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Most likely to bring Elvis back to life. With revolutionary speed, music lovers are replacing their favorite old scratched-up 45s and 33s with shiny compact discs. The complete works of almost all major artists, from Rachmaninoff to the Rolling Stones, are being released in the new format. At up to $18 a pop, CDs are costly, but the tones they produce are astonishingly crisp and clear. Pressed between CDs and cassette tapes, the venerable vinyl long-playing record is being relegated to memory lane...
Killer actress, please. We speak of Ellen Barkin, 35, who does more than curl men's toes. In her first film, Diner (1982), she played the young married whose husband rags her because she can't catalog his precious 45s. In Tender Mercies she was Robert Duvall's teen daughter. She righteously battled Dr. Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and taught her sweet niece how to dance in Desert Bloom. Just now she is bookending her role in Sea with a turn as the triple-crossing ultrabitch in Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome. Tough? This babe can blast...
...battle against sin, a warrior is only as good as his freshest kill, and that is why Hurlbut is riding shotgun this gray Friday afternoon during an assault on a trafficker in lewd videos. At the house, tires screech, and officers leap out with drawn .45s. "If anything's going to go wrong, it's in the first two minutes," says Hurlbut, taking it all in from the Chrysler. Nothing does, but the raid nets only a few small-time video wholesalers. However, clues quickly lead deputies eight miles away to a cramped trailer that proves a cornucopia of hard...
Green Fuse cut two singles, four songs, at the Fort Apache recording studio in Roxbury two weeks ago. These 45s, printed on green wax, should be ready for release by Christmas time, Brenner says. He adds that he hopes that the Lowell House party will help to get some of the soon-to-be-released singles on the air at local radio stations by building up the number of their fans. "That's why we're looking forward to playing at Harvard because we want to build a following," Brenner says...
Brenner says that a Boston Phoenix reporter who has listened to a demo tape of these songs told him she thought "it was the best tape she'd ever heard." And recently, Warner Brothers Records solicited a tape of the two 45s...