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ELVIS IS TO college students of the 1980s what Frank Sinatra is to septuagenarians. Almost everybody young and educated--from disaffected punkers to cravated junior businessmen--likes Elvis, and almost anyone connected with Harvard who could scrounge a ticket went to see his solo show at Bright. Elvis may be kidding when he refers to himself as the "King of America," but it is certainly no joke to say that he is the "King of Academia...
...problem seems to be that Costello wishes to be regarded as the voice of a generation in the way that Sinatra is, but he can't resist making a silly joke out of the whole process. As the beginning of his concert proved, Costello does not need the usual rock and roll trickery to be effective. He comes across most powerfully as a serious singer-songwriter with an arresting voice and a seemingly bottomless well of creative ideas. As his fans, we should demand that our voice come without all the Vegas bullshit...
...pressures her into marrying Pat De Cicco, an undercapitalized Hollywood playboy who is tall, dark and abusive. Eventually the search for daddy leads to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, 42 years her senior. Gloria also holds hands with Orson Welles and spends some wee, small hours of the morning with Frank Sinatra. The armor of such black, white and occasional gray knights is not deeply penetrated. Vanderbilt is more absorbed in her younger self, which she encases in a shell of hard, polished prose. It is a stylish, though distinctly cool, portrayal of the realities of a fairy-tale life...
Vasconcellos' task force last week joined an elite company, including Ronald Reagan's brain and Frank Sinatra's college degree, targeted for satire in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon strip. Boopsie, the strip's airhead actress, is selected as a task-force member mainly because she has out-of-body experiences. Her reaction: "I can't get over how open this state is to new ideas...
WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM, Forward and Torres 5 6 THE FRUGAL GOURMET COOKS WITH WINE, Smith 7 7 HIS WAY: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK SINATRA, Kelley...