian prime minister who was an architect of the 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, died Saturday in Cairo.
Today in History
1978: Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1998: Three white men were charged in Jasper, Texas, with the brutal dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black man.
Today's Birthdays
Sports commentator Dick Vitale, 69. Mystery author Patricia Cornwell, 52. Actor Michael J. Fox, 47. Writer-producer Aaron Sorkin, 47. Actor Johnny Depp, 45. Actress Gloria Reuben, 44. Actress Natalie Portman, 27.
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