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ON A PERSONAL NOTE: ELVIS

(BY SAÏDEH PAKRAVAN) Back in the days, I was the ultimate Elvis fan. I skipped school fourteen times, fourteen times, to see Jailhouse Rock when it first came out (1957). Elvis’s lamentable cinematographic career is redeemed by that one movie, still good today, by King Creole (1958) made by the great Michael Curtiz of Casablanca fame, and by Flaming Star (1960), directed by Don Siegel. All the ... more >