Bays softer side is revealed when Meat Loafs video starts. This is a 7-1/2-minute- long adult fairy tale. We never really know what Meat Loaf wouldnt do for love, but we do have to fight back the tears in this fast-moving, bombastic reinterpretation of Beauty and the Beast -- at least thats what it appears to be. Thereare shards of blood-coated glass, police lines, weirdos in mansions and a naked woman in ecstasy in a bathtub. Follow all that? Doesnt matter, as every shot -- and every strained vocal cord -- bleeds passion. (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)
