Michael Moore

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege
Unknown

This is an actual picture of "The Elephant Man".

AKA Joseph Carey Merrick

Born: 5-Aug-1862
Birthplace: Leicester, England
Died: 11-Apr-1890
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Oddity
Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Elephant Man

AKA Huddie William Ledbetter

Born: 29-Jan-1885
Birthplace: Jeter Plantation, Mooringsport, LA
Died: 6-Dec-1949
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Lou Gehrig's Disease
Remains: Buried, Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Blanchard, Louisiana
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Guitarist
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Goodnight Irene
Father: Wesley Ledbetter
Mother: Sally Ledbetter
Wife: Martha Promise (m. 1935)
Lead Belly was born to Wesley and Sallie Ledbetter as Huddie William Ledbetter in a plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana, but the family moved to Leigh, Texas, when he was five. By 1903, Lead Belly was already a 'musicianer', a singer and guitarist of some note. He performed for nearby Shreveport, Louisiana audiences in St. Paul's Bottom, a notorious redlight district in the city. Lead Belly began to develop his own style of music after exposure to a variety of musical influences on Shreveport's Fannin Street, a row of saloons, brothels, and dance halls in the Bottom.
At the time of the 1910 census, Lead Belly, still officially listed as 'Hudy', was living next door to his parents with his first wife, Aletha "Lethe" Henderson, who at the time of the census was seventeen years old, and was, therefore, fifteen at the time of their marriage in 1908. It was also there that he received his first instrument, an accordion, from his uncle, and by his early 20s, after fathering at least two children, he left home to find his living as a guitarist (and occasionally, as a laborer). Lead Belly would later claim that as a youth he would "make it" with 8 to 10 women a night.
Prison years
Lead Belly's boastful spirit and penchant for the occasional skirmish sometimes led him into trouble with the law, and in January 1918 he was thrown into prison for the second time, this time after killing one of his relatives, Will Stafford, in a fight. He was incarcerated in Sugar Land, Texas and it is there that he got the inspiration for the song Midnight Special. [1] It is said that he was released two years into his 35 year sentence after writing a song appealing to Governor Pat Morris Neff for his freedom. Lead Belly had swayed Governor Neff by appealing to his strong religious values. That, in combination with good behavior (including entertaining by playing for the guards and fellow prisoners), was Ledbetter's ticket out of jail.
In 1930, Lead Belly was back in prison, this time in Louisiana for attempted homicide. It was there, three years later, that he was "discovered" by musicologists John and Alan Lomax, who were enchanted by his talent, passion and singularity as a performer, and recorded hundreds of his songs on portable recording equipment for the Library of Congress. The following year Lead Belly was once again pardoned, this time after a petition for his early release was taken to Louisiana Governor O.K. Allen by the Lomaxes. The petition was on the other side of a recording of one of his most popular songs, "Goodnight Irene". But records show he was released due to good behavior, and mention nothing of the song.
Ledbetter first acquired his famous nickname while he was in prison; his fellow inmates dubbed him "Lead Belly" as a play on his last name and a testament to his physical toughness. For instance, when one of the inmates tried to stab him in the neck (which left him with a scar), during his second prison term, he took the knife away and in turn almost killed his attacker with it. He then used the nickname as a pseudonym when he was recording, and the name stuck ever since.

Died 01/28/1980

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante

Lewis Carroll was born today 01/27/1832........

Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise
Lewis Carroll

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end
Bert Whitney

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

AKA Robert James Keeshan

Born: 27-Jun-1927
Birthplace: Lynbrook, NY
Died: 23-Jan-2004
Location of death: Quechee, VT
Cause of death: Illness
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Morning children's television star
Military service: USMC (1945); USMC Reserves (1946-49)
Wife: Anne Jeanne Laurie (m. 1950, three children, d.1990)
Son: Michael Derek
Daughter: Laurie Margaret
Daughter: Maeve Jeanne

The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents
Robert James Keeshan

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in
Morrie Schwartz

True Story Here...............

