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Nicolas Cage meditates on movies, music and what makes him happy

LOS ANGELES — Nicolas Cage and I are sitting in the middle of the Nuart Theatre, the art house bastion that has been a fixture on Santa Monica Boulevard since it opened in 1930. Cage saw David Lynch's "Eraserhead" here, more than once, midnight showings that remain indelibly etched in his mind. He took his son Weston to the Nuart to see a James Dean double feature of "Rebel Without a Cause" and "East of Eden" because he wanted him to feel the power of great acting and learn from the legend who inspired Cage to pursue movies as a career.

"I used to work at the Fairfax Cinema on Beverly, selling tickets and popcorn," Cage says. "It was my first job. I was 15 and all I cared about was cinema. I wanted to be in movies. Cinema had always been

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