Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a red light right at the start. In 1994's Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick movingly, and with the greatest empathy, showed the unlikely and glorious shaping of a poor white boy from the Deep South into a musical demigod. Careless Love...
Supporting actors included Emerson student Porter McDonald as the sweet and not particularly bright bartender Freddy, and Douglas W. Horner, a musical theater major at the Boston Conservatory, who played "the Visitor," easily recognizable as Elvis Presley. One of the best scenes is the final one, when The King is...
Bigger wasn't only better during the 1950s and '60s, bigger was best. The Cadillac Coupe de Ville was as long as a city block, with tail fins extending to the suburbs. Elvis had big hair, the Beatles came along with even bigger hair, and the Jackson Five arrived with...
The closer one gets to Cambridge, the harder it is to escape bagel chains and venues of cashmere sweater sets. Stereo Jacks is a slight hike down Mass Ave from Porter, but the CD, record and tape collection is a refreshing change from the hum-drum top-40 adult contemporary...
Engaging as it is, Evans' brisk newsreel is disappointingly too selective. His only reference to the Wright brothers, for example, is made not in the context of the birth of the age of flight but in a photo caption showing Teddy Roosevelt sitting in a pusher plane in 1910. Elvis...