Is another exciting experiment from director Richard Linklater, following Waking Life. Shot on high-definition video, this riveting, caustically funny film version of Stephen Belber's play stays confined to one dingy Michigan motel room where three characters, played by Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Robert Sean Leonard — all at the top of their game — open old wounds about a date rape. The wrenching result is impossible to shake.

“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"