Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Memphis? You came to see Elvis?" In the South, Elvis' memory sometimes seems so palpable that people act as if he still exists. We didn't see Elvis' former home. We saw Elvis. Dead 15 years, Elvis lives, if only as a cultural detail.
At the risk of being unbearably realistic, I must tell you that Elvis is really dead, the sky is not falling, the earth is not flat, and the fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves.
But what's more. the characters annoy the viewer to the point of nausea. Chanticleer comes across as a fowl impersonation of Elvis Presley. Even his nickname is "The King". There is a ditzy Betty Boop love interest, and there is the smutty agent--the movie's only redeeming aspect...
Webber and Rice's musical rendition of this biblical story is remarkable. From a French-sounding "Those Canaan days, we used to know, where have ze gone, where did ze go." to the rhythmic calypso of "Oh no, not he, how you cahn acuze heem eez a meestarie, save him...
Clinton, whose nickname is Elvis, was asked by two talk show hosts to sing "Don't Be Cruel." Later, television interviewer Charlie Rose asked Clinton to do his best Elvis Presley impersonation.