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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The latest Elvis record is not the kind you download. If you were in Memphis, you knew you weren’t on Lonely Street at all those sold-out events. But Graceland spokesman Kevin Kern says the official attendance figure for the week was 75,000. Even in the sweltering heat, 55,000 took part in the candlelight vigil. “The […]
No matter what you think about Elvis Presley, you still think about Elvis Presley.
That’s how fame works. A person wiggles his or her way into the world’s consciousness, and in time thinking people say, `Hey, this would make a great museum exhibit.’ ”
Now, you might be the most famous person at your office or on […]
Elvis began his freshman year in September 1949 at Humes High School, now the site of Humes Middle School. He walked 10 blocks down Jackson every day to get to school from Lauderdale Courts.
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