Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” is a movie that shows like no other our national descent into farce and the survival of the American Dream.

The mummies of Egypt were never so dehumanized as Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile” has been crassly commercialized.

In ages past, we could make literature, propaganda, and art out of butchering history. But now we can make a joke of it.