Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Of course, there's something strange about reading literary television criticism at all. Somehow form and function seem skewed. When you read it in the pages of the New Yorker (which for years ran a racing column that inexplicably described the decaying Aqueduct as if it were Epsom Downs), the...
DIED. Norman Taurog, 82, director who won an Oscar for the 1931 Jackie Cooper vehicle Skippy, and also made Boys Town (1938) and a string of lighthearted comedies and musicals between the 1940s and the 1960s, including six with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and nine with Elvis Presley; in...
Or "New Lace Sleeves," about thinking the world is what they say it is in movies or in the paper, and finding out it's all a sordid, ugly sham, the way Elvis did when all those record executives refused to look beyond his slightly spastic exterior--"Good manners and...
IT IS A GARISH, cosmic nightclub, the figures on the floor drug-addled, lobotomized, throwing each other over, punching each other up, selling each other out. Elvis Costello has played a lot of clubs these last few years; after an angry, violent American tour, morsels of America sizzled in his...
There's no blame here, folks, or anger. People don't really want to hurt each other, they don't know what they're doing or thinking or saying. They just imitate. The nightclub in Trust is a world where no communication is possible, nothing makes sense, nothing is real...