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Maybe not so bad as this guy.......

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement
Unknown

On January 20, 1964, Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
Kurt Vonnegut

Born: 19-Jan-1809
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 7-Oct-1849
Location of death: Baltimore, MD
Cause of death: Tuberculosis
Remains: Buried, Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds, 509 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Poet
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Macabre short story writer and poet
Military service: US Army (1827-29, Sgt. Major)
Father: David Poe, Jr. (actor, d. before Poe was 3)
Mother: Elizabeth Arnold Poe (actress, d. 1811)
Wife: Virginia Clemm (his cousin, m. 16-May-1836, d. Jan-1847)
Girlfriend: Sarah Helen Whitman (poet, broken engagement)
Girlfriend: Sarah Elmira Royster
American poet, writer of fiction and critic, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, on the 19th of January 1809. The family was of English origin, but was settled in Ireland, from where the poet's great-grandfather emigrated to Maryland. His grandfather, David Poe, served with credit as a soldier in the War of Independence, was known to George Washington, and was the friend of the Marquis de Lafayette. His son David Poe was bred as a lawyer, but deeply offended his family by marrying an actress of English birth, Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, ne้ Arnold, and by himself going on the stage. In 1811 he and his wife died, leaving three children -- William, Edgar, and a daughter Rosalie -- wholly destitute. William died young, and Rosalie became mad. Edgar was adopted by John Allan, a tobacco merchant of Scottish extraction, seemingly at the request of his wife, who was childless. The boy was indulged in every way, and encouraged to believe that he would inherit Allan's fortune. Allan, having come to England in 1815, placed Edgar in a school at Stoke Newington, kept by a Dr. Bransby. In 1820 Allan returned to Richmond, Virginia, and Edgar was first placed at school in the town and then sent to the university of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1826. Here the effects of a very unwise training on a temperament of inherited neurotic tendency were soon seen. He was fond of athletics, and was a strong and ardent swimmer; but he developed a passion for gambling and drink. His disorders made it necessary to remove him, and he was taken away by Allan, who refused to pay his debts of honor. He enlisted on the 26th of May 1827 at Boston, and served for two years in the United States Army. As a soldier his conduct must have been exemplary, for he was promoted sergeant-major on the 1st of January 1829. It is to be noted that throughout his life, when under orders, Poe could be a diligent and capable subordinate. In May 1829 Allan secured his discharge from the army, and in 1830 obtained a nomination for him to the West Point military academy. As a student he showed considerable faculty for mathematics, but his aloofness prevented him from being popular with his comrades, and he neglected his duty. When court-martialled he made no answer to the charges, and was expelled on the 6th of March 1831. Allan's generosity was now exhausted. The death of his first wife in 1829 had doubtless removed an influence favorable to Poe. A second marriage brought him children, and at his death in 1834 he left his adopted son nothing. A last meeting between the two, shortly before Allan's death, led only to a scene of painful violence.
In 1827 Poe had published his first volume of poetry, Tamerlane and other Poems, at Boston. He did not publish under his name, but as "A Bostonian." In 1831 he published a volume of Poems under his name at New York. His life immediately after he left West Point is very obscure, but in 1833 he was living at Baltimore with his paternal aunt, Mrs. Clemm, who was throughout life his protector, and, in so far as extreme poverty permitted, his support. In 1833 he won a prize of $100 offered for the best story by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. He would have won the prize for the best poem if the judges had not thought it wrong to give both rewards to one competitor. The story, MS. found in a Bottle, is one of the most mediocre of his tales, but his success gave him an introduction to editors and publishers, who were attracted by his striking personal appearance and his fine manners, and were also touched by his manifest poverty. From 1833 until his death he was employed on different magazines at Richmond, New York and Philadelphia. His famous poem "The Raven" was published first in 1845, and soon became extraordinarily popular; but Poe only got $10 or $15 for it (the exact amount is often debated.)
The facts of his life have been the subject of very ill-judged controversy. The acrimonious tone of the biography by Rufus Griswold, prefixed to the first collected edition of his works in 1850, gave natural offense, and attempts have been made to show that the biographer was wrong as to the facts. But it is no real kindness to Poe's memory to deny the sad truth that he was subject to chronic alcoholism. He was not a boon companion, and never became callous to his vice. When it seized him he drank raw spirits, and was disordered by a very little. But when he was free from the maddening influence of alcohol he was gentle, well-bred, and a hard worker on the staff of a magazine, willing and able to write reviews, answer correspondents, propound riddles or invent and solve cryptograms. His value as a contributor and sub-editor secured him successive engagements on the Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond, on the New York Quarterly Review, and on Graham's Magazine at Philadelphia. It enabled him in 1843 to have a magazine of his own, the Stylus. His mania sooner or later broke off all his engagements and ruined his own venture. In 1835 he married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, a beautiful girl of fourteen years of age. A false statement as to her age was made at the time of the marriage. She died after a long decline in 1847. Poe made two attempts to marry women of fortune -- Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Shelton. The first of these engagements was broken off. The second was terminated by his death in hospital at Baltimore, Maryland, on the 7th of October 1849.
His life and death had many precedents, and will always recur among Bohemian men of letters and artists. What was individual in Poe, and what alone renders him memorable, was his narrow but profound and original genius. In the midst of much hack-work and not a few failures in his own field he produced a small body of verse, and a handful of short stories of rare and peculiar excellence. Among his masterpieces are the short stories The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Gold Bug. The poems express a melancholy sensuous emotion in a penetrating melody all his own. The stories give form to horror and fear with an exquisite exactness of touch, or construct and unravel mysteries with extreme dexterity. He was a conscientious literary artist who revised and perfected his work with care. His criticism, though often commonplace and sometimes ill-natured, as when he attacked Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for plagiarism, was trenchant and sagacious at his best.

