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Elvis Presley’s Graceland kingdom would be totally transformed - the king’s mansion aside - in a $250 million improvement plan led by CKX Inc. chief executive Robert F.X. Sillerman.
There would be a new boutique convention hotel, a potential second hotel, a new visitors center, new attractions and new shops within five years - provided local […]

Last year it was Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and President George Bush exploring Graceland. This year, it’s a tourist invasion expected to break all records during the 30th anniversary Elvis Week.
Hotel rooms are booking up three months in advance, and sellouts of some of the major events of Aug. 11-19 are turning Memphis into […]

In films large and small, allusions to the King continue to pepper the silver screen
Elvis died 29 years ago tomorrow, but he continues to appear in more movies each year than any of today’s top box office draws.
Of course, most of these appearances are fleeting, cinematic shout-outs. Still, they indicate that Elvis Presley continues […]

Elvis Presley Enterprises produces a tribute artist concert
Donny EdwardsDonny Edwards majored in computer science in college and was working as retail manager of a Target store in Texas when a lifelong love of Elvis Presley finally caught up with him, nudging him into what he once thought of as a joke for people who […]

Over a couple of decades, these music and film idols became neighbors and friends
When Elvis Presley and Pat Boone met in 1955, it was an awkward backstage encounter at a sock hop in Cleveland, Ohio. Boone's cover of Fats Domino's “Ain't That A Shame” was a No. 1 hit record.
Elvis had recorded “That's All […]

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 […]

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 […]