Word: presleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most conspicuous U.S. body manipulator, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, says Birdwhistell, "is most successful with the two-to-four-year-olds, and 12-to-14-year-olds, because he joins them in a particular kind of mockery of serious adulthood. Presley's wiggles seem almost an imitation of an imitation of being sexy. That's why so many in the audience laugh and puritans react so violently. Presley is making a mockery of something they regard seriously...
Loving You (Paramount) is an authorized pseudo biography of the professional career of Elvis Presley. The only substantial departure from fact is that the movie's Deke Rivers is a clean-living Texas orphan, whereas Elvis is actually a clean-living Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just...
...mixed fascination and disgust, he proceeds to poke at the privacy and the professional talents of well-known figures in the popular-music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak is a travesty, a horror." Of his own sister. Cafe Singer Frances Faye, he cracked: "She's really not my sister; she's my father...
Four songs later Antoine ("Fats") Domino Jr. had shown for the 97th time, in a grueling succession of one-night stands, why his reputation rivals that of Elvis Presley with rock 'n' roll fans. Leaving his audience in a happy lather, rock-solid Fats (215 lbs., 5 ft. 7 in.) trucked offstage to his dressing room...
...Kill. In his Dallas dressing room last week, Fats speculated about his popularity and Presley's: "You got to hand it to the boy. He's it, right now." But when fans call Fats the undisputed rock 'n' roll king, he chortles: "Man, I carry that tag well-I mean undisputed...