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them
Edgar Allan Poe

On this day in 1967, Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination
Thomas De Quincey

Still as good today as it was ever.................

Andy Taylor.............................................. Andy Griffith
Opie Taylor............................................. Ronny Howard
Barney Fife (1960-65)..................................... Don Knotts
Ellie Walker (1960-61)................................ Elinor Donahue
Aunt Bee Taylor........................................ Frances Bavier
Clara Edwards......................................... Hope Summers
Gomer Pyle (1963-64)...................................... Jim Nabor
Helen Crump (1964-68)............................... Aneta Corsaut
Goober Pyle (1965-68)............................... George Lindsey
Floyd Lawson...........................................Howard McNea
Otis Campbell (1960-67)................................... Hal Smith
Howard Sprague (1966-68)............................. Jack Dodson
Emmett Clark (1967-68)............................... Paul Hartman
Thelma Lou (1960-65)..................................... Betty Lynn
Warren Ferguson (1965-66).............................. Jack Burns
Mayor Stoner (1962-63).................................. Parley Baer
Jud Crowley (1961-66)....................................Burt Mustin

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breakes down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world
Goldie Hawn

This show is just as good today as it was 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.......

June Cleaver ......................................Barbara Billingsley
Ward Cleaver........................................ Hugh Beaumont
Beaver (Theodore) Cleaver........................... Jerry Mathers
Wally Cleaver............................................... Tony Dow
Eddie Haskell ............................................Ken Osmond
Miss Canfield (1957-1958).......................... Diane Brewster
Miss Landers (l958-l962)................................ Sue Randall
Larry Mondelo (l958-l960).............................Rusty Stevens
Whitey Whitney .......................................Stanley Fafara
Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford (l958-1963).............. Frank Bank
Mr. Fred Rutherford................................. Richard Deacon
Gilbert Bates (1959-1963)........................... Stephen Talbot
Richard (1960-1963) ..................................Richard Correll

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think
Horace Walpole

Robert Duvall and Claire Griswold in "Miniature"

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle
Stan Dunn

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't
Anatole France

Kirstie Alley was born 01/12/1951......

