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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...
Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities. The foster home boy became Our Man in Paris. He took Elvis Presley to the Lido. He asked James Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images...
Anders' one good idea was to paper the movie with music--not from the period, but newly written by '60s veterans (Burt Bacharach, Joni Mitchell and, oddly, Goffin himself) and a few younger ringers (Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Sonic Youth) working in the old spirit. These fine tunes recall what...
Though the book switches voices and perspectives--sometimes it is told from Milagros' point of view, sometimes through the voices of other side characters--for the most part the book focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel...
The novel gets some of its energy and power through the contrast and conflict between Rocky's Filipino heritage, personified by her domineering mother, and her adopted American bohemian culture, championed by bandmate-lover Elvis Chang. "My mother once confessed how much sex revolted her," Rocky says, shortly after sleeping...