It might take a bit to adjust to wild Irish boyo Colin Farrell playing Bobby Morrow, a twentysomething virgin who moves from Cleveland to New York to live with his gay friend Jonathan (newcomer Dallas Roberts is a genuine find) and Clare (a vivid Robin Wright Penn), the wiggy bohemian hatmaker Jonathan is shacked up with.ut adjust you will, since Farrell's astutely judged portrayal — he finds the crucial streak of manipulation in Bobby's sweetness — is a career highlight. Stage director Michael Mayer (Side Man) makes a striking debut in film, and his skill with the actors is often breathtaking. Sissy Spacek triumphs in the supporting role of Jonathan's uburban mother. In a childhood flashback, she discovers the boys smoking grass and listening to Laura Nyro's lush "Desiree" and joins them as if discovering a new world. Spacek's revelatory performance (hello, Oscar) is typical of the film's eye for detail as Bobby, Jonathan and Clare make up their own definition of family. In adapting his 19TK novel to the screen, Michael Cunningham (The Hours) must condense a story that moves from 1967 to the 1980s AIDS era into a sometimes rushed ninety minutes. But how many movies these days leave you wanting more? The funny and heartfelt Home is a small treasure.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."