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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I detect an element of masochism in Boston baseball fans. Baseball-minded Bostonians, I think, take a certain pleasure in watching their team lose. They feed on heartbreak. The Red Sox are an annual Greek tragedy. Rise, fall and catharsis...
...Heartbreak Hotel...
...when Presley's death was announced, a Hollywood mourner observed, "Good career move." Never was cynicism more prophetic. The singer's estate is valued today at $50 million, ten times what it was when he was alive. A new movie, Heartbreak Hotel, imagines a '70s teenager kidnaping Elvis to impress his mom, and Elvis: An American Musical is touring the country this fall. An Elvis postage stamp is probably next, once proponents agree on which image -- that of the young or the middle-aged star -- should appear on it. And one can call an 800 number and get details about...
Time and waste were sore subjects at the stereophonic boxing hall, where a confusing two-ring setup with buzzers and bells froze all four fighters at times. Anthony Hembrick, Kelcie Banks and Byun Jong-Il represented independent melodramas that seemed connected. In a recurring Olympic heartbreak, the Detroiter Hembrick was left at the bus stop by miscalculating coaches. "My dream went down so fast," he said after his disqualification. "You live it every day. You sleep it. You eat it. You train it. I lost my chance to prove I was the best in the world. It will never come...
Harvard had pulled its Ferrari onto route rout. Meanwhile, Adelphi was trudging along heartbreak highway, its thumb extended in the cold breeze...