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Last week Producer Jerry Wald, whose last two films have been Grace Metalious' Return to Peyton Place and Elvis Presley's Wild in the Country, and whose heart's desire is to film James Joyce's Ulysses, said in self-defense: "I'm not idiotic enough to put Metalious on a level with Joyce." (He had been quoted as saying that Ulysses would make "as exciting a film as Peyton Place") "It's like talking about hamburger and steak. They're both meat, but one of them tastes better...
Still, jazz survived. Smuggled U.S. recordings were duplicated on X-ray plates, bootlegged for fantastic prices (tab for an Elvis Presley disk: $12.50). Musicians copied new Louis Armstrong arrangements from Western radio programs. Students begged visiting U.S. musicians to play rock 'n' roll. Clandestine jazz bands became so common in Leningrad that the Young Communist League formed roving ''Nightingale Patrols" to stamp them...
Better Board than Head. Karate has won the allegiance of such as Actors Rory Calhoun, Macdonald Carey, Nick (The Rebel) Adams and TV Detectives Frank Lovejoy, Darren McGavin, and Rick (Dangerous Robin) Jason. Elvis Presley, who learned the sport in Germany as a G.I., now spars with two sidekicks during moviemaking lulls, and even Film Composer Bronislaw Kaper has taken to the loose white gi suit worn for karate lessons...
...slob," raged one such. "I stick pins in your column only in the hope that you will not sleep at night." An American film exhibitor in Tokyo, infuriated by Ricketts' reviews, made him a standing offer of free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband of a belly dancer whose abdomen Ricketts had impugned challenged the columnist to a duel; Ricketts escaped the field of honor by inviting his prospective adversary to even...
...there are only half a dozen versions of Are You Lonesome Tonight?, including the original by Elvis Presley, which is now the nation's No. 1 hit. But if Elvis stays up there, there may well be a dozen variations on the theme. The Lonesome craze is the most blatant example of pop music's latest fad: the "answer" record, which provides an answer to a question raised in an established...