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Searching For Elvis

In 1968, when Stanley Booth sought out the King, Elvis was a husband and father, his pelvis calmer, and sideburns shorter—but he found absolutely no change of heart.

By Stanley Booth

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Vicodin, My Vicodin

By Tom Chiarella

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The Day the World Was Saved

My Life As a Page Six Snoop

By Tony Schwartz

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The Doughnut that Saved Las Vegas

By Martha Sherrill

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Blondie’s Dark Roots

By Mim Udovitch

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My Mother’s Mink Coat, By Nora Ephron

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The Most Famous American Paparazzo

By Bruce Jay Friedman

"Talk Dirty To Me": A Bedroom Challenge

By Daniel Duane

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raging bull 1980
director martin scorsese
united artists
usa
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biopic
drama

An Estimation of Peers: Scorsese and Coppola

By Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola

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Bruce Willis Has Figured a Few Things Out

By Bruce Willis

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The Lies That Bind

By Robert Huber

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the big chill 1983
director lawrence kasdan
columbia
usa
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comedy
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William Hurt, a Sensitive Leading Man of the '80s

'Men Who Are Good With Their Hands'

By Terry McMillan

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'The Thief,' By Walter Mosley

By Walter Mosley

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The Autumn of the Age of Jabbar

By David Bradley

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Martin Luther King Jr., American Preacher

By David Halberstam

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Peter Bogdanovich on the Death of the Teenage Star

By Peter Bogdanovich

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Michael May Had It All. But He Wanted to See.

By Robert Kurson

eve and duchamp

The Chess Player Stripped Bare

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On The Road With The Big Red Dirigible

By Michael Paterniti

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The Shopping Center, By Joan Didion

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Serve Your Apple Pie With a Block of Good Cheddar

By M.F.K. Fisher

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Being Max Cleland

By Charles Bowden

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Why Men Love War

By William Broyles and Jr.

Michael Corleone, Role Model

By David Thomson

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sting
dune 1984
director david lynch
universal
usa
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The Man Who Could Not Be Touched

By Marcelle Clements

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Joe DiMaggio and the Silent Season of a Hero

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david byrne
true stories 1986
director david byrne
warner bros
usa
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drama

The Enduring, Alien Brilliance of David Byrne

By James Kaplan

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The Last Revelations at Waco

By Ivan Solotaroff

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Ralph Ellison Remembers The Golden Age of Jazz

By Ralph Ellison

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ciao manhattan 1972
director john palmer david weisman
court productions
usa
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Why So Many of Andy Warhol’s Factory Stars Died

By Dotson Rader

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The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy

By Aaron Latham

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The Goalie Who Faced Pablo Escobar's Empire

By James Reston Jr.