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Marina Picaso talks about the legendary Pablo Picasso: as a cruel and sadistic monster who needed to be appeased with human sacrifices in keeping with the best traditions of an Aztec god. "No one in my family managed to escape his stranglehold", she says. "He needed blood to sign each of his paintings." Marina was duly called upon to become a blood donor herself but, unlike others, she survived. 1923 word narr (Plus pix)

KID ROCK (Cocky), 4630 w, Q&A. ON: what being 'cocky' means to him, Milli Vanilli, the lack of good up-and-coming bands out there, his boredom with famous European sights, making Deep-Fried turkey for Pamela Anderson, competing for airtime with the likes of Britney and 'Nsync, the problem with women. "Women don't give you advice. The thing about a woman is you know, you could have oral sex on a woman for like six years, and she wouldn't tell you if you are doing anything wrong. She'll tell everybody else. But she won't tell you."

INCUBUS guitarist MIKE EINZIGER (Morning View, touring), 3525 w., Q&A. ON: the meaning of Incubus, the slow process to get where they are, being judged on a personal level by the public, doing drugs to learn it's good to be sober, boy bands, Jennifer Lopez, 'getting girls' when you're famous. "You're playing concerts and you're kind of the object of people's affection, and desire and it's kind of a weird position to be put in, I mean I'm like a skinny, freckle faced, you know, I'm not what most girls would consider like, tall, dark and handsome."

Former SAVAGE GARDEN frontman DARREN HAYES (first solo album: Spin) ON: The insecurity of Savage Garden's break-up and where he would go with his career, not being on speaking terms with Daniel Jones of Savage Garden, 'lightening up' both personally and musically, knowing himself more and learning to be comfortable with who he is, avoiding drugs as a star, premonitions, his reaction to Sept. 11th. "We left New York and I realized that what I felt was I was, we were witnessing some kind of fall of America in some ways, the end of some kind of period of innocence..." 5200 w, Q&A.

KEVIN SPACEY BECOMES A MEMBER OF THE PRESS IN THE SHIPPING NEWS.
Based on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the story traces one man's extraordinary journey to self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. After the death of his estranged wife his long lost Aunt convinces he and his daughter to head north. Now, in a place where life is as rough as the weather and secrets are as vast as the ocean, he lands a job as a reporter for a local paper. In the course of his new career, he begins to discover some dark family mysteries and finds friendship and love with a single mother who has a secret of her own. SPACEY talks about the film, music, careers, press, New York, exhaustion, confidence and more. "I didn't tickle her butt with a glove, I shoved the glove up her butt. Lets just get this accurate." 3300 w, Q&A

CATE BLANCHETT is CHARLOTTE GRAY a Scottish woman who joins the French Resistance during World War II in an effort to find her RAF pilot lover who was shot down in France. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong), Charlotte Gray is a powerful rites of passage, Charlotte finds herself playing a central role as she tries to save two Jewish boys from the gas chamber. About her pregnancy, current projects and silence in movies: "If I had my way, I would never speak in film at all." 4000 w, Q&A