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do
Ronnie Shakes

I am looking for this. I have checked Best Buy, Circuit City, Ebay, and others but cannot find it. If you know where I can locate one, please leave me a message here and I will purchase one.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them
Lewis Mumford

Paul Henreid born 01/10/1908


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted
Aldous Huxley

AKA Brenda Gail Webb

Born: 9-Jan-1951
Birthplace: Paintsville, KY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Country music star with hair to her ankles
Sister: Loretta Lynn (country music singer)
Husband: Bill Gatzimos (m. 1970, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Catherine Clare
Son: Christos James

AKA James Patrick Page

Born: 9-Jan-1944
Birthplace: Heston, Middlesex, England
Gender: Male
Religion: Other
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Guitarist
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Led Zeppelin Guitarist
Slept with: Bebe Buell

On Jan. 8, 1935, rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss.

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AKA Elvis Aaron Presley

Born: 8-Jan-1935
Birthplace: Tupelo, MS
Died: 16-Aug-1977
Location of death: Graceland, Memphis, TN
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Graceland, Memphis, TN
Gender: Male
Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rock and roll icon
Military service: US Army (1958-60)
Father: Vernon Elvis Presley
Mother: Gladys Love Smith Presley
Brother: Jesse Garon Presley (Elvis's twin, either stillborn or died shortly after birth)
Girlfriend: Yvonne Craig (dated 1963)
Wife: Priscilla Ann Beaulieu Presley (actress, m. 1967, div. 1972)
Daughter: Lisa Marie Presley (musician, b. 1968)
Slept with: Ann-Margret (actor/singer)
Slept with: Nancy Sinatra (singer)
Girlfriend: Linda Thompson (actress, together 1972-76)
Girlfriend: Tura Satana (actress, according to her)
Girlfriend: Cybill Shepherd (model/actor, together briefly)
Girlfriend: Kathy Westmoreland (singer)
Girlfriend: Ginger Alden (from 1976-77)
Girlfriend: Natalie Wood (briefly, per Last Train to Memphis)
A pill-popping mama's boy hillbilly from Tupelo, Elvis Aron Presley was the first musical megastar of the rock and roll era, as well as being the most dramatic example of a celebrity tranformed into a cult deity by a premature death. Quite a bit could be learned about the nature of celebrity worship from the Cult of Elvis phenomenon that has emerged -- even more so than from the hysteria surrounding The Beatles -- but it generally tends to be regarded as no more than a freakish anomaly rather than an extreme form of what is actually a common human impulse; in fact, the fanaticism of Elvis' fans has now become as deeply rooted in Western (and other) popular culture as Presley and his music -- take a look at films such as True Romance (1993) or even Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) for two very different representations of this phenomenon. People have always displayed a need to create a larger-than life figure with which to associate themselves -- the shift to entertainment figures from political figures has been gradually taking place since the invention of the motion picture -- and Elvis has now become the patron saint of this tendency, sometimes even expresed as "fill-in-the-blank" is my Elvis, such as cartoonist Matt Groening's comment in a 1992 interview that "Frank Zappa is my Elvis."
Elvis Presley was brought into the world in 1935 by truck driver Vernon Presley and his seamstress wife Gladys Smith. His twin brother Jesse Garon Presley arrived at the same time but was stillborn, leaving Elvis to grow up as an only child. Raised in poverty, Elvis developed his singing talents at the famiy's Pentecostal church, and by the age of ten managed to win second prize at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show with a version of the song Old Shep (a performance broadcast by local station WELO); this accomplishment motivated his parents to buy him an acoustic guitar, after which the young Elvis spent as much of his free time as possible teaching himself to play. In 1948 his family moved him to Memphis, and it was here that Elvis fell under the influence of black R&B performers such as B. B. King by way of the thriving music scene centered around the city's Beale Street clubs.
