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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...
...show will continue every Saturday, with Joiner broadcasting alone between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., treating listeners to the likes of Patty Loveless, Iris DeMent, Ralph Stanley, Jim & Jesse and D.L. Menard...
Finally, we have a portrait gallery of other people who mattered, remembrances of favorites who died in 2002 and an essay by Jim Poniewozik on the Year in Culture. Eminem, take heart: there's always next year to be a contender for Person of the Year...
Cheney occupied the right edge of the spectrum in the first bUsh Administration too. nAtional Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, President Bush, Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell and sEcretary Of State Jim Baker all viewed Cheney as the Administration's unreconstructed cold warrior at a time when the cold war was coming to an end. Cheney would voice his opinions internally - even if he was usually overruled - but the debate stopped there...
Played with thoughtful control by Christopher Plummer, Ralph is not a man who leaps into malice; he muses his way toward it, as befits a figure whose destructive web spans decades. This great performance is wonderfully supported by a full complement of England's best character men (among them Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay and Edward...