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ELVIS: That's the Way It Is: Jim Aubrey (former CBS executive, purported model for the most recent Jackie Susann novel) was having a bad year of it at MGM. Antonioni's Zabriskie Point had fizzled out. The Strawberry Statement hadn't caught on. Stanley Sweetheart hadn't even been...
Three months later one could say it. It didn't work. Elvis gives us an hour of Elvis in rehearsal, and the International in preparation, and then an other hour of Elvis performing before a tiered dining room of 2000 jeweled and mantanned manikins, a scene worthy of Fellini's...
Unwittingly, however, Elvis is also a telling documentary about the packaging of the night club "artist" for cinematic consumption. When Peter Watkins made a film called Privilege, the story of the rise of a British rock idol, a few years ago, he stole directly from an American short called lonely...
We never see much of what should have gone into the film. Elvis manager, Colonel Parker, never appears. Elvis' rehearsals are staged (There is none of the drama or professionalism ? saw in Pennchaker's recent study of the recording of the Broadway cast album of Company ) and Elvis' actual performance...
Instead, the film offers a selfreflective study of how a performer operates when conscious that his every move is being recorded for the fans. Elvis mugs shamelessly, pathetically. He points to one of his back-up men and laughs. "You can't use those words, man. They'll put an...