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Mattoon Thursday, January 14, 1999 5 nuni Film panel names nominees for 50 greatest actors of all time LOS ANGELES (AP) Undaunted by criticism of its top 100 motion pictures list last year, the American Film Institute is picking the 50 greatest American film legends of the 20th Century. Humphrey Bogart, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Rita Hayworth and Spencer Tracy were obvious candidates on the list of 500 nominees, which seemed to include everyone who ever starred in a movie. Ronald Reagan is there, too. And Will George Raft and The Three Stooges. 'This celebration of legends will no doubt gener ate a great deal of discussion and controversy.

Someone will find fault," AFI chairman Tom Pollock said Tuesday. By design, current box office stars like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, John Travolta, Harrison Ford and Susan Sarandon are missing from the list AFI defined "American screen an actor with a significant screen presence in American movies whose screen debut occurred prior to 195 1 or whose debut occurred after 1950 but whose death marked a completed body of work-That allowed inclusion of James Dean, Gr ace Kelly. John Belushi, Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, Sal Mineo, Anthony Perkins, John Houseman and others, even Divine. "It's always difficult to eliminate, but we feel very comfortable with this list. It really is all encompassing," AFI director and chief executi ve officer Jean Picker-Firstenberg said.

Jurors were asked to consider five criteria: star quality (charisma and presence), craft (ability to embody distinctly different characters), legacy (body of work left behind), popularity (public followr ing over time) and historical context. AFI archivists compiled the list of 250 actors and 250 actresses on the ballot, which were sent Tuesday and must be returned ih two weeks. Write-ins were encouraged. More than 1,500 film industry professionals, including historians, archivists and writers got ballots. As leaders of the nation, Pollock said, President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were also invited to participate.

The 25 top actors and 25 top actresses will be'an-nounced by 50 movie stars during a June CBS-TV special "AFI's 100 Years 100 Stars." (111.) Journal Gazette Second volume puts the fall of a legend in its full, tragic context -Ptacal 1 y4 I Place To tf -MV To I Party! WSjJO lightening context, facilitated by Guralnick's encyclopedic understanding of rhythm and blues displayed in four previous books and many by his fine writing, and by hundreds of inter Effingham, IL 1-70 41-57 (Exit 159) Adj. to Best Western Raintree Inn day he died of being alone and deserted," Guralnick said in a recent interview at his home in this rural community north of Boston. As far back as his Army days, Elvis was taking the drugs he used to alter his body clock until it quit on him in 1977 at age 42. Guralnick shows Elvis' wide range of music and emotions, such as his pain over those lousy songs from his mostly miserable 1960s movie musicals, his highs from giving his all to the Swedish hymn "How Great Thou Art" and then quickly turning to a playful version of the rowdy tune "Down in the Alley." Guralnick offers an Elvis who can handle 23 meticulous takes of WEST NEWBURY, Mass. (AP) Peter Guralnick has found Elvis.

The writer details his discovery in "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley," the continuation of his highly regarded "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise" of Elvis Presley," published four years ago. "Careless Love" is the darker, largely Las Vegas, side of the story, the one in which a lord of popular music perhaps only Sinatra and the Beatles share his sovereignty begins the long slide after the death of his mother. The second volume, like the first, draws its strength from en- "In the Ghetto" and then go on a private binge of sorrow at home, listening repeatedly to a Charles Boyer recording of the lachrymose "Softly As I Leave You." And the writer gives us an Elvis not the way he's known to his fans, but through the whipping boys who made up his entourage and lived with him many years before turning against him. And we learn a good deal more from the women he "dated" often by cuddling up in pajamas with them and talking. "Priscilla (Elvis', wife) is one of the many women who say that people couldn't have imagined the other side ofhim, so needy and vulnerable," Guralnick said.

ankles and a halo of vomit about his head. Through vast research, Guralnick gives us an Elvis few saw, a man of generally uncommon politeness who could grow suddenly vicious, a man uncommonly adored but ever lonely, a man who sang silly songs at times but an artist uncommonly attuned to the soul of rhythm and blues, gospel and ballads. "Careless Love" (Little Brown 776 pages, $27.95) opens with Elvis in the Army in 1958, and already worried about whether his other great love, his fans, would stay true to him. "He had nightmares until the "Twong Gang" Presley "Tripsphere" views conducted over 11 years. Guralnick's biography puts in full, tragic context the final years of a life that ended on the floor of Elvis' bathroom at Graceland, with his gold pajamas around his "SowywBref." iiiuiiiimiiiiiiiiiir: $4 OO Alt Shows Before 6 Dm visit our website at www.kerasotes.com Fla.

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