Word: huckstered
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Somewhere Colonel Tom Parker is smiling. The carnival huckster who managed Elvis Presley throughout the rock 'n' roller's career would love it that the King just topped the British singles chart for the 19th time - with a rerelease of Jailhouse Rock, timed to what would have been his 70th birthday. (RCA is rereleasing all of Elvis' U.K. No. 1 hits.) The celebration is also taking place in Germany, where Bonn's Haus der Geschichte has mounted a show about Elvis' 1958-60 tour of duty as a U.S. soldier in the Hessen town of Friedberg . Some 300 items will...
...lifted his dukes against a force of monumentatious sportumental influence. Translation: DON KING filed a $2.5 billion defamation suit against ESPN last week. "I seek justice," said King, disputing ESPN's SportsCentury profile of him, aired last May, which called the boxing promoter a "snake-oil salesman" and "shameless huckster." The program claimed-- falsely, King says in his suit--that he shortchanged Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes as well as a hospital owed funds from a boxing charity benefit, and threatened to kill two people. An ESPN spokesman defended SportsCentury as a Peabody and Emmy Award--winning series that...
...Slacker, a huckster tries to sell Madonna's Pap smear. Ever hear from...
...years during the construction of an “AirTrain” to John F. Kennedy International Airport. (Kennedy ’40 was a former Crimson Executive.) And hasn’t Amorello ever seen the cautionary episode of “The Simpsons” where a huckster and his monorail nearly destroy Springfield...
Luke, Owen and their eldest brother Andrew have all relocated to Los Angeles, although in coming months they will visit Texas to work on a film written by Luke that he will co-direct with Andrew. Luke will play the lead, a fast-talking huckster trying to go straight. But as close as the brothers are, Luke expresses some impatience about the frequency with which people ask about his relationship with his flashier brother Owen. "What can I say but I love the guy?" he says. "I hold him above me, as a writer and an actor." Then he adds...