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Gumbel does not believe in pursuing guests hotly either. He refers, with a touch of disdain, to the moment in 1995 when journalists were competing for an on-air interview with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. "Diane, Oprah, Barbara, Stone all struggled for that interview," Gumbel notes. "When one of them lands it, to what extent has his or her capacity to possibly engender the person's anger been compromised? By agreeing to be on, that person has in a sense granted the reporter a favor." He continues, "Will I make a phone call [to help secure a guest...
...KING IS GONE RONNIE McDOWELL (1977) For ELVIS PRESLEY Released two days after Presley's death, it sold 2.5 million copies...
Your article on Elvis Presley Enterprises and the licensing of Elvis memorabilia [BUSINESS, Aug. 4] had me howling over E.P.E. president Priscilla Presley's astute insight into how Americans value their dead icons. And your review of riches generated since the King's death reminded me of an Elvis-impersonators convention in Las Vegas. Some 20,000 would-be Elvises attended the gathering in 1977, a 5000% increase over 1975. Had the impersonator trend continued geometrically through 1997, there might now be full national employment due to the tens of millions of Elvis wannabes. Just think, Priscilla Presley could displace...
...Elvis Presley estate and others have purchased broad "rights of descendibility of publicity"--court rulings that foster the creation of generations of idle rich at the expense of free speech. Presley family members and heirs of similar celebrities have veto power over how a person is portrayed in art and literature. If you want to produce a work of art inspired by Malcolm X, you must first get the approval of the licensing agency. One day the U.S. Supreme Court will look at these issues. I hope it will hold that free speech is more important than the right...
...voice is thin, nasal, with a feminine vibrato and an attack of naked innocence. The song is a noble-masochism ballad called I'll Never Stand in Your Way; the singer is Elvis Presley, right around his 19th birthday. This primitive demo tape is among the treasures in RCA's four-CD, 100-song set Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music. The package, eloquently annotated by Colin Escott and with 77 newly released tracks, means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley's image and recast him as a powerful vocalist...