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Richman, whose other interests include the merchandising of Elvis Presley collectibles, has not managed to restrain the manufacture of vulgar, blatantly exploitative junk. In After the Fall, a play about a Monroe-esque bombshell, Dramatist Arthur Miller, her real-life third husband, has the stage husband warn the heroine: "It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Manufacture of Marilyn | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

Boys and girls of the early 1960s returned the favor. By plugging into the nervous system of every love-starved teenager, these "girl groups" dominated the AM airwaves for three or four years and made honest, infectious, good music besides. Wrote Critic Greil Marcus: "If you were looking for rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dream Girls | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Imperial Bedroom (Columbia). A funny valentine from a man who is still delighted to be one of rock's most idiosyncratic talents. Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain (Columbia). Joel's longest reach and his strongest shot yet.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The BEST OF 1982: Music | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

Their gravity is not without instances of whimsy. In William Hauptman's "Good Rockin' Tonight," an insurance man gives up his job to become a Presley imitator, convinced that since both he and Elvis are overweight, admire Cadillac Eldorados and like to stay up all night, he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Dec. 6, 1982 | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

No subject is off-limits for these catalogsters. In an effort to round out lists of the coolest movies ever made and TV's all-time greatest. Sculatti and his crowd allow some indiscretions which permit even a Z-bird to question the guide's true cool. The adulation bestowed...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Not Cool | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

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