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...Elvis helped America realize it was dying to be hip. But having educated his audience to get hipper, he seemed to get squarer simply by standing still. He had segued from being Elvis to doing Elvis: playing him on TV and in movies. He'd become his own parody, stunt double, postage stamp - the first Elvis impersonator. In the new era of the singer-songwriter, the "mere" singer was an anachronism, dependent on others to write "Elvis-style" material. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of "Blowin' in the Wind" (from a Graceland basement tape...
After a media frenzy greeted the announcement, the scientific community dismissed the cloning as a publicity stunt to draw attention to a religious cult associated with Clonaid...
This could have been just the greatest, daftest, most elaborate stunt in movie history--a single, unbroken, 87-min. Steadicam shot that winds and pirouettes as it accompanies an unseen narrator and a 19th century French marquis (Sergei Dontsov) through 33 rooms of the State Hermitage Museum in an attempt both to give us a tour of the St. Petersburg palace's artistic treasures and to encapsulate three centuries of Russian history, of the Czars and commoners who lived, worked, danced, suffered and died in those sumptuous rooms and labyrinthine corridors--but because Alexander Sokurov is as much an artist...
...pioneering journalist and pilot who covered the White House during four presidential terms; in Fairfax, Va. She was one of three female reporters who accompanied Nixon to China in 1972 but was perhaps better known for her extrajournalistic exploits. When a plane in which she was taking a stunt lesson lost control over New York's Long Island, Wells parachuted to safety, and she later joked that her first job, teaching women that aviation is safe, was one she fell into...
...Clans (1976) all bubble with betrayal, with roguish good guys (notably the boyishly take-charge Chiang in The Heroic Ones) whose hands are quicker than their opponents' eyes, and with plot twists as unexpected as the trap doors that open for all manner of malefactors in Killer Clans. The stunt work is exhilarating, the narrative ingenuity inexhaustible...