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Since then she has sold millions of records, singing rock-'n'-roll with suitably dreadful turgidity and ballads with a rather lovely, sultry small voice. She made numerous concert tours with Johnny Hallyday, the French Presley, then became engaged to him, and now lives in his eight-room Paris apartment. The French army recently drafted Zzhonie and took him away. Now all she has at home is her cocker spaniel, Moliere...
Viva Las Vegas has the wholesome, mindless spontaneity it takes to create a successful Elvis Presley movie. This one gambles on hips, not chips. Chorus girls scamper through such neon fleshpots as the Stardust, Flamingo, Tropicana and Sahara, and Elvis himself, as wrinkleproof an example of modern packaging as anyone has yet produced, sings, dances, swims, water-skis, flies a helicopter and finally enters his baby-blue racing car in a big, exciting race referred to as the Las Vegas Grand Free...
...like you to check my motor." Once her motor turns over, it seldom stops. Neither does the movie, mostly because Ann-Margret-whose scanty wardrobe suggests that she draws her energy directly from the sun-gyrates with a stem-to-stern fury that makes Presley's pelvic r.p.m.s seem powered by a flashlight battery. Ann-Margret isn't worried about his sacrum, she is afraid he'll break his neck in the Grand Pree. But no. They enter a talent contest and tie for first prize-a prepaid honeymoon in Las Vegas. Since they are already there...
Tony's first career started back in 1951 when he recorded Because of You and Cold, Cold Heart. Soon he had 200,000 card-carrying fans. On his wedding day, 2,000 girls in black veils stood in mourning outside the church. But then Paul Anka and Elvis Presley stole his action. Tony's great fame sputtered and dimmed, and he drifted away - a "teen-feel" victim. Tony refused to yield to rock 'n' roll, and the kids who buy the records forgot all about...
...Please don't joke about the Beatles. Encourage them! As a music teacher and composer of children's music, I like to see anyone become successful in the music field whether he's a Beethoven or a Presley. We need musical expression! So I say hurrah for the Beatles...