Word: presleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elvis Aaron Presley, a drape-suited, tight-trousered young man of 21, and the sight and sound of him drive teen-age girls wild. All through the South and West, Elvis is packing theaters, fighting off shrieking admirers, disturbing parents, puckering the brows of psychologists, and filling letters-to-the-editor columns with cries of alarm and, from adolescents, counter-cries of adulation...
...message from Winston Churchill to the French Resistance. But I strained for the sound because for fifteen minutes every day just before signoff time, Symphony Sid broadcast a kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, that they Boston radio station played Black rock and roll. The real stuff: Bo Diddley, Little Richard, "Earth Angel...
...quality that Shroeder Duncan, the laid-back loser of Murphy Guyer's Eden Court, would gladly settle for. Murphy has a dead-end job, a cluttered mobile home, a cynical pal (Steve Rankin) and a wife (the elfin Holly Hunter) who still carries a torch for Elvis Presley. This comedy's ambitions are no loftier than Shroeder's; it is just a tasty slice of lowlife, but full of sweet feeling for its tattered eccentrics. As Shroeder, Actor-Playwright Guyer is a brown study of the good ole boy, wondering what ever happened to the kingdom...
Rock has produced a few top piano thumpers - Fats Domino, Huey Smith - but none burned with the passion of Jerry Lewis. Sam Phillips, who had started Sun Records in Memphis, sold the contract of his major star, Elvis Presley, to RCA in 1955 for the then unheard-of sum, for a new singer, of $35,000, and he was shopping around for a replacement. Jerry Lee, 21, looked like just the boy. Nicknamed the Killer, to his perpetual displeasure, Lewis sang country, which was not then considered commercially lot. But he also played mean boogie-woogie. He would sit down...
...Faulkner's Snopeses had ever taken up piano, he might not have played like Lewis, but he could well have acted just like him. Four times married (and not always with the benefit of previous divorce), a few times rich, many times broke, Lewis was briefly, with Presley away in the Army and the youth of America hot-wired by the strains of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire and High School Confidential, the Absolute Supreme Being of rock. But scandal brought him low: the British press cooked up a fine frenzy over...