In Memphis, Presley's musical abilities continued to gain recognition, and in his next talent show the shy teen earned first place through the enthusiasm of his classmates. Blue-collar work at a machinist's shop was taken immediately after graduation in 1953, but Elvis' ambitions to become a professional musician were not abandoned: that same year he paid $4 to record himself singing My Happiness and That's When Your Heartaches Begin at Sam Phillip's Memphis Recording Service, but he was disappointed by the results. After a short-lived job with the Precision Tool Company, Elvis spent a period in his father's vocation, driving a truck for Crown Electric while also attending night classes to become an electrician. A second attempt at recording (A Casual Love Affair and I'll Never Stand In Your Way) was made at the start of 1954, but this time with Phillips himself in attendance; intrigued by the young singer's performance, the Sun Records owner invited him back to create further recordings later in the year.
Despite Phillip's dissatisfaction with his first session with Presley, he remained convinced that the singer's version of black R&B had considerable potential. A backing band featuring guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black was assembled, and after a few months of rehearsal the tracks I Love You Because, Blue Moon Of Kentucky and That's All Right were recorded in July of 1954. The last of these three tracks (backed by Blue Moon Of Kentucky was then released by the Sun label as Presley's first single, causing an immediate stir in the local music scene: listener response to the song's airplay was enthusiastic, as was the audience response to the trio's subsequent club performances. Moore took on the role of manager for the group, and appearances at various Southern radio stations (and one at the Grand Ole Opry in September) continued to build on the initial success brought about by the single.
Later in the year, Elvis began to make regular appearances on the popular live radio program Louisiana Hayride, which continued throughout 1955. After releasing his second single Good Rockin' Tonight b/w I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine, he made his first televised performance on the local television version of Hayride in March of '55; by this time Moore had passed on management duties to disc jockey Bob Neal, who soon afterwards would be responsible for involving the dubious character Colonel Tom Parker in Presley's career. Public response continued to grow with each new release, the single Baby, Let's Play House b/w I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone climbing to #10 on the country charts in July of '55, followed by Presley's first #1 Mystery Train b/w I Forgot To Remember To Forget in September. This success increased the interest of Parker, who quickly pushed both Neal and Phillips out of the picture by arranging a lucrative contract for the singer with the RCA label.
With the re-release of his Sun singles on RCA, Presley's popularity quickly expanded from being a Southern to a nation-wide phenomenon. A series of performances on the national TV program Stage Show led to high-profile appearances on variety shows such as The Milton Berle Show, The Steve Allen Show and The Ed Sullivan Show throughout 1956 -- instigating a level of hype that would frequently result in riots at the singer's public appearances, and carried the first RCA-recorded single Heartbreak Hotel b/w I Was the One to the top of the mainstream pop charts. Parker took full advantage of the situation by arranging a seven-year contract for his client with Paramount Pictures, moving the focus of the next stage of Elvis' career from records to films. The first of these films, the Civil War drama Love Me Tender (1956) was met with enormous box-office success and even reasonably positive critical reviews.
Having been established as an international celebrity and the center of a multi-million dollar merchandsing business, in 1957 Presley purchased Graceland Mansion as a home for himself and his family, where he would reside for the remainder of his life. His film career proceeded at full steam throughout '57 and '58, the feature Loving You (1957) once again providing him with the dual box office/record album success of Love Me Tender -- an acheivement again repeated by his next two films Jailhouse Rock (1957) and Kid Creole (1958). Live performances also continued to be received with hysterical enthusiasm by crowds of teenagers throughout the U.S. (and, on a few occasions, in Canada). A widely-publicized interruption to this new lifestyle arrived in March of 1958, however, when Elvis reported to Fort Hood to begin basic training for the U.S. Army, having received his draft notice in December of the previous year.
