OSCARS TOMMORROW NIGHT

Tommorrow night is a BIG night: THE OSCARS will be televised and hopefully announce that JOAQUIN PHOENIX, REESE WITHERSPOON and WALK THE LINE wins all their respective catagories!!!!

Let's cross our fingers and hope the Academy picks the Sun Studios Alumni and old school Elvis friend.

Jack Osbourne visits Graceland

Jack Osbourne is the latest celebrity to visit Graceland, per Elvis.com. Osbourne visited the King's mansion in Memphis on March 3, 2006.

I must say that Jack looks like a complete new person. Clean and trimmed down, I'd never thought I'd say this about Jack but, I'd hit it.

Wow, who knew THAT was under all THIS:




source: www.elvis.com

Viewing and Funeral Announcement for Charlie Hodge

Here is the info for Charlie Hodge's services:

Tennessee viewing:

Atchley Funeral Home
118 E Main Street
Sevierville, TN 37862

Sunday, March 5th
5:00 - 8:00 PM

Alabama viewing:

Roselawn Funeral Home
741 Danville Road
Decatur, AL 35601

Monday, March 6
5:00 - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, March 7
12:00 - 2:00 PM

Funeral to follow

Condolences may be sent to Jennifer Hodge at:

Memories Theatre
2141 Parkway
Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

source: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/ETACafe/

Quote of the Day

"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes."
-Elvis Presley.

Tiger Man

Yes, We all know Elvis was a Tiger...He even sang about it himself with the song "Tiger Man."

But really, Elvis was a "Tiger"... He was a Humes High "Tiger".

And have you ever wondered what happened to the rest of the HH Tigers in Elvis Presley's graduating class of '53? Well, look no further. They have their own web site! :) Grab a cup of hot tea, hot chocolate, or coffee even and curl up in your chair and blanket and get ready to learn about the Humes Alumni gang and read all thier memories, including many about fellow classmate ELVIS PRESLEY ("I have in my office right now a magazine rack that Elvis and I made together in woodshop. So, I do remember Elvis but no more than I remember Jimmy Music, Billy Leaptrott, L. D. Ledbetter, Billie Mae Chiles or Rose Howell...")

Visit:http://humeshighclassof53.com/index.htm

Sending comfort to the family of Charlie Hodge

If you would like to send your condolences and cards of sympathy to the Hodge family, please address mail to:

The Family of Charles Hodge
c/o Memories Theater
2141 Parkway
Pigeon Forge, TN
37863

Source: Butch Dicus
www.butchdicus.com
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/ETACafe/message/767

"...at a club they call Big Jacks."

Do you ever notice how Elvis pretends to play the guitar? He could play but most the time he used the instrument as a prop. But who cares- it's not like we are looking at his hands...

I LOVE this song, and we always play it LOUD in the car on long road trips. Gets you pumped and such fun to sing along to. Enjoy.

BREAKING NEWS: Charlie Hodge passes away!

By Charmaine Voisine:

It is with a very sad heart that I have to pass on to all Elvis fans around the world that a very close friend and confidante, Charlie Hodge passed away earlier on this evening as a result of lung cancer that was inoperable. He had a couple of treatments of radiation therapy in between December and January.

Charlie Hodge first met Elvis Presley on a transport ship enroute to Germany from New York back in September 1958 and they served in the Army together and this is where their very close friendship developed and continued until Elvis passed away in 1977.

Charlie Hodge was the guy that sang back up for Elvis, played guitar and also handed Elvis water and scarf's during his shows in the 1970's.

Charlie has been performing nightly at the Memories Theatre for the past few years and he was only diagnosed in December 2005 that he had lung cancer and continued to perform despite that he had cancer, like Elvis, he was a true and dedicated performer for the love of his fans.

We have designed a forum where fans of Elvis Presley and Charlie Hodge can come together to post up messages of condolences for the family of Charlie Hodge and also to post up messages they can share with the the Elvis community of friends and fans ~ their own experiences of meeting Charlie Hodge , spending time with him ~ or seeing him perform LIVE ~

This forum is in Memory of a wonderful person and great friend and confidante to our beloved Elvis Presley

We would like to welcome you all to join this forum and post your messages - we will be making sure that his family and friends see this forum

To join:-
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Charlie-Hodge
or :-
Charlie-Hodge-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

I can't believe another great Elvis friend has left us. Seems like we keep losing all these great people. I had the opportunity to meet Charlie Hodge at a Palm Springs ETA convention a couple of years ago. He was very friendly and sweet. Charlie got a kick out of my Elvis tattoos! :) And I was fortunate to take a handful of photos with him.

Here's one I'd like to share with all of you:



It is very sad news that he is gone, but he's with Elvis now. REST IN PEACE CHARLIE. WE WILL MISS YOU.

UPDATE:

Elvis Expert Cory Cooper just sent an update about the passing of Charlie Hodge. Charlie died Friday afternoon in Intensive Care at the hospital. Cory recieved confirmation from Bill Burk.

