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...Angeles. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain was a mid-'50s stage hit that depicted a drug-addicted Korean War veteran with sympathy and, for its time, compelling realism. The work enjoyed a second life as a praised film in 1957. Gazzo's screenplays included the Elvis Presley vehicle King Creole. Gazzo also made his mark in front of the cameras, portraying a succession of screen heavies and winning an Oscar nomination in 1974 for his appearance as the turncoat mobster Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather, Part...
...might envision one Elvis, on a good day, but I recognize the limits of my own imagination: I knew that the several dozen Elvises before my eyes out-stepped its bounds. This was empirical reality, take it or leave it. All of the passengers behind me were indeed Presley imitators...
That's right. Not just flying Elvises, but flying, chain smoking Elvises. While the herd of Presley sycophants rushed to the smoking section every twenty minutes, the oh-so-American flight attendants were working up a sweat to keep them in their seats with their "seat belts safely fastened...
...movie showed footage of the young Presley teaching Forrest to bump and grind, the Franco-Elvises leapt to their feet in a heartwarming, toe-tapping display of idolatry...
Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 66 years old this week. Elvis Presley would have turned 60 last week. Here are the "current" ages of some others who went before their time...