Raspy-voiced singer-songwriter whose down-at-the-heels musical persona and colorful, jazz-tinged narratives have led to a second, successful career as a film composer and actor. Waits cut his first critically praised album, "Closing Time", in 1973, made his screen debut in "Paradise Alley" (1978) and subsequently played supporting roles in a number of movies, notably several by Francis Ford Coppola and Jim Jarmusch.Waits' songs have highlighted films ranging from Coppola's "One From the Heart" (1982) to Jean-Luc Godard's "First Name: Carmen" (1983), which makes mesmerizing use of "Ruby's