According to the Bill : "He had been hospitalized earlier this week from adverse reactions to his radiation treatments for cancer, but that got settled and he went home about two days ago.Today he took a turn for the worse and was rushed back to the hospital's IC ... but did not pull thru this time."

I will keep you all updated on any future announcements.

Thanks Cory!

Stock Exchange ETA

A trader dressed as Elvis Presley celebrates carnival at Frankfurt's stock exchange February 28, 2006. The annual six-day carnival, which peaks on Rose Monday when millions of people watch processions in major cities, is famous for its tradition of crude political satire and beer-guzzling crowds.

REUTERS/Alex Grimm

My, what smooth skin you have!

1 March 2006

PRISCILLA AT 60

She still looks 25, but is it all down to £25,000 of help?

By Victoria Kennedy


SHE shot to fame as the fresh-faced 22-year-old who married the king of rock 'n' roll.

And Priscilla Presley seems to have aged just three years in the four decades since she wed Elvis.

The 60-year-old former Dallas and Naked Gun star turned up to launch her luxury bed-linen range in Sydney yesterday looking enviably slim and amazingly line-free.

So how has she managed to hold back the years? Harley Street plastic surgeon Jeya Prakash, who counts Jordan as a client, reckons it could be down to about £25,000 worth of remodelling surgery.

He says: "Priscilla has had what I would call a facial regeneration - she has had all her facial features worked on.

"Lip fillers cost around £600. Her nose is also much sharper and the tip is more defined, which indicates a nose job, at a cost of about £4,500. She has most likely had a brow lift, which costs £6,000.

"The cheeks have been raised. This indicates a facelift - a face and neck lift come to £6,000. She may also have had a chin implant at £4,000. Finally, she may have had whole-face laser or chemical peels to get rid of wrinkles and ageing spots. This would cost around £4,000 and lasts five years.

"She doesn't look anything like 60 - I think she looks more like 30. But the surgery is natural-looking and she doesn't look overstretched."

features@mirror.co.uk

source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/

Premiere of Priscilla Presley linens draws huge crowd of Elvis fans

Presley's fancy linen is sure to cotton on
Terry Brown
02mar06

WHAT'S in a name? A whole lot of pillow case sales when it's Presley; a bunch of books if it's Fonda.

Two of the world's most recognisable pension-aged women drew 1000 fans each in Melbourne yesterday. And they couldn't have done it more differently.

Jane Fonda, 68, one-time khaki-wearing Leftie, packed Crown's Palladium at a $59-a-plate lunch.

And more than 28 years after Elvis left the building feet-first and 32 years after she'd divorced him, Priscilla proved the Presley surname was still king.

In town to spruik linen, the name drew Elvis fans to Myer, fans who didn't particularly need bamboo-fibre bedding or $320 Priscilla Presley quilt covers.

They bought $60 pillow cases they didn't need either, to get near the nearest thing to the King.

And old rockers with Elvis on their cars and Presleyesque names on kids' birth certificates.

Presley, 60, said that a passion for luxurious-but-affordable linen brought her half way across the world, adding "dust mites cannot survive bamboo".

Looking at her heavily made-up, super-smooth skin and oddly shaped lips, anything was possible.

"Is she gonna have some more kids?" a man yelled out.

"I can hardly take care of the two that I have," Presley answered, and it was hard to argue.

Her first, Lisa Marie, went and married Michael Jackson on her way to a quartet of husbands.

The next, Navarone, was booked for possession of magic mushrooms and dope smoking.

It would have dismayed Elvis, who hated druggies almost as much as he hated Lefties, and wanted to be a narcotics agent for Richard Nixon.

On a tour of FBI headquarters, Elvis even bagged Fonda for unspecified "unsavoury activities".

"Their ilk have a lot to answer for in the hereafter for the way they have poisoned young minds."

Times change things, though, despite Priscilla's appearance and the spooky way fans talked about Elvis in the present tense.

Asked if she would catch up with Fonda here, Presley said: "I've caught up with her already."

Caught up, it emerged, was a passing hello, celeb to celeb, in the airport's Chairman's Lounge.

Katherine Quinney got to the front of the Presley queue by virtue of a broken leg and a wheelchair.

Daughter Gracelyn, 4, was named to sound like Graceland; Elysha-Marie, almost 2, to reflect Lisa-Marie. Her first daughter, Presley, passed away.

"Because of the wheelchair, they put me at the front," she said.

"It's good that I fell down the stairs."

Maryanne Britt, who drives a Mercedes with the licence plate ELVIS1, came at 10.30am.

She showed off an Advice of Delivery form, confirming Elvis received a koala and letter she sent.

It was signed and dated "8-15-77", the day before the King died.

Maryanne wouldn't say what was in the letter, but it sounded hot.

"I thought I'd killed him, the poor bugger, I'd given him a heart attack," she said.

And a guy with slick hair and mutton chops showed off an Elvis wallet he'd just got signed.

"It's the closest you can get to Elvis," he said.

source: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/

FYI

Today in Elvis History:1955: Elvis Presley made his TV debut, appearing on the regional TV show "Louisiana Hayride."

