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Meanwhile, back on the screen of the Center Theatre on the very bottommost bit of Washington Street, Elvis continuing to shrink and sing. While, from the screen's bottom left, shots of the International's mammoth kitchens. Great, grotesque hunks of institutional meat. Barrels of dough. Bread for the circus...
A LA RECHERCHE du Elvis perdu: Forgive me, for I am forced to lapse into first person subjective. Not to tell of myself, but because of an incapability of telling of anyone else. Elvis Presley, I had thought, had begun too long ago, over 15 years, close to 20 years...
I came to know Elvis through parody. For which I don't necessarily feel regret. Admitted, I missed the purity of the early Elvis, but the parody, Broadway's Bye, Bye Birdie, was itself fine and gentle and, in the only way then available, even respectful.
Elvis still existed of course. On the periphery. An occasional single. Another film. (In the most recent of which he would play a big city social worker charming his way into the hearts of the ghetto kids and singing nuns.) But meanwhile, we sought out our past in whatever way...
The Elvis renaissance seemed to be a reprieve. Television brought us his special. RCA brought out a few retrospective discs. Las Vegas lured him back to live performance. MGM promised, and has just delivered, its instant replay documentary of his last Las Vegas gig.