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Tag Archives: Elvis Presley
Spring break is a little different now
Girl Happy, 1965 Spring Breakers, 2012
“I had never seen anything like him . . . I vowed nothing would stop me from signing this boy for films.” – producer Hal Wallis on Elvis Presley
Published during Elvis Week in 2017, here’s my piece for Film Comment on Elvis as an actor. And here’s the talk I gave at The Memphian in Memphis, on Elvis’ acting career. And finally: the piece I just wrote for … Continue reading
The last photo and the Stutz
Celebrating Elvis Week is not my thing, although of course I always mark it here, because what the hell else would I do with my time. Other anniversaries matter more to me. But I figured I’d share here the last … Continue reading
For Criterion: Elvis in the Movies
Here’s the big piece I’ve been working on: to accompany the current Elvis-movie programming on the Criterion Channel, I wrote about Elvis’ movie career for Criterion.
July is Elvis Month on Criterion Channel!
Okay, that’s an exaggeration, there’s a lot more going on over there, but Criterion Channel will be streaming 7 Elvis movies on their channel in July. This is a big deal. Elvis gets no love from film people, as I … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Millie Kirkham
Millie Kirkham had an unearthly high soprano voice, and recorded with some of the biggest stars of her era (and other eras and ours). Perhaps most famously, she provided the swoopy woozy soprano part on Elvis’ original recording of “Blue … Continue reading
Criterion Channel: Coming in July
7 Elvis movies! More to come.
Posted in Movies
Tagged Elvis Presley, King Creole, Love Me Tender, Viva Las Vegas, Wild in the Country
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For Father’s Day:
Photo by Alfred Wertheimer, 1956 Because when you become a father, you just never know how it’ll all turn out. Vernon looks like an anvil dropped on him from the sky, an anvil in the shape of his famous son. … Continue reading
Happy birthday, outlaw Waylon Jennings
Like a lot of artists whose music I own (I still like to own music: will never give it up), Waylon Jennings is on almost constant rotation. He’s always there. In playlists, first of all, but also … he recorded … Continue reading
Posted in Music, On This Day
Tagged Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Eric Church, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson
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Happy Birthday, Chips Moman
Elvis Presley and producer Chips Moman, American Sound Studio, Memphis, 1969 Great music producer, songwriter, and American Sound studio owner Chips Moman was an essential part of the thrilling warp-and-weft of the Memphis music scene from the 1960s on. His … Continue reading
