Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of which appears to be causing much concern among Letterman and his brain trust, who have spent the past month settling into their new digs and holding twice-daily meetings to plan their new show. Much of the activity has been on the architectural front. In 12 furious weeks...
MUSIC: Bernstein Proves as Immortal as Elvis
Had he lasted a little longer in a life that was lived harder and faster than most (mood: appassionato; tempo: allegro con brio), Leonard Bernstein would have turned 75 this week. But the polymath pianist, conductor, composer, television personality, Harvard man, Broadway baby and quintessential New Yorker died in 1990...
The truth is, he probably wouldn't have. Vulgarity and showmanship were always part of the Bernstein artistic ethos. Waggling his hips to Haydn, looking heavenward for motivation in Mahler, Lenny was a marketer's dream, and no one marketed himself more shrewdly than Mr. Music. It was a source...
As a native of Memphis who's attending Harvard, I sometimes divide my life into pre-Firm and after-Firm. Pre-Firm, whenever I mentioned my roots, I'd usually get in response, "Oh, that's where Elvis lived, right?" After-Firm, I am told instead, "Oh, the Mitch McDeere...