Word: presleys
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...expenses, far below his normal income.) If the July 6 closing ceremonies are an extravaganza, Wolper says defensively, "the sixth is a big party. This country enjoys that sort of thing. People want to have a good time." And while critics sneer at the 200 Elvis Presley look-alikes, he grouses, "Nobody talks about Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic." Nor, he adds, is anyone giving him credit for the two-day conference of creative thinkers on liberty...
Adams anticipated the pomp and ceremony and would no doubt have appreciated Wolper's efforts to bring forth tears and goose bumps from the masses huddled around the New York City waterfront for Friday's spectacular fireworks. But he could not have imagined the 200 Elvis Presley look-alikes who will perform during Wolper's Sunday night finale. Nor could he have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal...
...consortium from 92 colleges and universities that will have 40 sousaphones and 76 trombones; 300 banjo and fiddle players; an 800-voice chorus; a 250-voice gospel choir; an 850-member drill team; 300 jazzercize dancers; 200 square dancers and 300 tap dancers --and, of course, those tenscore Elvis Presley impersonators. All that plus Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Taylor, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Frankie Avalon, Waylon Jennings, Billy Preston, Patti LaBelle, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, the Pointer Sisters, Charlton Heston. And Fabian...
Over there, the hierarchies of entertainment still closely corresponded to the more rigid hierarchies of social station. Caught between postwar exhaustion and a tradition of hard-line cultural formalism, young Europeans were a cinch to be enthralled by the out-front vitality of Elvis Presley and James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Mary Martin. "The musicals of the '40s and '50s," recalls Andrew Lloyd Webber, the British composer of Evita and Cats, "came out at a time when your national spirit was able to afford a great deal more than what we in Britain could. You had greater optimism." Fizzy...
...longburger. A 15-year-old Indian schoolgirl had a hit record called Disco Diwane (Disco Junkies). One time, an adaptation of American pop returned to the U.S. and popped over the top: among the Beatles' raw material was the music of the Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, but the band's worldwide influence was greater than any of their antecedents. Today American pop-culture imagery is being recycled more obliquely by Italy's Memphis group of furniture designers and by French painters mimicking the East Village fashion for graffiti...