Word: idolization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Unwittingly, however, Elvis is also a telling documentary about the packaging of the night club "artist" for cinematic consumption. When Peter Watkins made a film called Privilege, the story of the rise of a British rock idol, a few years ago, he stole directly from an American short called lonely Boy a brilliant little glimpse of the early Paul Apka surrounded by the demands of the night club world. Elvis has the same look of fictionalized reality...
...Elvis, the painful record of a past master in decline. The real Preslev long ago evaded our generation; like other hoarded treasures of our culture, he was taken from us and reissued by the corporate entertainment industry. And, eager to catch whatever glimpse we could of the fallen idol, we paid for the transformation. As if time is not enough of a danger, we hasten the process of change, we ensure the disappearance of our actual past. Once again they ask us for our appreciation, our money, and, once again, I suppose we'll be only too happy to give...
GEORGE WALLACE. "All energy and strut . . . he has the dingy attractive air of a B-movie idol, the kind who plays a handsome garage attendant . . . He gives little-boy salutes, snapped off at the end, Wash-your-windshield...
Rence, trying to calm herself with a loud piece of Juicy Fruit, was a bit more passionate in her devotion to her idol. She sleeps with a poster of him and, in an effort to make their relationship a bit closer, keeps duplicate diaries and periodically sends Bobby the contents of one. This will keep him informed about her activities, she figures. No, Rence said, Bobby hadn't returned the favor. But she decided that his failure to do so indicated only that he didn't keep a diary...
...group and moved out on her own. With a little help from Albert Grossman, who also manages Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary and The Band, she soon developed into the world's top female rock singer, commanding as much as $50,000 a night. Like her idol Bessie Smith, Janis had a singing style as earthy as a streetwalker. There were myriad subtle ways in which her voice could range from a deep throaty groan to a high tender croon. When she licked into a phrase like "Oh, I'd be so good to ya, babe, yeah...