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What Happened At The World’s Fair: Elvis And The Future In Seattle – Jim Demetre

Thursday, October 18, 2012 14:03 — 8 Comments

In the realm of music, Elvis Presley is an iconic American figure who became, before his death in 1977 at age 42, as close to a messiah as one could get in our deeply religious and celebrity-obsessed country. On film, however, the boy from Tupelo, Mississippi always portrayed scrappy, backcountry upstarts on the make. And while Elvis may have been the King of Rock & Roll, in Hollywood his status was more that of a beleaguered, indentured serf than of cinematic royalty.