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BUBBA HO-TEP a film by DON COSCARELLI, 2002 (MAGNA PACIFIC DVD)
Twentysomething years ago an amusing little book appeared, Elvis: The Novel. I don’t remember much of it, other than Elvis killing manager Tom Parker, and at one point an overweight Elvis is performing in Las Vegas when a very drunken John Lennon arrives and is appalled by his childhood hero reduced to waddling around singing old hits....
> film/2099/bubba-ho-tep-a-film-by-don-coscarelli-2002-magna-pacific-dvd/
TODAY IN HISTORY: AUGUST 16 1977: The king is gone . . .
John Lennon was only half right when, on being told that Elvis Presley had died, said, "Elvis died when he went into the army".
In part that was true: before his posting to Germany Elvis was the archetype for rock'n'roll; after the songs got soft and the Hollywood movies rolled out with increasingly dreary predictability....
> culturalelsewhere/2512/today-in-history-august-16-1977-the-king-is-gone/
Elvis Presley, The Memphis Record (1969)
The consensus on Elvis Presley's genius among rock critics settles on two periods: his Sun Studio days in the mid 50s when he fused black blues and white country, and his famous '68 television special when he appeared wrapped in leathers for a menacing and sweaty performance which proved, despite all evidence to the contrary, that he still...
> essentialelsewhere/808/elvis-presley-the-memphis-record-1969/
