by John Beifuss, July 18th, 2006
Film crop captures a little bit of the King’s magic
Last year’s big Elvis-themed movie was 3000 Miles to Graceland, a vile and ultraviolent tale of robbery and betrayal featuring a gang of gun-wielding Elvis impersonators and Kevin Costner as a cold-blooded killer who could be Elvis’s illegitimate son.
Thank goodness for this year’s chief Elvis-related […]
by Whitney Boyd, July 1st, 2006
Food smokin’ inside, gawkers roast outside
It wasn’t fine china for President Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on their visit Friday to the Rendezvous. They ate their lunch from paper plates and used plastic utensils just like regular customers.
Inside the homey, back-alley restaurant, Bush cleaned his plate of barbecue ribs and washed it down […]
by Halimah Abdullah, July 1st, 2006
Tactical move lies beneath Friday’s frivolity; clowning crafted to buttress persona
The chemistry between President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has been the stuff of a warm and fuzzy, 1950s-era beach blanket flick.
Koizumi strutted and gyrated as if he had channeled Elvis while a bemused Bush looked on from Graceland’s shrine-like confines on […]
by Cindy Wolff, July 1st, 2006
They stood behind blue ribbon strung between metal barriers and watched their early morning vantage disappear behind six MATA buses and a firetruck.
“No, don’t park there, move across the street,” 62-year-old Douglas Hill said as a fire pumper rolled right in front of his sight line.
Hill and his wife, Gail, came from Cullman, Ala., about […]
by Zack McMillin, July 1st, 2006
Bush takes leader for Memphis visit; Presleys host him at Graceland; trip includes stop at civil rights shrine
The Tourist in Chief made his inaugural trip to Graceland on Friday, but it was President Bush’s guest from Japan who rocked Memphis with his fervent adulation for the King of Rock and Roll.
Strutting and singing and […]