During the next two years the Army remained the focus of Presley's life, the singer only managing one recording session (scheduled after the completion of his training) before his discharge in 1960. The majority of his service was spent at Wiesbaden Air Force Base in Germany, and it was here that he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu -- only 14 at the time, but whom he would eventually marry in 1967. The hype surrounding Presley was scrupulously maintained by Parker througout his client's absence, and recording, television and film work was immediately resumed upon his re-entry into civilian life: the album Elvis is Back!, a television special called Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home, Elvis and the motion picture GI Blues were all completed and released before the end of 1960.
For the first few years of the 1960s, Presley's popularity remained unrivalled in his home country -- although response to the endless succession of the singer's films (his 21st (!) being released by the middle of 1965) went through unavoidable fluctuations. The arrival of the so-called British Invasion in the mid-60s (and partcularly the impact of The Beatles) ultimately deflected the public taste in a different direction (despite the ironic fact many of these bands, Beatles included, would cite Presley as a major influence on their own creative output), and the social changes accompanying this shift in popular music also put the conservative-minded Presley out of step with the young people that used to stampede to his live performances. By 1966 attendance to his films began to decline, and his albums and singles ceased to enter the top 10; by his 28th film Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) his career was in an undeniable slump, the soundtrack album climbing only as high as #82 on the charts.
In an attempt to breathe some life into his stagnating career (and to restore his own enthusiasm for performing), in mid-1968 Presley staged a television special simply called Elvis, broadcast by NBC on December 3rd. This was his first performance in front of a live audience since a pair of concerts at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis in February of 1961, and featured a cross-section of his hit songs and musical styles, as well as reuniting him with Scotty Moore and D. J. Fontana from his original band. The program did briefly restore some of Elvis' previous glory, receiving both high ratings and strong critical notices. Presley then followed up with what would prove to be his last #1 single, Suspicious Minds, in the latter half of 1969 -- although the fortunes of his excessive film output (his 31st feature, Change of Habit, limping it's way in and out of theaters in November of '69) continued to decline.
Upon the arrival of the 1970s, the focus of Presley's activities moved away from film projects and returned to live performances. Most of these shows took place at resort-oriented venues such the Las Vegas Hilton and the Sahara Hotel in Tahoe, with the singer staging extended engagements at the Hilton every year between 1970 and 1976. The single Burning Love placed Elvis at #2 on the mainstream charts in 1972, and during the first half of the 70s several other of his singles would top the charts in Germany and the UK, as well as the country charts in the States. By 1973, however, physical problems ranging between his addiction to prescription drugs, pneumonia, hepatitis and various complications brought about by his weight gain began to interfere with his performance schedule, and in 1975 he would be forced to spend periods in the hospital on two different occasions. His unhealthy lifestyle inevitably caught up with him, and while taking a break after several months of touring, Presley was found dead of heart failure in his Graceland home on August 16, 1977 at the age of 42.

Their First & Best Movie

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered
Tom Stoppard

Link To Wikipedia

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter
Sir Winston Churchill

1773 Shadybrook Ct
Lawrenceville, Ga. 30043
The Scumbag that stole our motorcycle is now in Gwinnett County Jail

He is charged with
F * THEFT BY RECEIVING - 5600 Bond
F * THEFT BY RECEIVING - 5600 Bond
F * THEFT BY RECEIVING - 5600 Bond
M * POSS OF A WEAPON DURING A CRIME - 5600 Bond
F * FORGERY-2ND DEGREE - 5600 Bond
He tried to sell it for $2200 - What an Idiot.........

Casablanca
One of The Greatest Movies Ever..........................

Here's Looking At You Kid.....................

Ordered a new security system last night for the Lawrenceville house. It was very expensive but maybe it will help us feel a little more secure.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place
Abigail Van Buren

Wednesday,

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken
Homer

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be
Douglas Adams

Monday, the first Monday of the year & the first step of the journey..............

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves
Bill Vaughan