Word: films
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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THREE INCHES is such a wretched height to be: Exactly halfway through the film. ( Elvis: That's the Way It Is. ) At midpoint. That is to say, at the very heart of the matter: Elvis up there singing, singing. Love, love me do. When suddenly he begins to shrink. Say from 18 feet down to about three. The screen shatters into a half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high...
...thought, had begun too long ago, over 15 years, close to 20 years ago, for many of us to have really felt his presence. But others tell me no, even as seven or eight year olds we knew who Elvis was, though perhaps not why television refused to film him from waistward down. No? why his sideburns should upset our parents...
Elvis still existed of course. On the periphery. An occasional single. Another film. (In the most recent of which he would play a big city social worker charming his way into the hearts of the ghetto kids and singing nuns.) But meanwhile, we sought out our past in whatever way we could...
...abortive UN youth assembly, the Vegas kids were prohibited from doing anything other than taking up donations after each performance. ( Rolling Stone reports the Hair tribe was a trifle disrespectful toward Elvis during his stay. Consequently, you'll not see a trace of the Aquarians in the documentary film...
...week before the Harvard game is always a "work week" in New Haven, and Jauron had just come out of a film session here today. "On film, the Harvard defense is the quickest we have played all season, including Dartmouth," he projected. "I just respect the Harvard defense overall-they have great basic physical ability...