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...shook up, and don't be cruel, but can we please have a little less conversation about the deep cultural significance of Elvis Presley? Well, no, we can't, because, for one thing, A Little Less Conversation, a minor Elvis song from 1968, which was on the soundtrack for the even more minor film Live a Little, Love a Little, has been grinding and swiveling at the top of the charts in a remixed version for the past several weeks. You thought only a small cult of Presley fanatics believed that Elvis, who died in 1977 of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Live the King | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...that incendiary night at the Brooklyn Paramount - March 28, 1958 - JLL could reasonably expect he might soon be the most popular of the four. "Breathless," his follow-up to "Great Balls of Fire," was chugging up the charts. His next single would be the theme song to a (minor) Hollywood film, "High School Confidential." And in May he would begin a headlining tour of Great Britain. A star was born. A star prevails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Golden Sun | 8/10/2002 | See Source »

...With a few exceptions (like "Lewis Boogie"), Jerry Lee didn't write his own stuff. He made other stuff his own. And though he kept recording and refining his style, it must have galled him that some of his later, minor singles were remakes of songs by his old rivals and traveling companions: Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Yet Lewis was not one to hide; if the gigs paid a few hundred dollars instead of the thousand he once earned, he was man enough to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Golden Sun | 8/10/2002 | See Source »

Band-Aid Liquid Bandages Based on the same technology as Dermabond, the glue used in hospitals in place of sutures, liquid Band-Aids ($8 for a 10-use bottle) are swabbed onto minor wounds, allowed to dry, then left to wear away on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cut Above The Band-Aid | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. He must, for it is his nature, document his preoccupation with protuberances: the meditation comparing English bosoms to Italian abbondanzas, the tribute to "Anita Ekberg's gravity-defying / conically capacious dairying facilities." But he is as generous to other, minor bards as he is to himself, including long excerpts of movie critiques from the likes of the Kankakee Clarion, the Chico News and Review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for the Mammaries | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

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