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BURT BACHARACH, swinging elevator-music king, and ELVIS COSTELLO, curmudgeonly Scot, have teamed up to create a song for the movie Grace of My Heart. It wasn't a close collaboration: the tune was written mostly by playing eight-bar snatches into each other's answering machine. But the two did make a connection. "We've talked about doing an album together," says Bacharach. "We've even got a concept." Costello may have time too; he keeps hinting that he's on his last tour. And Bacharach is enjoying a steep rise in grooviness, especially in England. Says...
...late-night phone calls to help steer his political comeback, the former Republican strategist has become famous for casting a mighty and mysterious spell on the presidency. But the true magic of Morris isn't so much making Clinton understand that the American majority dances to a Republican tune, or extracting great ideas from Mark Penn's and Doug Schoen's zeitgeist-tracking polls, or rummaging through the bureaucracy looking for programs that help the President appear relevant. Morris' gift is to be a psychological trip wire for Clinton, pushing ideological gambits so far across the spectrum that Clinton...
Political consultant Ed Rollins, in his account, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, of Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign [BOOK EXCERPT, Aug. 12], still seems not to appreciate how acceptable (and cost-effective) Perot's departure from "normal" campaigning was. And Perot's approach was so in tune with his assaults on wasteful government spending that he appeared to be setting the right example of how to run for President without spending exorbitant sums. Perot's political instincts were probably correct when he refused a Rollins-recommended campaign that would have cost $147 million. In view of Perot's military...
...solid number, but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the sound track to the film Dead Man Walking. Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker Smile sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo (Pearl Jam worked with Young on his 1995 album, Mirror Ball); it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine article. Let's hope this is just a brief detour and that the next time out, Pearl Jam will find...
...Atlanta games deprived the TV audience of glorious uncertainty [PUBLIC EYE, Aug. 5]. Indeed, to tune in to the Summer Olympics was to confront images of prerecorded events decorated with music, slow-motion sequences and never-ending commercials. The spirit of the Games turned into a sentimental display of American athletic superiority. RAYMOND ROUBENI New York City...