Costello's Show is a Spectacle here in NYC
My kids and I stumbled across a massive display of posters advertising Elvis Costello's Sundance show "Spectacle," right in the heart of the Times Square subway station a week or so ago. There's at least 15 large posters in a row, so massive that I came up the stairs and stopped short in my tracks it was so impressive...and as of yesterday, it was still there. Wow. Then today, I gasped as I was reading the New York Times, flipped a page on the A section, and came across a full color full back page ad for tonight's episode. Double Wow!
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posted by Mark Satlof @ 2:09 PM
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Spectacle is a very good program indeed -insightful, funny, fun, smart. I think people are hungering after intelligent, long-form interviews, after years of fast, snappity-snap "clips" that masquerade as real journalism. Elvis is such a great host: warm, curious, creative, probing where necesary. It's so encouraging to see this kind of program excel.
(Also: Spectacle introduced my old mum to the wonder that is Elvis! How's that for crossover appeal?!)
It was up in Times Square as of yesterday too.
The first Springsteen episode was enlightening indeed. I never knew he wrote "Hungry Heart" with the Ramones in mind. And the closing number with Elvis and Bruce doing the Sam & Dave classic "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" gave me chills.
To watch Spectacle is to view pop music history as it happpens.
Can't wait for part two!
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