Meat Loaf's rock now all in the family

If one adjective (besides "gigantic") adequately describes Meat Loaf, it's "game." Rock's operatic jester has tried plenty of angles in his surprisingly long-lived career: He's acted in the Broadway production of "Hair," served as John Belushi's understudy in "The National Lampoon Show," helped make history as part of "Rocky Horror," and huffed oxygen to keep going onstage back when the album "Bat Out of Hell" made him as star in the late 1970s.

By Ann Powers

April 22, 2008