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...Within a year, Phillips had sold Presley's contract to RCA Victor for $25,000. He says he never regretted the decision, never looked back. He soon had another rockabilly prodigy, Carl Perkins, whose "Blue Suede Shoes" kicked some serious chart butt: #1 country & western, #2 pop and rhythm 'n blues. Johnny Cash, the Arkansas gent with a grave voice and a lifer's stare, recorded "I Walk the Line": #1 country, #17 pop. Roy Orbison, who would not fully flower till the '60s, did an early stretch at Sun, recording some goofy rockers and writing a hit song...
...plot is complexity itself. It's Friday in L.A., and tart-tongued management type Lee (Catherine Keener) is ready to walk out on mousy Carl (David Hyde Pierce), a magazine writer who moonlights with plays and film scripts. His Hitler play opens tonight. His movie is being shot right now with movie star Francesca (Julia Roberts) and rising TV actor Calvin (Blair Underwood). The film's producer, Gus (David Duchovny), turns 40 today and is expected at a birthday party a few hours after he gets a massage from Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack). Everyone collides, sexually or emotionally...
...Carl's Hitler (the very funny Nicky Katt) explains to Eva Braun, "I'm too committed to my work to maintain a relationship ...I'm taking a swim in Lake Me." This beguiling film is about whether its attractive egocentrics will ever stick their toe in Lake Anybody Else. For an invigorating summer dip in the waters of Lake Smart, dive into Full Frontal...
...first Williams had a wild swing that often, eerily, found the ball. Later, observed Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski, "he studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market." Williams treated the game as a science and a fine art, weighing his bats on a postal scale, massaging them with olive oil and resin. When he said, "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders," he was speaking of a sharp eye--to read the seams on a curve ball and then smack the cover off it--and a UNIVAC brain that held all relevant data on a rival pitcher...
...Chairman Carl Levin of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (which prepared the study) also blasts directors for "failing to acknowledge" their share of the blame for Enron's collapse. A lawyer for the board said directors were "misled" and that the report is "very unfair," but it will be welcome news to shareholders seeking billions of dollars in compensation from Enron; they could get a legal boost from the 60-page document. The bipartisan study also raises the likelihood that onetime Enron board members will come under renewed pressure to resign directorships at other major corporations like Lockheed...