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The Memphis blues are over for Dr. George Nichopoulos, 54. As Elvis Presley's physician during the final eleven years of the singer's life, Nichopoulos had been charged with eleven counts of dispensing vast quantities of narcotics, sedatives and amphetamines to Presley and ten other patients. During...
Goldman is particularly acute as he recounts the final decade in Graceland, with its turn-of-the-century whorehouse décor of red plush and smoked mirrors. Elvis subsisted on a diet of charred bacon, mashed potatoes and very sophisticated opiates and uppers. His affairs in shambles, he fired...
But the show had run its course. Elvis was so stoned he could not get to the bathroom at night. He was pinned into bathtowels to keep the sheets clean. When he died of "heart failure" in 1977 at age 42, keeping his insomniac vigil in the reading chair of...
Goldman's arch, stinging overview echos that bitchy comment. All too often, he relies on shallow dazzle and backup effects. His subject is a compelling case history, an exploited talent with a wasted, truncated life. But that is not enough for Goldman. The biographer insists that each kink in...
"He had grown accustomed to taking heavy doses of Pacidyl, Valium, Percodan and Demerol every night. Such heavy downers often caused him to fall asleep in the middle of a sentence or even a meal. One moment he would be sitting at the table, piddling with his mashed potatoes. The...