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...fought, had explicit sex and tangled with white cops, yet didn't get killed for it by the end of the movie. Blaxploitation's heroes, men and women, had attitude and style and were true to the experience of black moviegoers. Roundtree's John Shaft, as Isaac Hayes sang, was "the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks"--but couldn't hail a cab in Manhattan. "We knew him," Samuel L. Jackson remembers. "We felt...
...ardent, the living death of Elvis' sad decline might have supplied paradoxical proof of supernatural powers, but the strongest evidence of the King's capacity to outwit the Grim Reaper lies in Elvis' art itself. He outwitted--outlived--the heartbreak he sang about even as he sang about it. Like Marlon Brando, his favorite actor and another virtuoso of feline virility, the King simultaneously performed and watched himself perform. The emotions he belted out never took him in. His sobs are more like a parody of sobs. Play I Want You, I Need You, I Love You, and listen...
...ardent, the living death of Elvis' sad decline might have supplied paradoxical proof of supernatural powers, but the strongest evidence of the King's capacity to outwit the Grim Reaper lies in Elvis' art itself. He outwitted - outlived - the heartbreak he sang about even as he sang about it. Like Marlon Brando, his favorite actor and another virtuoso of feline virility, the King simultaneously performed and watched himself perform. The emotions he belted out never took him in. His sobs are more like a parody of sobs. Play I Want You, I Need You, I Love You, and listen...
...From the beginning, Jerry Lee was an apostle, an addict to music: inhaling all kinds, then reproducing and blending it on the family piano, where he would do his little boogie-woogie every day. As Tosches writes: "The child sang in church, and he sang along with his daddy's old records, and he sang along with the children of the black sharecroppers who lived nearby. And sometimes, when he was singing by himself, thinking that no one could hear him, he mixed it all together. ... Whatever he heard, he swallowed it, then he spat it out on that...
...retort seemed to make commercial sense in 1956, when some of the best rockers were singer-pianists: Little Richard, Ray Charles and JLL's fellow Louisianans Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Huey "Piano" Smith. If '50s record producers thought they could make a mint with a white kid who sang like a black man, why couldn't a white kid who played like a black...