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But if Haynes wants Velvet Goldmine to be an anthem to the principles Bowie once embodied--the embrace of artifice and the smashing of conventional sexual roles--he also wants to portray the rocker as a hollow opportunist who abandoned glam and bisexuality for the life of a corporate superstar, throwing in his lot with the forces of repression.
There are rock-world observers who never considered Courtney a rebel, who dismissed her as a marginally talented opportunist who married well and whose stock rose precipitously after her husband committed suicide.
And Hollings, who is temperamentally incapable of controlling his tongue, has already called Inglis "a goddamn skunk," "a fraud," "a rascal," "an opportunist," "a hypocrite," and--my favorite--"oozing and goozing."
The releases are the latest in a series of "World According to Gore" faxes that cast the vice-president as a political opportunist.
But you have to admire Merrill's resourcefulness: Any old Alley opportunist can write a novelty Italian song ("That's Amore") or a novelty mambo song ("Papa Loves Mambo"), but to write a novelty song about Italians doing the mambo--that takes guts: