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...GAME LAD, SO WHEN ELTON John was asked to write songs for The Lion King, he said why not. In a career that began 30 years ago with the band Bluesology and thus spans most of the rock era, John had worked and lived in the grand and sordid rock-star tradition: written hundreds of songs, sold albums in the hundred millions, cavorted onstage in tuxes and plumes, dared to announce his bisexuality, endured rehab for alcoholism, cocaine addiction, bulimia. Nothing human was alien to him. But as he began the task of composing melodies to Tim Rice's words...
...Acute Intoxication: Its Properties" is an unnecessary chapter. The drug's effects are well-known, well-documented, and often disconcertingly evident in our neighbors. One sensitive lad I know suffers from a sudden and inexplicable inclination toward flash photography while under the influence...
...Smart lad, to slip betimes away...
...critic for one of the seedier London newspapers until he arose during an idiotic stage performance and screamed curses. At liberty, he is asked by a terminally ill goddaughter to find out whether a moody 15-year-old boy, Wallace's godson, really has a powerful healing gift. The lad, it appears, lays on not merely hands but sexual parts to effect his cures and in this way seems to have worked wonders with the god-daughter, an elderly gay houseguest and a sick mare...
Imagine that. (I did.) "Please pass the boiled cabbage, mum...Not until you've finished your pint of Guinness, lad!" And, by the way, that's Celtic as in "Keltic...