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In a phone conversation from somewhere in southern France, Elvis Costello displays no trace of his long-held reputation as the angry intellectual. On the subject of his near-obsessive touring the last three years and the handful of cameo film appearances he's made lately, he's more like a gleeful professor. Costello is taking a couple days out to make an appearance in a small French film, the nature of which would take too long to explain, he says, almost apologetically. Costello earned a smart-mouth reputation during the '80s, when the Brits stuck it to the Americans with a second invasion led by witty boys like Costello and the Clash. But where is this feisty performer who's so difficult with media? In two interviews with the chatty and articulate 44-year-old Costello in the past four months, he's had the warmth of an English tea cozy. Could it be that Costello has found solace in music and in mid-life?
"It's been a busy sort of time since we spoke last," he says, cheerfully. "I've been doing all this touring, and I've recorded a couple of things that are coming out in movies, which are taking me into a completely different world.
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