European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews the ultimate Etves by Patricia Pierce Simon amp schuster. When Pierce answers her Telephone the voice on the other end often has a familiar Memphis drawl. A fall of these Elvis impersonators Are calling me and its to you Back a bit because a lot of them sound exactly like him. Its sort of fun a she said with a laugh. A up to a  course when you write a Book called the ultimate Elvis you have to expect a hunk a hunk a Crank Calls. Pierces Book includes a Day by Day account of Presley a life . A sept. 9,1955 Elvis gave a concert in Mccomb miss., and his family moved to a rented House on get Well  As Well As such ephemera As the phone numbers of his various Homes a list of his nicknames from mamas boy to the King and the women in Elvis life listed alphabetically from a Walden Ginger a to a a Zehntbauer  a. / a although 1956 was the year that saw Elvis become a National phenomenon Pierce says her research Points to 1953 As the Pivotal year in Presley a life. A in 1953, two things happen a to Elvis she explained. A thank Williams Dies and his two favorite cartoon characters Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel jr., Are taken off the stands. He realizes a us of even famous people  in three months he lost one of his heroes and he lost his dual personality comic Book characters that he adored so much. It devastated  a Larry Nager commercial Appeal done task forever my love affair with Elvis by Joyce Bova Kensington publishing corp. Bova says she met the King in Las vegas in 1969 a one of his aides saw her thought she was his Type and brought her backstage Ltd and shortly thereafter they began a three year affair. She says they met when they could either at Graceland at one of his performance stops or in Washington Between his touring and her work As an aide for the House armed services committee. But As Presley became increasingly reliant on drugs and got her hooked on sleeping pills As Well the relationship faltered she says. Bova became pregnant had an abortion and eventually left him she says. A that was the hardest thing a she says now. A i loved him i wanted to help him but i  Jean Marbella Baltimore Sun Boulevard off broken dreams the life times and legend off James Dean by Paul Alexander Viking. Like Marilyn Monroe Dean is the kind of movie Star whose legend overshadows questions of Talent. If it were possible to judge him objectively he might be Little More than an historical footnote to the acting styles of Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift both of whom he idolized. Although one cannot really know there Are few signs in the three performances he left us of a comparable subtlety flexibility or capacity for growth. Death May have done him a favor for Brando ended up old and fat and Clift was disfigured in an Auto wreck he had the misfortune to survive. Deans own smash up on sept. 30,1955, froze his Beauty in celluloid Amber forever and apotheosis de a touching but limited actor into the ultimate icon of tormented youth. If you were a mid-�?T50s teenager watching him for the first time in rebel without a cause or giant you saw a youth who perfectly incarnated your Blob by inchoate discontents a but who was already Stone cold dead. Alexander shows Jimmy wrestling with his Norman Rockwell origins Back on the farm in Fairmount ind. He tries to drum up pathos As this a de Facto orphan strains to win his cold disapproving fathers love just like Cal in East of Eden. A Peter Matthews London observer two Steps ahead off the thought police by John Leo Simon amp schuster. Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happl Ness by Peggy Noonan random House. Both authors have compassionate instincts but can to Bear Liberal piety. Both travel in sophisticated circles but write for a general audience. Both   new York times list hardback Elvis Presley plays for . Blues cast in 1960. Catholic and live in Manhattan a details i mention because the authors do and because it obviously affects their worldviews. But their books differ in one significant Way. Leos collection of columns from . News amp world report is proof that sane reasonable people still exist and have a place in National journalism. Noonan a incoherent rambling and self indulgent monologue proves that Book publishers Are so hassled and understaffed that  release pure