Willem Dafoe hallucination. The cameo was suggested by Dafoe, comparing it to the ghost of Hamlet's father visiting his son to ask him to avenge his death. Dafoe was next seen in the comedy-drama "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), his first of three films with director Wes Anderson. He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. Dafoe then had a small role as a tabloid magazine editor in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" (2004), a biographical film about Howard Hughes starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Also in
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars chart, and was his first number-one album. Described by Bowie as "Ziggy goes to America", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the US during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour. In 2004, Brazilian singer Seu Jorge contributed five cover versions of Bowie songs, three of them from "Ziggy Stardust", to the soundtrack for the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". Seu Jorge would later re-record the songs as a solo album called "The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions". On the album's liner notes, Bowie wrote "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese I