he is such a great fan of Keith's, it was just a pleasure to be part of it. Keith ensured ChineseElvis had a great time on the set and at the Leicester Square premiere, ChineseElvis sat between Craig off Big Brother and David Hasslehoff. There is a deleted scene featuring Chelvis wi...
a big teddy bear, a lot of fun that was before the army. But byParadise, Hawaiian Stylehe’d come back from the service and he had changed. He had a lot of bodyguards around him. OnKing Creolewe got along so great because we worked alone the two of us the whole first...
" Marlyn recalled. "Well, I didn’t get very far because it wasn’t a long scene. Elvis got this funny look on his face which you can see in the film. He was great fun to work with, because I could throw anything at him and he’d just throw it right back." She also recalls ...
It was there McGuinn first heard the Beatles and recognized the folk-chord structures they used. Alone in his vision to marry folk with the British Invasion, McGuin fled the Greenwich Villagescene for the Troubador in Los Angeles where he met Missouri native Gene Clark and group that would be...
carries no dedication to Tyler – I am not even sure that kind of thing was done back then – there is a moment in the closing scene during “Young And Beautiful” where the edit seems to linger on her more than it perhaps otherwise would have. In the magic of the movies, she will...
According to Presley folklore, Joe Esposito, who had also dashed to the scene, attempted to revive his boss with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. But he told me that was impossible - he couldn't prise Elvis's lips apart. Another curious contradiction surrounds Elvis's appearance. By the t...
Every bar scene should have an Elvis Costello positioned at the door, ready to step in to keep the wolves at bay when they approach young women. In this charming song, Costello speaks in more poetic terms in the minor-key verses: “She sits alone apart from the crowd in a white dress...
session scene, Elvis kept tabs on him. He knew the day would come when they’d work together. Rookie drummer Ronnie Tutt, another Texan, had played with Western swing bands and symphonies before joining Elvis’ band. “I’ve always said it was like working for a stripper in the old ...
business. You’d just be another pawn. The people that formed United Artists – they had control over their own artistic destiny by forming the company. Barring being able to do that, you can actually change the structure of the scene that you’re working within by being the biggest thing...
Anyone who has watchedThe Shiningknows that Shelley Duvall’s character got the short end of the stick when staying with her family at the Overlook Hotel. But the filming process was much more grueling than the end result — Duvall’s famous baseball bat scene took 127 takes to complete. In...