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...birth of Saint Jimmy, Punk Martyr. His life and death have inspired films (September 30, 1955), plays (Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) and dozens of songs. Visits to Dean's Fairmount gravesite have become as much a part of celebrity mythology as trips to Graceland or Jim Morrison's plot in Paris' Pere-Lachaise cemetery. Next year there will be a big-time Hollywood biopic; every male star under 30 pines to play the lead...
...Elvis. The King is not dead -- we know that from reading Weekly World News -- but soon he will live, and sing, on the CD-ROM Virtual Graceland. Due out this summer, the Crunch Media disk allows users to roam freely through Presley's haunted mansion, room by room, in 360 degrees shots. Wander into the TV room and play Elvis' hits on his personal phonograph. Noodle on Elvis' piano, strum his guitar, open drawers by clicking on them. Just don't try peeking into Elvis' medicine chest; the bathroom is not open to the public...
Serious connoisseurs of the surrealistically kitschy visit Graceland Wedding Chapel, where Norm Jones, the Elvis impersonator in residence, is both pleased and bewildered by the sudden popularity of the wedding ceremonies he performs for $250. Heavy-metal star Jon Bon Jovi got married there in 1989; Phil Joanou, director of the U2's concert film Rattle and Hum, was not only married at the Graceland Chapel but played a tape of his wedding onstage every night of the band's last American tour. In December 1992 three members of Def Leppard showed up at the door, one to get married...
...then there's the room straight out of Graceland...
...soul brother, around New York City -- brunch at the Four Seasons, dinner at Lutece, introducing him to Henry Kissinger at the Century -- and inviting him to write a monthly column for Harper's. It's hard to imagine anything more likely to have sent the King screaming back to Graceland...