late November, 2005
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Please Young People, Elvis Has Left the Building'
(Yahoo! Finance /PRNewswire, November 28 2005)
The Most Important Artifact in Broadcast History to Be Auctioned on December 16, 2005: The Original Vintage Shure Brothers Model 55S Microphone From the Louisiana Hayride Used by Elvis Presley and Through Which the Famous Phrase 'Please Young People, Elvis Has Left the Building' Was First Broadcast.
Profiles in History will auction the most important artifact in broadcast history at a LIVE Hollywood Memorabilia Auction on December 16, 2005 in Beverly Hills, California. This original vintage Shure Brothers 55S microphone is the highlight of the auction including over 350 pieces of Hollywood memorabilia ranging from props and costumes to artist's sketches and vintage photographs worth over Two Million Dollars!
Elvis Aaron Presley, known the world over simply as Elvis, truly was the first international "Superstar" and is one of the most important figures of twentieth century popular culture. He sold over 1 billion records, more than any other artist. He was one of the highest paid actors of the time. His musical influences came from pop, country, gospel and R&B. No one has been as celebrated in the history of music. His sound and style transformed the traditional clapping audiences into throngs of screaming and fainting fans, which created a whole new music audience of groupies! Elvis created a music phenomenon which stands as popular today (30 yrs. after his death) as it was in the beginning of his career, from his first performances at the Louisiana Hayride. ...
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Elvis, The Echo Will Never Die: Memphis Productions One AVV to offer 500,000 Common Stock Shares to qualified investors
(PRWEB, November 28 2005)
Memphis Productions One AVV is a television, video production and marketing company that will invest primarily, although not exclusively, in the development and production of a documentary and related DVD series on Elvis Presley as presented through the historical Barton Elvis Archives and the eyes of some of his closest confidants and friends, such as the "Memphis Mafia", the producer of his comeback Chips Moman and others with candid insight into Graceland and Elvis' world. The series will include priceless materials, as yet unreleased, from the Barton Elvis Archives and works such as ELVIS: The Echo Will Never Die and other material on the formative years leading to stardom and thereafter on Elvis Presley and others in the Memphis music scene. Production will also include new and candid interviews with many of the people that knew Elvis and the Memphis music scene extremely well. To download a copy of the confidential offering memorandum please visit www.ppdaq.com. ...
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Madonna Dethrones Elvis
(antimusic.com/ Contact Music, November 28 2005)
Pop superstar MADONNA has matched ELVIS PRESLEY's record of 36 Top 10 hits in the American Billboard charts - after topping the charts once more with HUNG UP. ...
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Madonna equals Elvis
By Mary Ann Fergus
(Boston Herald, November 28 2005)
As Madonna's "Hung Up" jumps seven places to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the pop icon matches Elvis Presley's tally for top-10 hits - 36, the most for any artist in the rock era. Madonna racked up that tally in about 21 years, starting with 'Borderline." Presley scored his 36 top-10 hits in 16 years, from 1956 with "Heartbreak Hotel" until 1972 with "Burning Love." But Madonna has a definite edge over the Pres in scoring some more.
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Literacy help spells success
For those who can't read or for whom English is a foreign language, Elgin group offers a way to acquire important communication skills
By Mary Ann Fergus
(Chicago Tribune, November 27 2005)
Each day, Kathy Hagen spends about 15 minutes enjoying a simple new pleasure: She reads from a biography of Elvis Presley. Her enjoyment goes beyond being a lifelong fan of the King. This is the first book the 44-year-old Elgin resident has ever read. "That feels terrific," Hagen says. "It feels so good inside." Poignant new beginnings such as Hagen's are common at the Literacy Connection in Elgin, one of the organizations supported by Chicago Tribune Holiday Giving, a campaign of Chicago Tribune Charities, a McCormick Tribune Foundation fund. About one in five Americans is functionally illiterate, according to the charity. ... A former special-education student, Hagen graduated from Elk Grove High School in 1979 but says the journey to that diploma was a struggle, replete with peers teasing and spitting on her for having a learning disability. ...
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Decked Halls: Holiday homes tours
By John Hogan
(mlive.com / Grand Rapids Press, November 27 2005)
Though strange bedfellows, eclectic and traditional styles can co-exist in holiday decor. This doesn't mean it's OK to place a swivel-hip Elvis Santa atop an antique armoire. A bowl of red Christmas ornaments is eclectic but not overdone. Sorry, Elvis. ...
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'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers
By Sean Rayment
(Telegraph, November 27 2005)
A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis. ... There are no clues as to the shooter but either a Scottish or Irish accent can be heard in at least one of the clips above Elvis Presley's Mystery Train, the music which accompanies the video. ...
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Fresh tunes for your yuletide groove
By Derek Paiva
(Honolulu Advertiser, November 26 2005)
Sure, that Elvis Presley Christmas album is still cool. It's a classic, after all. But even the King would've pelted Graceland staffers with fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches if they played it every holiday season. So shelve the Burl Ives and Manheim Steamroller this year and queue up these 10 modern-day - that means post-millennial - holiday-season CDs that are sure to put some new-school cool in your yule....
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You buy a piece of the sign, filmmaker will find Elvis: The owner of the original Hollywood landmark wants to fund a project to prove The King still lives
By Norma Meyer
(dailybreeze.com / Copley News Service, November 26 2005)
Not long ago, poker DVD producer Dan Bliss started selling jewelry welded from the 1923 original, world-famous Hollywood sign he owns. Now he's unloading the entire international icon -- bidders have until this evening to buy the massive historical landmark on eBay. "I'm selling the Hollywood sign to find Elvis," said Bliss, 35. Don't be cruel. It only sounds nutty. Bliss actually plans to use the winning bid -- the minimum is $300,000 -- to finish a serious indie documentary that investigates if the hip-shaking Pelvis is still alive. ... Elvis and eBay amp up the colorful saga of the golden-era gem that faded into obscurity, only to brace for a comeback. ...
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Rich visuals but lengthy
By Ervell E. Menezes
(Tribune, November 26 2005)
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mike Newell does his best with the visuals but not the story. The length works against the film.
SO, the J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga goes on and on with each film surpassing the earlier one, in quantum at least and the fourth film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is all of 160 minutes. The trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are intact, though Watson says she is getting bored with the "sameness," but they have roped in brilliant British director Mike Newell (Four Weddings & a Funeral, among others) to do the honours and he does his best with the visuals but not the story, it is far too long to hold the viewer.
Talk of marketing and Harry Potter has set a new benchmark. There were teenage heroes of yore, like James Dean of three-films fame or Elvis the Pelvis Presley or the Beatles, but did they get so much mileage? No, they were born in a different time. Now it is an era of promotion and in that school there are two Indian girls (from Hyderabad, it seems), not for the love of the Third World I'm sure. ...
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