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...French Elvises? These were no Graceland imitators born of cheap beer and the American dream. Here was a transcontinental composite--a blend of the uniquely American and the quintessentially French into something entirely new: the Franco-Elvis...
Elvis is alive, well and living in Paris.
...that creative. I might envision one Elvis, on a good day, but I recognize the limits of my own imagination: I knew that the several dozen Elvises before my eyes out-stepped its bounds. This was empirical reality, take it or leave it. All of the passengers behind me were indeed Presley imitators...
'How embarrassing,' I cringed. How terribly humiliating for Americans everywhere that the Elvis Club of Hoboken, or some such place, should go gallivanting through Paris dressed in leather jackets, sporting pompadours and blue suede shoes. I hoped they would not notice that I too was American. I prayed that they...
Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 66 years old this week. Elvis Presley would have turned 60 last week. Here are the "current" ages of some others who went before their time: