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...decent voice, riff or attitude should be allowed to exist beyond a debut album. The mystery is thickened when an elite set of rock critics lionize the banal incomprehensibility as if it held the secret of life, the universe and everything that only the enlightened, fortunate few can understand. Elf Power will gratify those who believe that only mindless plebs think that music is made for listening and enjoyment...
...stub of a rainbow from a wooded corner of a vast Tokyo park. A towering metal sculpture of a robot character from his film Castle in the Sky stands sentry. Inside, a handcrafted fan whirs like an airplane propeller from the glass ceiling of a four-story atrium. Elf-size doors lead to secret passageways, and tiny benches line the theater showing new Miyazaki film shorts...
Sedaris' work deserves better, and it has been getting it. The acclaim began in 1992 when Sedaris read aloud on NPR from The SantaLand Diaries, a prickly extended sketch about working at Macy's as a Christmas elf. A book contract for a collection of essays followed. In Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked, Sedaris found a persona and a groove as a chain-smoking, movie-obsessed, gay misfit who got dark laughs from his mother's bout with cancer, from a painful sojourn at a nudist colony and from his fumbled sexual awakening at summer camp. "What...
...author DAVID SEDARIS has to keep singing the Oscar Mayer wiener song in the voice of Billie Holiday. (He did it on air once and has never lived it down.) So when Sedaris, the only person to rise to prominence by recounting on the radio his experiences as an elf at Macy's, took to the road to promote his fifth book, Me Talk Pretty One Day, he started charging. That is, he puts out a tip jar at his book signings. "I started saying, 'I'll sing it for $20.' And the next night, I upped...
...FRANCE J'Accuse The scandal surrounding slush-fund payments by the Elf oil company threatened to implicate the current government as former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas provided Le Figaro newspaper with fresh allegations. Dumas, sentenced last month to six months in jail on corruption charges, said Employment Minister Elisabeth Guigou and Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine knew about illicit payments to secure the purchase of a German oil refinery for Elf. Guigou and Védrine, former presidential advisers to François Mitterrand, denied the allegations...