2004-05-23
... ? The New York Times > Magazine > Encounter: Music's Misery Man ReturnsStanding stoically under a haze of hair spray, the 45-year-old Morrissey -- hair a tad thinner than it was in the Smiths days, sideburns speckled gray -- wore modishly distressed jeans and a white blazer. He wore, too, his signature stare: a stony, blue-eyed gaze that toes the line between apathy and ache.