Word: presleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title song, Simon says, is not about Elvis Presley or his Memphis home but about a "state of peace." Simon's double edge is at his keenest here, using a country boy's dream mansion, which turned into a mausoleum, as an ironic counterpoint to Homeless, sung a cappella with South African Gospel Group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The rhythms washing over Graceland are infectious and inflective enough to shame rap silly, from the lovely, funky arc of Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes to the spooky snap of The Boy in the Bubble. African musicians appear on nine...
...bent, and not so much ensemble as communal. Like Sparrows Can't Sing, Joan Littlewood's delicious pub-crawl farce of the '60s, No Surrender flaunts too many characters, plotlets and reversals of mood but still manages to hold together splendidly. Thank Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale (whose elegy to Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", played the West End last year) for the film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn as the stage-frighted magician with a dead rabbit...
...Bonet, who drew on her Creole roots. "I had to do a lot of self- exploration." Bonet was not moved to any self-exploration by the news that the latest Harper's Bazaar had included her on its most beautiful list. (Among the others: Nancy Reagan, Cybill Shepherd, Priscilla Presley and Maria Shriver.) "It's definitely a nice honor," sighs Bonet, "but there are so many beautiful women in the world. I know the truth." Heathcliff Huxtable would be proud of such a level-headed reaction...
...anyone actually see the 200 Elvis Presley impersonators? I mean live, not a la ABC. And what do 200 Elvis impersonators have to do with the Statue, or Independence...
...wonder if anyone sitting on a boat in the harbor was thinking of the significance of the statue, or Independence Day, or the struggles of immigrants. Or were they gazing, as I am, at the Statue of Liberty and pondering Iaccoca, the High Heel Coordinator, and 200 Elvis Presley impersonators...