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...true, and that was how I came to be riding all night from Connecticut down to Tennessee with a busload of middle-aged women hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young and sweet, and who now spends sleepless nights in the cab of a tractor-trailer rig, squinting out over burning cigarettes at interstate highways as she roams from city to city, transporting sides of beef and chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated...
...start of the play Moorehouse is an undistinguished, boyish employee in a real estate firm. He is clean-cut and innocent with bright blue eyes, and he meets a wealthy woman whom he marries several scenes later. As Moorehouse's career soars, the plot switches focus to Janey and Joe Williams, two kids from a middle-class Georgetown background. Unlike Moorehouse, Janey and Joe do not become success stories. Joe runs away from home, enlists in the navy, deserts, and become a workingman whose "future is behind him." Janey ends up as Moorehouse's secretary...
...strong performances of Kate Silverman, Kerry Konrad and Lou Ann Maywald, however, that carry U.S.A. through its weaknesses. Kate Silverman, as the bouncy Janey Williams, is consistently credible and fun, perhaps because she makes little effort to act in period. While she fails to make the transition convincing from the child Janey to the adult, she brings considerable depth to both personalities...
...climactic moment of a trial that had leaped from one emotional peak to another for eight dramatic weeks. "Oh, my God," gasped Catherine Hearst, when she heard her 22-year-old daughter declared guilty. Two of Patty's sisters began to weep, as did U.S. Deputy Marshal Janey Jimenez, the defendant's photogenic escort for most of the trial. As for Patty, she betrayed no emotion, but her face was drained of color. She whispered almost despondently to one of her lawyers: "I wonder if I ever had a chance...
...publishes two magazines-Tiger Beat and Official Monkee Spectacular-and next month plans to add a new one, Fave (teenage slang for favorite). In addition to the letters, though, the staffs keep in touch simply by being young themselves; they average 23 or 24. Says Teen Screen Executive Editor Janey Milstead, who is a creaky 27: "It would help if you never grew...