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...have inspired a passionate denial of the fact of extinction. Perhaps this is because his career died without Elvis himself actually expiring, and collective memory has woven into the fabric of myth the striking spectacle of a man living beyond his life. Elvis reached the peak of his fame at the age of 23 in 1958, the year Colonel Tom Parker, his business manager, encouraged the world-famous singer to enter the Army. Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies would sell out their stock of Elvis' recordings, and that the King could write his own ticket when...
...TIME magazine is doing an article on dating shows," jokes Jillian Barberie, host of EX-treme Dating, "it must be about the End of Civilization As We Know It." Au contraire, Jillian! The overweening drive for instant fame, near instant sex and a little money on the side is civilization as we know it--and it's thriving. Dating series have become to the 21st century what sleazy talk and courtroom shows were to the late '90s: a ubiquitous TV staple that offers a sneak peek at the national id--and the occasional blurred-out bare chest. Following Blind Date...
DIED. CHICK HEARN, 85, colorful radio and television announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers and 1992 inductee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, who during his 42-year career coined such phrases as "slam dunk" and "air ball"; in Los Angeles. One of the few off-court icons of the NBA, Hearn called the play-by-play in an uninterrupted streak of 3,338 games from November 1965 until Dec. 16, 2001, when he had open-heart surgery. "There's never going to be another Chick Hearn," said the Lakers' legendary guard, Magic Johnson. "Some people grow bigger than their...
...punch any pop performer ever launched and landed. And of these, "Balls" is certainly the greater. The first song was standard 12-bar boogie: C, C, F, C, G-F, C. "Great Balls," written by ace '50s rock composer Otis Blackwell (of "Don't Be Cruel" and "Fever" fame) and Jack Hammer, is a declaration of lust so impatient it needs only eight bars, dropping the second and fourth C lines. It gets the job done in a majestically compressed 1min, 50sec...
Fifteen minutes of fame might not be much--unless you're a fish, in which case that flash of notoriety is more than you had a right to expect in the first place. When it comes to the northern snakehead--the reputed land-walking, air-breathing, migrating Chinese predator that caused such panic when it turned up in a Crofton, Md., pond last month--the story may be even harder to kill than the fish. Faced with snakehead sightings in six other states, the Bush Administration--its hands arguably full with the war on terrorism, the Wall Street meltdown...