In Memphis, the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death on Aug. 16, 1977, has transformed over the years from pilgrimage into a weeklong celebration of the King's life and career. In Chicago, Facets Multimedia, for nearly 35 years a bastion for film as an art form, is getting into the act with a midnight screening Aug. 8 of "Viva Las Vegas" as part of its Facets Night School cult and genre film series. Susan Doll, who has a doctorate in film from Northwestern University and is the author of "Elvis for Dummies" and several other books about Presley, will introduce the film with a crash course in "Elvis 101: How to Appreciate an Elvis Movie." In a phone interview, Doll talked about why "Viva Las Vegas" makes the grade.
Q Why "Viva Las Vegas?"
A My first choice was "King Creole," but it's summer, and I decided to show one of the musical comedies, something lighthearted. I think the music in this one is really cool. A lot of males come to Facets Night School, and I know that Ann-Margret will be just their ticket. She really matches Elvis shake for shake.
Q Where do you rank this movie in the Presley canon?
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Aficionado of Elvis films to lead class
- By Donald Liebenson |Special to the Tribune
- July 31, 2009
Q What will you be talking about before the film?
A The positive virtues of Elvis' movies. They're universally denigrated, but I'm hoping to redeem them to some degree. I know they're not Academy Award-winners, but until about 1964, they were extremely well-crafted by big-name Hollywood directors. ["Viva Las Vegas" director George Sidney also did "Showboat" and "Annie Get Your Gun."]
Q How can people best prepare for the screening?
A The best way would be not to read about Elvis but to watch Elvis. I would recommend (the documentary) "Elvis '56." All you have to do is see that footage of Perry Como from the same period, and it's no wonder Elvis knocked people's socks off. And watch one of his films from the '50s, like "Loving You," "King Creole" or "Jailhouse Rock."
Q Will there be a test afterward?
A No, but there will be a drawing and a giveaway.
DOCTOR 'I FEEL GOOD!' - NY POST CONRAD MURRAY
By ISABEL VINCENT and JAMES FANELLI
SHADY: Michael Jackson's physician Dr. Conrad Murray also worked for drug-addled James Brown.
Michael Jackson's shady doctor was also a personal physician to the drug-addled Godfather of Soul James Brown, according to sources.
Dr. Conrad Murray, who is under investigation for Jackson's death, is among a coterie of "feel good" physicians with free-wheeling prescription pads who catered to celebrities in the 1990s, according to a former law-enforcement source.
"James Brown and Michael Jackson were inseparable and they used the same 'safe doctors' -- doctors who would get them anything they wanted," Brown's longtime producer and assistant Jacque Hollander told The Post. "If James Brown wanted drugs, he knew he could get them from these safe doctors in Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles."
The Motown legend died of congestive heart failure in 2006 but was reportedly battling an addiction to painkillers and PCP at the time. Hollander said Brown's wife, Adrienne, was also Murray's patient when she died 10 years earlier in LA under mysterious circumstances. Her death came two days after she underwent liposuction at an unlicensed spa not connected to Murray, according to police reports.
The immediate cause of Adrienne Brown's death was PCP intake coupled with heart disease, according to her death certificate obtained by The Post.
Charles Bobbit, Brown's personal assistant and business manager in the last four years of his life, said he knew who Murray was before Jackson's death.
"Mr. Brown may have been sneaking around behind my back with this doctor," Bobbit said, but he added that he never saw Brown use drugs.
Murray has been under intense scrutiny since Jackson died June 25 of cardiac arrest and investigators removed drugs from the King of Pop's Bel Air estate.
In the last two weeks, LA police, the DEA and local law enforcement have also raided Murray's Houston practice and his Las Vegas home and office as part of their investigation. The doctor has also reportedly admitted to investigators that he injected Jackson with the potent sedative Propofol shortly after midnight on the day of the death.
Scandals have followed Murray since he was a student at Meharry Medical College in Nashville in 1985.
That year, Murray was arrested for "fraudulent breach of trust" after his then-girlfriend Patricia Mitchell made a complaint against him, according to Nashville court records. The records do not indicate the reasons behind the charges, but Murray was released on a $2,000 bond and the case was eventually dismissed.
At the time of the bust, Murray was dating and had a daughter with Mitchell, even though he was married to Zufan Tesfai, according to records.
Murray's four-year marriage to Tesfai, a pharmacist who now lives in New Jersey, ended in 1988, a year before he graduated medical school.
He later remarried, but those nuptials didn't stop him from earning a reputation as a doctor of love. The Post first reported a month ago that Murray had sired six children with five different women by 1998.
His brushes with the law have also continued. In 1994, he was arrested for domestic violence against one of his baby mamas, Janice Adams, while he was a cardiology fellow at the University of Arizona at Tucson, according to ABC News. He was later acquitted.
Bad medicine also seems to run in his family. His dad, Dr. Rawle Andrews, had his medical privileges restricted for five years in 1994 by the Texas Medical Board because he was prescribing drugs that were nontherapeutic in nature, according to documents.
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