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...invented comedy bits that others copied (Allen's Answer Man become Carson's Carnac the Magnificent). He discovered or introduced talents like Don Knotts, Bill Dana and Tom Poston, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. He gave Elvis Presley his first national TV exposure, even before Ed Sullivan. He was, as the obits reminded us, a renaissance man who played jazz piano, composed thousands of songs (but only one hit, "This Could Be the Start of Something Big"), wrote a couple of dozen books and even dabbled in politics. Though a lifelong liberal - a union man to the end, opponent...
...trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger. On his prime-time show, he presented kids' stuff with a cushion of irony. He'd dead-pan the lyrics to "All Shook Up" as if it were a Shakespearean sonnet. When Elvis Presley appeared at the apex of his first notoriety, Allen had him sing "Hound Dog" in a tuxedo - to a real hound...
...addition to Linn and Beardslee signers from the Harvard community are Presley Professor of Psychiatry emeritus Leon Eisenberg, Hobbs Professor of Education Howard E. Gardner, Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics and Master of Adams House Judith Palfrey, Professor of Psychiatry Alvin F. Poussaint, Senior Lecturer on Women's Studies Juliet B. Schor, and Graduate School of Education Lecturer Richard J. Weissbourd...
...History is filled with white people who have tried to become blacker. Take Elvis Presley... even today, groups like N'Sync and the Backstreet Boys. Culture is for everybody, but there is a difference between appreciating a culture and appropriating a culture...
...1940s, that too crossed over as whites gravitated toward the language, fashion, attitude and music of hip cats like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. And I think most people today are clear that it was artists like Louis Jordan and Big Mama Thornton, not Elvis Presley, who created rock and roll and laid the musical foundation that crossed it over to young white people...