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December, 1988
Tom Waits has been selling records and selling out concert halls for a dozen or so years, but most recently, he has begun earning raves for his acting roles in movies such as Down by Law and Ironweed, in which he held his own with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. Now, in Big Time, Waits combines music, film, mime, vaudeville, dreams and general manic raving to redefine concert movies. "It's an action film," he told us, "somewhere between Ben-Hur and Nosferatu. It has an infrared M...
