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...shortsightedly sold Presley's contract to RCA for $35,000. But his ear was infallible. He had the aural version of precognition. He retired a rich man--not because of Sun but because he was an early shareholder in another midcentury Memphis business, Holiday Inn. --By Richard Corliss...
...Hollywood, Stallone the star may be history. But in the rest of the world, he still helps make it. --By Richard Corliss. Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...Corliss's tribute to Peck seemed to lament not just the passing of a very admirable man but also the demise of men of strength and compassion in movies and in real life. Yet strong, compassionate men are as well represented as ever, perhaps in part because of Peck's shining example but primarily because it is the nature of humanity. Perhaps Corliss is hanging with the wrong crowd. WILLIAM C. BANKS Virginia Beach...
...real-life cataclysm won't come until Dec. 21, 2012 (something about the winter solstice and a Mayan prophecy). By then, Governor Schwarzenegger will be in his second term and eligible for Social Security...if there is Social Security. But that's a different nightmare. Or two. --By Richard Corliss...
...murmuring, meandering study with an apocalyptic punch line. But the corpses strewing the school corridors don't make the movie anti-American, any more than Hamlet is anti-Danish. Elephant depicts evil, and the ordinary people who, through bad luck, get in its way. --By Richard Corliss...