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...Elvis' sideburns and a sequined jacket, its back stitched with the phrase DICE RULES. And he does too. He is America's rajah of comic raunch, ready to beguile fans who dress like him and talk like him and who have memorized his earlier routines from hit records and HBO specials. "I know you know the old s," he slurs between drags on a cigarette. "But it's a new decade, and I got new filth for ya." And he does too. Again the crowd roars...
...debuting April 1). From MTV comes cable's second network devoted strictly to laughs. But unlike HBO's Comedy Channel, which features MTV-style clips, this one will offer full-length shows: both new fare and reruns of everything from Sergeant Bilko to Saturday Night Live...
...late 1979, began by shoveling hours of fringe sports at hard-core fans, everything from dart throwing to Australian-rules football. Now, with an audience of more than 55 million homes, it is aggressively bidding for major sports like pro football and baseball. So is Ted Turner's TNT. HBO, meanwhile, has become the dominant network in boxing; it currently holds the exclusive rights for Mike Tyson's heavyweight fights...
...midst of completing three new records for the Elektra label -- a live recording plus two studio albums -- to be released over the next three years. He will also try to squeeze in a drama workshop at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, based on Dead Man Out, the HBO movie in which he stirringly portrays a death-row prisoner...
Tanner '88 (HBO, 1988). In the midst of the decade's most boring presidential campaign, writer Garry Trudeau and director Robert Altman invented their own candidate (played with mealy-mouthed hilarity by Michael Murphy) and concocted a brilliant satire of politics, media, life...