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...start of the act. He takes it all from the top. Already accomplice in his fate, the audience becomes part of his misery, both the reason and redemption for it. The man will not stop, either. Finally he bails himself out with a saving, dazzlingly accurate impersonation of Elvis Presley...
Cowan spent his summer vacations running around the West Coast, meeting Elvis Presley, Donna Reed and eating dinner with Desi Arnaz at the Brown Derby. (I'll bet he didn't even order the cobb salad.) "Probably none of this should have impressed me," Cowan says. But it has. Although the book is no defense of his now-dead parents, it is tinged with their memories. If anything comes out of all this, its that Cowan doesn't really care about the structure of the network system. He'd rather gossip in gory detail about the promotional practices...
...that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach the people. His last synthesis before he descended into alcoholism and depression was to try to recreate Elvis Presley as Che Guevara...
...shrewd and sensitively contoured exploration of young marriage and pregnancy. It appears in both the O. Henry and Best collections. Julie Hecht's I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a stylishly intelligent and deceptively lighthearted evocation of a woman's fantasies about Elvis Presley. Hecht strikes the right balance of irony, nostalgia and affection for a time when Presley and the short story itself were still in full bloom...
...take an elaborate TV census-the networks spent a reported $13 million on that Sunday night to throw their heaviest punches at one another. CBS led off with Gone With the Wind; NBC followed with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; ABC, hoping to profit from the Presley boom, countered with its own special, Elvis! For millions of TV viewers, who had spent most of the season slogging through Sitcom Sahara, suddenly the tube runneth over...