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We don't know about Elvis, but Walter Mitty lives. You can find him poised atop a 7-ft. platform swinging a big stick at a muscle-bound giant with a name like Laser or Nitro. Or swooping through the air on a bungee cord 15 ft. above the ground...
In 1983 Carr asked his buddy Johnny Ferraro, a one-time Elvis impersonator and a relentless promoter, to help him turn the games into a charity benefit to raise money for a local youth center. When 3,000 people showed up for the event, Ferraro recognized the mass-appeal potential...
Behind the scenes, a delighted Ferraro has trimmed his sideburns and got out of the Elvis business so that he can devote all his energy to Gladiators. "Danny and me have invented the nuclear bomb," he says. "And now it's exploding."
This introduction, brash enough to cause riots, was tempered by the smooth melodies of Elvis Costello's "Veronica," performed by Daniel Brotman and Gordon Woodward.
Audiences will also be treated to an appearance by Elvis, or at least an Elvis ghost impersonator, according to Rossetti. In fact, the Elvis impersonator is one of the show's main characters.