nonsense As Long As the writer is relatively famous. Noonan was a Star speech writer for presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush a John Allison Pittsburgh Post Gazette the struggle for Russia by Boris Yeltsin translated from the russian try Catherine a. Fitzpatrick Belka publishing  books. This is a surprisingly candid Book a far More revealing for example than the pseudo memoirs produced by Yeltsin a rival Mikhail Gorbachev. We learn for instance that before heading to the Crimea for his fateful vacation of August 1991, Gorbachev told Yeltsin he planned to dismiss Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov internal affairs minister Boris Pugo and prime minister Valentin Pavlov. The conversation it emerged was recorded by the Kab. It seems Likely that it prompted the three men to launch the coup a few weeks later. A Scott Shane Baltimore Sun Barbara Bush a Memoir by Barbara Bush Scribner a. With no help from her dog Millie she say Bush has written her biography. Quot. More than a half million copies of this Book quietly appeared in bookstores around the country last week reflecting Scribner a expectations that it will outdo Millie s Book the 1990 Best seller dictated by the Bush family Pooch to Barbara she says when she was first lady. Though there Are few surprises a Memoir is no dog of a Book. It is a Lively and partisan recollection of a a life of privilege a most of it spent in George Bush a Shadow a throughout the nearly 50 years of their peripatetic marriage. Barbara Bush expresses doubts  Hills veracity during hearings on the supreme court nomination of Clarence Thomas. A the question is a she says she wrote in her diary on oct 11,1991, a is this woman telling the truth it is Clarences word against Anita Hills. I do not mean to sit in judgment but i will never believe that she a Yale Law school graduate a woman of the �?T80s, would put up with harassment for one moment much less follow the harasser from Job to  of Hillary Rodham Clinton Bush writes she a is certainly very much a part of her husbands decision making process. She seems much the stronger of the two. Does it make him seem weaker i am afraid that when problems or controversy occur and they will the Finger will be pointed at  a Washington pos fiction 1 debt of Honor by Tom Clancy last week 1 weeks on list 2 2 the Celet Fine prophecy by James Redfield last week 3 weeks on list 28 3 the Catt by Danielle steel last week 2 weeks on list 7 4 Tho chamber by John Grisham last week 4 weeks on list 14 5 the Bridges of Cadlaon county by Robert James Walter last week 6 a weeks on list 109 i politically Correct bedtime stories by James finn gamer last week 5 weeks on list 21 7 until you by Judith Mcnaught last week 7 weeks on list 4 i a son of the circus by John Irving fast week 10 weeks on list 2 b Disney the Don King adapted by Don Ferguson last week 8 weeks on a a a. List 6 a a a a a a. 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Thing enterprises last week 3 weeks on list 20 4 smart exercise by Covert Bailey first week on list paperback fiction 1 Forrest Gump by Winston Groom weeks on list 8 2 without remorse by Tom Clancy weeks on list 1 i 3 Nightmare and orams Catesby Stephen King weeks on list 4 4 Uke Waler Tor chocolate by Laura Esquivel weeks on list 4 5 Silra s Sanaa at seeker by Peter Hoeg weeks on list 2 it the let Pihu Newt by e. Annie Proux weeks on list 13 7 the Clell by John Grisham weeks on list 30. S gone hot net forgotten by Philip Margolin weeks on list 3 s Clear and present Ganger by Tom Clancy weeks on list 22 Ida Cess of need by Michael Crichton writing As Jeffrey Hudson weeks on list 12 a a ,. 11 the Wyndham legacy by Catherine Coulter weeks on list 3 12 Thunder Pom by Wjk Higgins weeks on list 2 13 pet Mem by Judah Michael weeks on list 7 14 a simple plan by Scott Smith weeks on list 7 15 Abs Tereby harm by Cormac Mccarthy weeks on hot 9 nonfiction 1 Cara of by sad by Thomas Moore weeks on list 35 2 the Road late Tkany by m. Scott Peck weeks on hot 566 3 Yon baking my by am Rule weeks on list 2 4 mama make up Horbund by Bailey while weeks on hot 19 -5 i knew Why me caged bad Lings by Maya an Dou weeks on list 82 b where Angam waft by Joan Wester Anderson weeks on list 35 t Girt. Mier rapid by Susanna Kaysen weeks on hot w g listening my Mzyk by Peter 0. 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