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...movies. By the '60s, he was his own parody, stunt double, postage stamp--the first Elvis impersonator. In the new era of the singer-songwriter, hack tunesmiths were still handing him drab variations on Don't Be Cruel. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of Blowin' in the Wind (from a Graceland basement tape) shows he didn't quite get Dylan. Elvis was Vegas before he played Vegas--the ultimate lounge act. His movie and music producers, and the Colonel, called the shots in what should have been Elvis' prime. He didn't rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM HOUND DOG TO LOUNGE ACT | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...Office for the Arts denies funding to the one-man drama performance by Mark R. Talusan '97, "Dancing Deviant," citing its sexually explicit material. The show goes up during Arts First weekend despite its omission from the official program...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson and Andrew K. Mandel, S | Title: 1996 1997 Year in Review | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Dancing Deviant. Denied funding by the Office for the Arts, yet determined to express his talents during Arts First weekend, Marc R. Talusan '97 did his originally-conceived dance-monologue piece in the Kronauer Space. Well-received, the show pushed boundaries without becoming gimmicky or losing its flair and provided a welcome wakeup call to the lazy days of conventional spring theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTS YEAR IN REVIEW | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...enormous organ and a framed document signed by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The Adams House Pool The ater is easily the best theater in any House and the Cronauer space, though dank and bug-infested, offers a space for some interesting artistic fare (it is where the Dancing Deviant recently did his thing). On top of these places, Adams provides an active printing press, squash courts recently converted into an art gallery and, of course, the intriguingly decorated tunnels walls. That, as Marty Feldstein would say, is infrastructure...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: The Paradox of Tradition | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...result, the publicity material for "Dancing Deviant" has the slogan, "Banned from Harvard-Radcliffe's Arts First celebration...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Performer Charges Censorship | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

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