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BURT BACHARACH, swinging elevator-music king, and ELVIS COSTELLO, curmudgeonly Scot, have teamed up to create a song for the movie Grace of My Heart. It wasn't a close collaboration: the tune was written mostly by playing eight-bar snatches into each other's answering machine. But the two...
MOVIES: GRACE OF MY HEART To watch a movie set in recent decades is to run a reality check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the...
Those who carped, indeed, about the $130 limited-edition mini-Coke bottles and the Elvis-imitator congestion of Atlanta's streets could have found the Games in lowercase by wandering farther afield to the outlying venues. All around the lesser sports, the air was thick with suntan oil as children...
ELVIS, FAULKNER AND FEMININE SPIRITUALITY Joel Williamson, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, explores the links between two of the South's greatest icons, Elvis and novelist William Faulkner. "They were born within 27 miles of each other," he notes, "and both were obsessed with race...
ELVIS: THE TWINLESS TWIN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL MEANING Peter Whitmer, a clinical psychologist and author of the newly published The Inner Elvis (Hyperion; $22.95), argues that Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse played a critical and enduring role in the King's life. "Elvis' psychic raison d'etre as a...