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THE WRITE STUFF
Tommy Dorsey: Livin'in a Great Big Way
(Da Capo, $18.95)
Few musicians
evoke the Big
Band era more than
Tommy Dorsey. With
his soaring trom-
bone playing and
hit tunes, he left an
indelible mark on
American culture,
yet few know that off
stage, Dorsey's per-
sonal life was as fas-
cinating as the music
he created on stage.
A man driven by his
passion for women
and drink as much
as for music, Dorsey
was a perfectionist
who lived on over-
load. Peter Levinson's bio, drawn on exhaustive new
research and scores of interviews with those who
knew Dorsey best, takes us center stage and behind
the scenes, toppling the swing era's icon sweet and
mellow image and replacing it with a more truthful,
multi-faceted portrait of a man of extreme excess.
All the high and low notes Dorsey achieved are here.
Play on!
Graceland: An Interactive Pop-Up Tour
(Quirk Books, $40)
We
thought we
had seen it all.
Until now. Published
in cooperation with
and officially licensed
by Elvis Presley
Enterprises (and, of
course, with a fore-
word by the former
Mrs., Priscilla), Grace-
land takes readers on
a fully-illustrated tour
of one ofthe world's
most fashionable tourist destinations. Your eyes
will pop almost as easily as the pop-ups themselves
-there are nine such spreads, dedicated to the more
popular aspects of Elvis' former mansion, including
the Television Room, Music Room, Trophy Room,
Kitchen and the Mediation Garden. Cute meets
kitsch here; readers can flip through a photo album,
browse Elvis' record collection, change channels on
the TV or peek inside the fridge. (We'll leave it up
to your overactive imaginations on what you'll find
inside.) Elvis devotees will rejoice; others will be bet-
ter off popping the $40 back into their wallets.
FOR THE RECORD
A Chorus Line (Masterworks Broadway)
It
was, and remains, one singular sensation. A
Chorus Line MMMMMBBSMMBM
changed the face
of American musi-
cal theater, with an
urbane book by Nick
Dante and James
Kirkwood and so-
phisticated yet obvi-
ous lyrics and music
by Ed Kleban and
Marvin Hamlisch.
The Pulitzer prize-
winningmusical has
been resurrected in
Broadway and on CD ... And we can't wonder why.
Those familiar with the original cast recording will
cringe at the flatness ofthe "new" recording, one
that's simultaneously intrusive on the memory and
superfluous in any collection. Is this what Baayork
Lee did for love?
DVD QUICK PICKS
The Jayne Mansf ield Collection (Fox
Home Video)
M
arilyn was bigger. Mamie was a bust. Then
there was
Jayne. Known for
her platinum hair,
generous figure
and limited tal-
ents, Jayne Mans-
field's tragic death
(in a car crash at
34 in 1967) elevat-
ed her to "quasi
legend" level. Still,
her body of work
was impressive;
the three flicks in
this collection un-
derscore a screen
presence as brash
as it was brassy. The best ofthe lot is The Girl Can't
Help It , the 1956 film that's often called the best
rock 'n roll film ever made. This spoof of musicals
and gangster films boasts sparkling performances
by Julie London, Ray Anthony, Abbey Lincoln, Little
Richard, Fats Domino and The Platters.The worst is
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw , whose title tells it all.
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audiences just
as he draws an eye-
popping stare from
"the very model of
a modern Major-
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Penzance. *
Think what W S. Gilbert and
Arthur Sullivan could have
done with thespians of the
rank ofMoses and Jerome Horwitz
and their colleague LouisFeinberg.
Perhaps you know them better as
Moe, Larry and Curly?
"It will be a lot more like The Three
Stooges than you might expect ,"
Barnstable High School Drama
L Coach John Sullivan said of
» his new production of Gilbert
jp and Sullivan 's The Pirates
of Penzance , or The Slave of
Duty.
v In apress statement , Sullivan said he won't
treat the 127-year-old comic opera as a museum
piece.
"Thiswon't be your mother'sor in some casesyour great-
»
great-great-great grandmother 's
Pirates of Penzance ," he declared.
If the Pirate King reminds you of
Johnny Depp's Caribbean corsair, .
so much the better. uR
All eyes will be on the 31-foot pirate \\
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flj ship with its full crew of brigands.
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I Pirates opens tonight at 7in the BHS Performing
\M Arts Center on West Main Street in Hyannis. with
additional performances Nov. 18, 24 and 26 at 7
p.m. and Nov. 19 and 20 at 2 p.m. For tickets
^^*
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