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Their differences from Elvis (more literate and lovable, less slick and racially ambiguous) were what made their similarities with Elvis (purveyors of courtship music for teen-agers, a scandal to grown-ups) work.
"He did something last night that grown-ups do sometimes that show you really, really care about someone."
A Courtney who told Premiere this fall: "The welcome that I get from grown-ups in the film industry is so nice.
I suspect that what Britten is known for most of all is A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; but perhaps music for children does not count for much in dictionaries for grown-ups.
He catches Abbie Hoffman acting out for the camera--tongue protruding, middle finger in the air, "fuck" emblazoned on his forehead--but when you look at Hoffman's eyes you see no joy, no mirth, no childish glee at pissing off the grown-ups.