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...Elvismania transcends the usual devotion to a white-hot celebrity, even one who has died before his time. Rudolph Valentino, Will Rogers, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Bob Marley - these stars may have left indelible niches in the hearts of their fans, but few built shrines to them. Rumors of their survival rarely blossomed into testimony of posthumous visitations. Nor did their homes become cathedral theme parks. Yet each year Graceland, Presley's residence in Memphis, welcomes more than half a million Elvisitors, and many are true believers: call them Presleyterians. Like the Christian liturgical calendar...
...coincidence that Despair is booming at this particular moment. Kurt Barnard, a retail consultant in Upper Montclair, N.J., says, "Anytime consumers see an opportunity to get even with corporate America, they'll do it." But Despair is on to some fundamental, painful truths. Gene Hendrix, a lecturer on organization design at San Francisco State University, starts every class with a discussion of a different Despair poster. "What I'm trying to get students to do," he says, "is deal with corporations the way they...
...great sound tracks of the rock-'n'-roll era could not be more different musically. On Fever, the Bee Gees stole vocals from the Chipmunks and beats from the Casablanca records catalog to define disco, while on Purple Rain Prince stole moves from James Brown and licks from Jimi Hendrix to define himself. Yet both albums, and the movies that spawned them, are about the same thing: talent overcoming apathy to talent. Tony Manero wants to rule the world's dance floor; Prince wants to rock it. Ambition is a subject to which every artist can relate...
...bulk of the ITMFG series is available, with a little sleuthing, at specialized video stores, so read on even if you?re not near Manhattan. (And be sure to read Grady Hendrix?s program notes, each one a supercharged essay on the film in question.) But at a time when most U.S. Chinatown theaters have closed, it?s worth seeing these films on the big screen, with an audience juiced for a communal thrill. That?s the best way to rekindle the grand old days of Hong Kong horror...
...characters? fevered behavior: compositions architectural in their framing; a palette that plays the garish red against a night of black and dark blue. But his real art is in dragging the viewer not only into the sick action but into the steaming souls of villain and victim. As Hendrix writes: ?This is a movie that spirals down and down until it passes the point of no return. And then it doesn?t. (The) characters, traumatized by their very existence, run around sweating and crying out their pain, looking for all the world like candles melting down to a wick...