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MUSIC: "With 77 newly released tracks," writes TIME's Richard Corliss, "RCA?s four-CD set 'Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music' means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley?s image and re-establish him as a powerful, pioneering vocalist." Corliss is happy to report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer...
...Richard Corliss...
...VIDEO: " 'Hollywood Rhythm,' Kino on Video?s four-cassette release of 31 musical shorts from 1929 to 1941, is something to sing about," writes TIME's Richard Corliss. "They reveal terrific artists -- Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers -- in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The films have the audacity of the talkies? youth: the films are filled with racial caricatures, and you?ll hear ?hell? and ?damn? in the 1929 Makers of Melody. But the tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. They embody the spirit of the Hollywood musical...
...Richard Corliss...
...children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. "Nicely, the movie lets viewers decide whether Brown is a devoted servant or a devious bully and whether the Queen?s long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "It also provides a field day for some wonderful actors too little seen on this side of the Atlantic. Sher is a wily, puckish delight; and Dame Judi, her face clamped in anguish, radiates the stern ecstasy of grief. This queen of English understatement embodies Victoria?s belief: that mourning...