Artist	Song
Zero 7	In The Waiting Line
Kelis	Trick Me
White Whale	We're Just Temporary, Ma'am
Jennifer O'Connor	Perfect Match
Toad the Wet Sprocket	Something's Always Wrong
Elvis Costello	Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution)
Bob Marley & The Wailers	Is This Love?
Aaron Neville	Tell It Like It Is
Gnarls Barkley	Neighbors
Apocalyptica	Bittersweet
The Hitchcock Rules	Company You Keep
Minnie Riperton	Don't Ask My Neighbors
Kings of Leon	Wicker Chair
Johnny Cash	Ring of Fire
The White Stripes	The Nurse
Steve Forbert	Sadly Sorta Like A Soap Opera
Doris Day	Que Sera Sera
A Perfect Circle	The Nurse Who Loved Me
Hall & Oates	Possession Obsession
Duncan Sheik	Out of Order
Sarah McLachlan	Possession (acoustic)

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Neil LaBute, who was raised in Spokane, Washington, is a filmwriter, director and playwright. He entered film school at Brigham Young University where he also met actor Aaron Eckhart, who would later play leading roles in several of his films. He produced a number of plays that pushed the envelope of what was acceptable at the conservative religious university, some of which were shut down after their premieres.

His two latest plays, Some Girl(s) and This Is How It Goes, are both about the lies men and women tell each other. They come with his signature caveats: trust no one, and there are no happy endings. "A good relationship equals a shitty story," LaBute says. "Drama's fundamental building block is conflict. You have to pitch people at one another. So my job is to look for ways to ruin a perfectly good day for people."

LaBute has received high praise from critics for his edgy and unsettling portrayals of human relationships. "In the Company of Men" portrays two misogynist businessmen (one played by Eckhart) cruelly plotting to romance and emotionally destroy a deaf woman. His next film, "Your Friends & Neighbors," with an ensemble cast including Eckhart and Ben Stiller, was a shockingly honest portrayal of the sex lives of three suburban couples.
Nurse Betty (2000) is an American black comedy film, starring RenTe Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear. It tells the tale of Betty, a sweet and innocent Kansas waitress who is a fanatic fan of daytime soap opera. Betty loses her grip on reality when she witnesses her no-good husband being scalped by assassins, and starts obsessively pursuing her favourite soap actor.
Next came "Possession," based on the novel of the same name by A. S. Byatt. The film tells the story of two scholars, played by Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow, who investigate the affair of fictional Victorian era poet Randolph Henry Ash, described in letters between him and another fictional poet, Christabel LaMotte.

LaBute's latest film is "The Wicker Man," an American version of a British cult classic. His first horror film, it starred Nicolas Cage and Ellen Burstyn, and was subject to scathing critical reviews and mediocre box office. I can't say as I blame them. It wasn't nearly as good as the original.
His latest, "Lakeview Terrace," is scheduled for release later this year and has to do with an interracial couple being hounded by a neighborhood watchdog.

Only 3 of the 21 songs in this mix were on official soundtracks of LaBute's movies. The others help to tell the thematic story of his work as a filmmaker.

Quiz - Nurse Betty is a waitress in a diner, who pours coffee behind her back while her eyes are glued to her favorite soap opera - titled what?

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