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When We Were Kids: Fiona Apple & Paul Thomas Anderson (上)
According to People magazine, Anderson and Apple were first "spotted together" in February 1998, though Heath's Rolling Stone story from that January includes a passing reference to Apple showing up to a morning interview with a hangover after "she was up most of the night drinking Surfers on Acid (Malibu, Jägermeister, and pineapple juice) with Anderson," which dates the relationship back to at least late '97. Like a lot of twentysomething dudes in 1997, Anderson had a crush on Fiona Apple based on the barely legal soft-core of the "Criminal" video. "We sort of mutually wanted to meet the other person," Anderson said in 2000. "I certainly wanted to meet her. I mean, she was a foxy rock star who seemed really cool."
根據《時人》雜誌,PTA 和 Fiona Apple 在一九九八年二月「首度被看見在一起」,即使希斯在一月份《滾石》雜誌指涉了 Fiona Apple 早上接受採訪時宿醉,而她「前晚徹夜與 PTA 啜著酸性衝浪男孩 (馬勒布加賈格美思特加鳳梨汁) 把酒言歡」,記錄了這段關係得追溯自九七年末。就像許多九七年的年輕人,PTA 看了非法尤物的軟調情色 "Criminal" video 音樂錄影帶煞到 Fiona Apple。「我們有點兩情相悅,」PTA 在兩千年說。「我當然想會會她。我是說,她是隻看起來很酷炫的搖滾狐狸精。」
Anderson structured Magnolia around the songs of another singer-songwriter, his friend Aimee Mann, but he really wrote the movie for Apple. He was certainly influenced by her, later claiming that he would page through her notebooks at the house they shared — located not far from the filming hub of Magnolia — and "steal her lines." In the case of Stanley, the quiz show kid who's bullied by Michael Bowen's character and pees his pants in protest on the set of the game-show-as-metaphor-for-child-exploitation What Do Kids Know?, Anderson took direct inspiration from Apple's life and his burgeoning love for her, as he later told Rolling Stone in 2000.










