Word: elvises
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DIED. COLONEL TOM PARKER, 87, Elvis Presley's impresario; of stroke complications; in Las Vegas. The onetime carnival barker discovered Presley in 1955 and then masterminded the King's career while taking oversize percentages for himself. After Presley's death in 1977, his heirs sued Parker, and in 1982 the...
It's the business of Peter Segal's My Fellow Americans to throw them together, under pressure (the current President--Dan Aykroyd--is trying to implicate them in a scandal), and let them bicker their way out of trouble. This involves the former leaders in an improbable outside-the-Beltway...
Sometimes a smart tongue is the stupidest thing to have. San Francisco Mayor WILLIE BROWN, famous for his ability to excite the media, probably thought he was just mouthing-off playfully when he told reporters from Paris that he was hoping to find French people to invest in a new...
Claim? The Soviets claimed to have invented baseball; Cuba, the telephone. Some people claim to have seen Elvis, recently. Arafat claims Jesus was a Palestinian. Are all claims to be reported at face value?
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...