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Today is Elvis’s birthday. Not my Elvis, but the Graceland Elvis. I’m not a fan. I know this only because, and I’m not ashamed to admit it, I finally found a copy of “D.C. Cab” on DVD. Okay, maybe I’m a little ashamed to admit it. Please please please don’t go out and find this on my recommendation; it’s probably an acquired taste. But there are a few lines in it that have stuck with me forever, most of them delivered by Gary Busey. (Including, “I don’t work January the 8th, ’cause it’s Elvis’ birthday.”) We didn’t realize it at the time, but in retrospect it is clear: he wasn’t acting.