Word: presley
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...Morrison role, as well as those cartoon ghosts of the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Top Secret! and True Romance. Yet the look stops just short of drop-dead handsome. Its steely seriousness--all that grit and drive with no hint of easy humor--suggests less Elvis Presley than Elvis Stojko. If Kilmer is to execute the actor's equivalent of a quadruple toe loop, it won't be from movie-star grace but from a triumph of the will...
DIED. COLONEL TOM PARKER, 87, Elvis Presley's impresario; of stroke complications; in Las Vegas. The onetime carnival barker discovered Presley in 1955 and then masterminded the King's career while taking oversize percentages for himself. After Presley's death in 1977, his heirs sued Parker, and in 1982 the flashy pitchman relinquished all future income connected with his client. DIED. JULIA BOGGS, 95, party doyenne; in Washington. From the 1940s until 1972, the North Carolina-born Boggs was housekeeping supervisor for the Supreme Court, arranging the Justices' dinners and teas, and later became a behind-the-scenes manager...
Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities. The foster home boy became Our Man in Paris. He took Elvis Presley to the Lido. He asked James Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images of Herbert Hoover were the only thing that kept popping up in front of me." He got to know Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Somerset Maugham, Danny Kaye, Humphrey Bogart. At Buchwald's wedding to Ann McGarry in 1952, Gene Kelly danced with the bride...
...Elvis Presley never made it to university, but now the ivory tower is coming to him. For a growing body of Ph.D.s, Elvis is more than a pop icon--he's a treasure trove of subjects for scholarly research. Beginning Aug. 3, two dozen academics will present papers at the latest international conference on the King, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Vernon Chadwick, the conference director, who has made connections between Elvis' Hawaiian movies and Herman Melville's Polynesian novels, declares, "Within Elvis there is a multiplicity of topics of study." Among the conference's papers...
...years, Amos was the Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. A distinguished scholar of microbiology, Amos did important research in sugar metabolism...