Nothing wrong with a tribute to real-life Navy SEALs, the heroes who took down Osama bin Laden. But Act of Valor is an awkward something else. Filmmakers Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh have enlisted real SEALs to play themselves in a movie that's impure Hollywood fiction. The action, involving Chechen rebels, Mexican drug cartels and assorted terrortists, is staged. And it's hardly the fault of these commandos that their acting deserves no salute. In truth, they're a lot better than Charlie Sheen was in the 1990 crapfest that was Navy SEALs. I don't know what to make of Act of Valor. It's like reviewing a recruiting poster.

“IRM”

Fashioned to mimic the sound of a magnetic resonance imaging or MRI, "IRM" (the French designation for the brain scan) grew out of Gainsbourg’s love of the sound of the clickety-clack of medical machinery. The IRM album project also marked the fulfillment of two goals for the singer: to document a traumatic experience, and to record an album with Beck. Though her co-creator and producer didn’t necessarily know the details of her water-skiing accident and resulting cerebral hemorrhage (which lead to the IRM of the song's title), he somehow knew how to handle the material. "Beck had a way of guessing what I was thinking and feeling without me telling him," said Gainsbourg. "We never discussed these things explicitly."