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...JERRY F. COSTELLO (D) District 12 (Southwest--Carbondale; East St. Louis...
...Costello is a conservative Democrat who doesn't fit the Democrat mold. An opponent of abortion and gun control, he also bucked the party by voting to keep the ban on gays in the military. Costello retains his liberal credentials because he is not afraid to raise taxes to cure deficit ills. Most important, he knows how to bring in millions of dollars to his district for public-works projects...
Except for a Dixie Cup-esque cut (I Do), the Grace of My Heart songs aren't primarily parodies; they're just good music. The pearl is God Give Me Strength, by Bacharach and Elvis Costello. Broody and complex, it suggests a tune Bacharach might have given Dionne Warwick to sing in an uptown nightclub at 3 a.m. "Burt consciously breaks rules with bar lines," says Costello. "He's breaking the meter, but it still feels natural. And he expresses feeling so much better than the trumped-up romantic ballads of today, where the emotions seem to have come...
Anders' one good idea was to paper the movie with music--not from the period, but newly written by '60s veterans (Burt Bacharach, Joni Mitchell and, oddly, Goffin himself) and a few younger ringers (Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Sonic Youth) working in the old spirit. These fine tunes recall what was best about that era and point to what this movie should have been. Radio...
BURT BACHARACH, swinging elevator-music king, and ELVIS COSTELLO, curmudgeonly Scot, have teamed up to create a song for the movie Grace of My Heart. It wasn't a close collaboration: the tune was written mostly by playing eight-bar snatches into each other's answering machine. But the two did make a connection. "We've talked about doing an album together," says Bacharach. "We've even got a concept." Costello may have time too; he keeps hinting that he's on his last tour. And Bacharach is enjoying a steep rise in grooviness, especially in England. Says...