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...name of this tenacious corporation, not coincidentally, is Elvis Presley Enterprises. It controls much of the half-billion-dollar global Elvis industry, strictly limiting the world's supply of singing hound-dog dolls, Heartbreak Hotel matchboxes, leather-jacketed teddy bears and pink Cadillac key chains--not to mention the Graceland mansion in Memphis, headwaters of all things Elvis. As that city licks its lips in anticipation of the 75,000 free-spending fans who are expected for the 20th anniversary of the King's death on Aug. 16, Elvis Presley Enterprises reigns supreme as the guardian, keeper and main arbiter...
Versace drew from varied universes in his acquaintances too. His undepletable pool of celebrity friends included everyone from choreographer Maurice Bejart to Princess Diana (with whom he spoke once a week), from Madonna to Lisa Marie Presley. A number of years ago he happily accepted a lunch invitation from Mike Tyson, a longtime Versace fan. At his dinner parties he often liked to have fun with seating arrangements, once placing Harper's Bazaar editor Liz Tilberis next to a Milanese soccer goalie...
MUSIC: "With 77 newly released tracks," writes TIME's Richard Corliss, "RCA?s four-CD set 'Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music' means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley?s image and re-establish him as a powerful, pioneering vocalist." Corliss is happy to report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer...
...King is dead, but the parties live on. Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, and now, 20 years later, it seems like every institution in Memphis, Tenn., from Graceland to Presley's old karate school, is playing host to memorial events. Some 50,000 fans are expected to descend on the city for Elvis Week, including a sizable number of fan-club presidents, for whom special events are planned...
...grave site (they're free, but they're at 6) Even if you can't make it to Memphis, you can still participate. A Blue Suede Shoes ballet, performed by the Cleveland San Jose Ballet, is touring the country, and rca is releasing the four-volume Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music, which contains 100 recordings, 77 of them previously unreleased, including Elvis' version of Blowin' in the Wind...