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Last week, he made his first appearance in Manhattan, where his four scheduled performances in Madison Square Garden drew some 80,000 fans and a gate of more than $500,000. If he sang like yesterday, Elvis looked like Mr. Tomorrow in a white cape and jumpsuit, covered throughout the concert by a blinding fusillade of strobe lights. He had lost none of his sexual, feline grace, and he still commanded an ear-shattering chorus of screams every time he tossed his head...
...routine evolved into the ritual that is now familiar to millions of viewers: an ever more outrageously garbed Doc leading the band through the opening theme, then turning to await the gibes. "That looks like Roddy McDowall's diving-board cover," Carson will say of a white jumpsuit trimmed in rhinestones. Or, of a suede and satin set of Western threads, "I wouldn't wear that to fondle Randolph Scott's saddle horn...
...nibble at hams decorated to resemble Indonesian masks, and to dance until 4 a.m. to live rock. Transvestites right out of The Damned, complete with dark red lipstick and 1930s feather boas, shouldered their way slinkily past matrons from Westchester. One unidentified chap wore a beige net jumpsuit with nothing on underneath, and a woman in gray velvet knickers pulled her off-the-shoulder blouse well below her bosom, while photographers immortalized the view...
...general, are young: 5,500 are between 17 and 22, and every one of them is wholesome. Their uniforms are designed with all the come-hither appeal of cassocks; one monorail pilot was grounded briefly on opening day because her black bikini panties showed through her lime-green jumpsuit. Boys must be shorthaired, and girls are required to keep makeup at a minimum. Good looks obviously counted when it came to hiring; largely because of that criterion, Disney rejected nine applicants for every one it hired. Once on the payroll, the kids were "Disneyized" at Disney World University, where rose...
...Promptly, Mrs. Ross set up shop in a corner of her husband's electronics factory, is currently selling close to 500 belts a week through East Coast boutiques and Manhattan's Bloomingdale's. Socialite Ethel Scull buckled one over a black-jersey jumpsuit, appeared at a black-tie party looking less bonny than Clyde; Model Carole Mallory wore hers to an art auction and was an instant succes fou-she got immediate attention from the security guards...