reluctance do to interviews // fairs best

Bob Dylan has always been a great divider. To many, he's a musical genius, while to just as many he's overrated and annoying. His aloofness and reluctance do to interviews and discuss his music to any great length have made him either one of the most fascinating or confounding musicians in modern music--or both.
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Of all the performances, [Cate] Blanchett has the most fun and fairs best in her role, which is modelled after the Dylan of D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back.
-- Indulgent Dylans blow in the wind in The Vancouver Courier, Friday May 16 2008

Corrections: reluctance to do interviews; fares best.