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...caricature. But the author's attempt, like his earlier Ladies and Gentlemen-Lenny Bruce!!, is filled with portentous speculations and lofty pronouncements about the American Dream and its dreamers. What Goldman does provide, however, is a telephoto focus on life behind the mansion wall of Presley's Graceland. Like the histories of those two other native recluses, Howard Hughes and Hugh Hefner, Presley's private existence was a medley of ritualistic fetishes. The public persona, however, was pure stagecraft...
After Elvis Presley died in August of 1977, there was in the media what could only be described as a massive breach of taste. There were five miles of crowds in Memphis. Tennessee, at Elvis's mansion, Graceland. In Nashville, when Elvis's father died, there were two miles of crowds. His father. His father didn't sing a note in his life. But he sired the King. He had proved that aristocracy could live, even in a place as retrograde as the Memphis of the 1950s...
...anything associated with Elvis has an aura to it. Graceland could practically be a national park for all the people who go through it. His last limousine is now a travelling exhibit. It tours the country, loaded on a trailer, and draws more people than any other automotive mausoleum except for the Bonnie and Clyde death car. It's something of America's new interstate sideshow. It's fitting that the new version of the ghoulish twoheaded fetus in a bottle should be this monstrous automobile. The crowds come from all over to see it and to buy souvenirs...
...words. Elvis who blewup his television with a .38 police chief special because he didn't like the programming. Elvis who didn't live near anybody. The guy who had no peers. By the sixties there wasn't even any competition. Elvis who locked Priscilla away in Graceland until she was old enough to marry him. Why America loves burnouts is a difficult questions. Why he was in his one-man purgatory is anyone's guess. But that's where...
...toxicology study showing traces of at least ten prescription drugs in his body, soon circulated depicting Presley as a medication junkie who had fallen victim to his habit. There was even talk of a "drug trailer" with a live-in nurse on the lush grounds of his Graceland mansion...