Word: presley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more demonstrative than stage-door Johnnies. Juvenal railed bitterly against flirtatious Roman ladies in whose eyes any gladiator, however ugly, was "transformed into a Hyacinthus." No Ziegfeld girl ever inspired a male reaction remotely comparable to the mass hysteria of Sinatra's swooners in the 1940s or Elvis Presley's frantic fanatics in the 1950s. Such adulatory demonstrations were mild, however, compared with those of a new and even more liberated breed of female hero-worshipers. They are the "groupies." Their heroes are rock musicians-and their worship knows no bounds...
...also the time when everyone was just beginning to forget about Elvis Presley, and "Soldier Boy" was the record they played when you danced with the girl you loved...
...Birdie, of course, was a Broadway musical--a satire on the Elvis Presley craze that had opened at New York's Martin Beck Theatre in April...
...ratings race among entertainment specials, NBC won four of the first five places: 1) Bob Hope's December show (NBC), 2) Elvis Presley (NBC), 3) Heidi (NBC), 4) Bob Hope's October show (NBC), 5) the Charlie Brown Halloween show...
Though he made his reputation as a platform personality. Elvis Presley hasn't appeared before a live audience in nearly a decade. Instead, he's been cutting records and cranking out as many as three movies a year at an average of $1,000,000 each. Now the arithmetic has changed, and Elvis will be turning them on live in the future. "It's more profitable than movies," says a spokesman, explaining that $100,000 per concert is not out of line for a man of Elvis' talents these days. Thus a concert a week...