Word: girlfriends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they emerged, and there they were: Duke O'Connell as Jim Morrison of The Doors, Mona Caywood-Moore as Janis Joplin, Marc Hazebrouck as Jim Croce, Jesse Bolt as Elvis Presley, and wonder of wonders, Bolt's girlfriend Erin Rhyne as a female Elvis Presley...
They were kicking around, this clone wehrmacht. Jesse Bolt has been playing Elvis for three or four years, and his girlfriend Rhyne was seeing less and less of the Jesse Bolt she knew and loved, more and more of the corpulent Memphis shaker. She tried to understand, and one day made the mistake of saying she'd give anything to understand --within the earshot of Danny O'Day. He said, "Anything?" and voila, she had cut off her long brown hair and dyed it black and was Miss Elvis Presley...
...rulings, a gunman wearing a black wig broke into the Davis mansion. He wounded Priscilla and a friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, and murdered her lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr, and her daughter by a previous marriage, twelve-year-old Andrea Wilborn. Four hours later, police arrested Davis at his girlfriend's home and charged him with being the gunman...
Some of the spectators who packed the courtroom last week for the bond hearing are actually fans of Davis' and have followed his trials for two years. Many are bleached blondes, with heavy makeup and flashy jewelry, resembling Priscilla or Davis' girlfriend, Karen Master. They chew gum and file their nails during the proceedings. During the recesses, they talk of their fondness for the various participants, especially the darkly handsome Davis, as if they were favorite characters on a television soap opera. Says one spectator, Mrs. Texas Methven, a middle-aged retired secretary: "I'm praying...
Things start to roll in earnest when Teddy arrives with his girlfriend, Cheryl. Very soon, the psychopathically hostile hippie has alienated everyone, shattered their self-made fronts, and catapulted them into a nightmarish movie which he directs between outbursts of violence and brutal degradations of the other characters. Teddy bears the thematic weight of the play, battering the egos of Red and Richard with his brutality and cynicism until they have lost their illusions and their dignity and are forced to confront the truth about their vanity and foolishness...