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Office Depot : Taking Care of Business on a reciept ?

The latest Ebay bizarre auction is this: An Office Depot reciept that has 2 "unexplained" images of "Elvis"..If you feel like bidding, current price is at $108.00View the auction:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5671493518

source: http://www.ebay.com/

Priscilla: Presley Family is not Wacko

Presley family is not wacky: Priscilla

Priscilla Presley says she is offended by suggestions there is something wacky about her family.

Tabloid magazines this week labelled as "kooky kabuki" her daughter Lisa Marie's marriage to musician Michael Lockwood in Japan, with both wearing kimonos.

"It does offend me," Presley told AAP in Sydney.

"It was not wacky in any sense of the word because you appreciate a culture and you appreciate tradition, that is wacky for somebody to say that."

Lisa Marie and Lockwood exchanged vows in a traditional Japanese ceremony on January 22, both wearing traditional Japanese costumes.

It was a fourth marriage for Lisa Marie who has previously been married to Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson and Danny Keough, the father of her two children.

Priscilla Presley walked her daughter down the aisle and gave her away.

"The wackyness isn't on our end," said Presley.

"I don't think we have ever been known to be wacky.

"Maybe having lived our whole lives in front of everyone, things might look that way but this was so well thought out and she is very happy."

Presley described Lisa Marie's wedding as "beautiful".

"The wedding was everything she wanted and the mood was so tranquil and very traditional in dress," she said.

Priscilla Presley arrived in Australia on Saturday for the worldwide launch of her bed linen range with Australian fashion designer Bruno Schiavi, titled The Priscilla Presley Collection.

The 60-year-old was married to Elvis from 1967 to 1973 and has two children, Lisa Marie with Presley and Navarone Garibaldi with partner Marco Garibaldi.

She acknowledged that Elvis, who died of a heart attack in 1977, was always going to be a big part of her life.

"It was such an impactful era that I think everyone feels they own a little bit of Elvis," she said after the launch at Sydney's inner city Myer department store.

"As far as separating myself, I can't really deny that was history and I was very much a part of history in that sense.

"It was a great time, a great era and a great loss."

source: http://au.news.yahoo.com/

Wacky, Cilla, only circa 1994---during the whole Michael Jackson episode.

Priscilla presents a line of comfort and couture

As seen in Herald Sun News:

Priscilla Presley's range fit for a king

01mar06

BEING privy to the finest linens at Elvis Presley's Graceland is undoubtedly going to influence a girl.

So it was no wonder Priscilla Presley -- in Australia to launch her linens range with design partner Bruno Schiavi -- yesterday declared her range "fit for the King". One of the world's most-famous widows hosted a catwalk show of her expensive collection of bed linens, cushions, towels and bath robes -- and there wasn't a leopard print or any blue suede in sight.

The range is as impeccably put together as the woman herself, who, at 60, looks best when she breaks her carefully maintained porcelain veneer with a giggle, as opposed to her media-wary smile.

Conceding her taste for luxury between the sheets stems from her Elvis days, she said that was her first introduction to finery and once she'd slept in fine linens, she couldn't go back.

The collection is top-end, but according to Presley, provides the best means for a good night's sleep.

Presley was in Sydney yesterday and will be in Melbourne today.

source: www.heraldsun.news.com.au

Funny how all these reviews about Priscilla's Linen Show seem to be sprinkled with comments regarding her looks and plastic surgery...

R.I.P Jesse Garon Presley

January 8, 1935.Gladys Presley gave birth to a set of twin boys. Elvis Aaron and Jesse Garon. Sadly, Jesse was stillborn.

He was buried in an unmarked grave at Priceville Memorial Gardens, a Tupelo cemetary. This is a photo of what is believed to be that unmarked grave belonging to baby Jesse.

source: www.druidcityonline.com

Presley Down Under

Priscilla, queen of the duvet

February 26, 2006
LOOKING trim and casual, rock 'n' roll queen Priscilla Presley jetted into Sydney yesterday to launch a signature range of linen.

Visit: Priscilla Presley arriving in Sydney last night Presley, who walked her daughter, Lisa-Marie, down the aisle at her fourth wedding in Kyoto, Japan, recently, is believed to be taking time out to relax while in Australia.

The linen range has been created as part of a business relationship between Presley, 60, and Sydney-raised designer Bruno Schiavi.

Her role as a designer is Presley's latest professional incarnation.

Divorced from Elvis in 1973, she has followed career paths as a television and film actress, author and businesswoman.

Since 1984, Presley has lived with Brazilian writer-director Marco Garibaldi, with whom she has a son.

Her credits include the Naked Gun movie series and a role in the cult television show Melrose Place.

The Sunday Telegraphsource: http://sundaytelegraph.news.com.au/


Wonder if this new business venture will go well for Priscilla. She's dabbled with entrepreneur opportunites -outside of the whole EPE/Elvis name- before and never made a huge impact under her "own name". Hmmm....guess only time will tell.