Word: mascotism
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This is a movie of missed opportunities; something very shrewd, pointed and telling could have been made about the man who began as a hard-driving rock star and became a sort of spangled mascot of Middle America. There is plentiful material here for social satire, the sort of thing the National Film Board of Canada did so nicely in their lacerating documentary on Paul Anka, Lonely Boy. Elvis might also have made a subject for a diverting visual essay on the sociology of pop. The filmmakers, who are responsible for the easygoing Joe Cocker documentary Mad Dogs and Englishmen...
...taxpayers because its cost soared from the original estimate of $3.5 million to $63 million. The overall Olympic bill of $750 million, or more than three times what Mexico City spent on the 1968 Games, caused some unsporting types to start selling posters showing the dachshund Waldi, the official mascot of the Games, using the Olympic Tower as a fire hydrant...
...Year; after a brief illness; in Laguna Hills, Calif. Despite advancing age and a lengthy layoff from circus duties, Frasier returned to show business by fathering 35 lion cubs in an 18-month period. The feat won accolades from a legion of senior citizens, who adopted him as their mascot, and a lion's share of royalties for his owners, Lion Country Safari, Inc., from Frasier T shirts, watches and barbecue aprons...
Jimmy was first hired by the Harvard Athletic Association when he was 17, but he had already been hanging around Harvard teams for years. When he was younger, gate attendants would let him into the football games for free, and when he was 16 he was manager and mascot of the baseball team...
Broadway's mascot is the golden calf. Few families in history ever fatted up the golden calf to such imposing dimensions as The Rothschilds. In this musical, Broadway is really worshiping its fondest dreams...