July 30 - Kenny Chesney interview in People Magazine

In this week's People Magazine (Jude Law on the cover), Scoop Q&A article with Kenny Chesney:

People: Like Elvis and Elton John before you, you sold out three big nights in Atlanta. Is there any Elvis or Elton in you?

Kenny: Anybody who lvoes to sing a ballad has some Elton in them. I don't know if I have much Elvis in me or not. I'm not going to wear a cape anytime soon.

July 30 - Two Elvis movies on TCM schedule

Checking out what's playing on Turner Classic Movies today... Elvis flicks: Harum Scarum and Girl Happy.

July 30 - Chicken Soup Magazine Cover

While shopping at the Borders in Westwood, one of the sales associates had a copy of the new Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine with Elvis on the cover on her side of the counter, as if she were reading it between customers.

July 30 - Dialogue in Moonlighting episode

Watching the DVD box set of the old '80s tv show Moonlighting... In episode 13: Portrait of Maddie, David Addison wonders what Maddie blew their profit money on: "Stocks, bonds, Elvis memorabilia?"

July 29 - Entertainment Weekly book review

In this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly, the first line of the review of the Chris Cleave novel Incendiary: ''Dear Osama they want you dead or alive so the terror will stop. Well I wouldn't know about that I mean rock 'n' roll didn't stop when Elvis died on the khazi it just got worse.'' So begins Chris Cleave's timely but chaotic first novel. The narrator is an unnamed Londoner who composes a rambling, heartfelt letter to Osama bin Laden following the death of her husband and son in a terrorist attack. Uneducated, guileless, and earthy, this character has real charm and originality. But Cleave never gives her anything believable to do. Instead, he has cooked up a cockeyed plot involving a ménage à trois with a wealthy and manipulative couple and a sinister government cover-up. Like other ambitious volumes in the rising tower of post-9/11 novels, Incendiary struggles to both chronicle a personal ordeal and make a grandiose statement about the world today, and succeeds at neither. Grade: C+ (Posted:07/29/05)

July 28 - Country Weekly article on CSI actor

In this week's issue of Country Weekly (of course I subscribe!), in the regular feature article "I Heart My Country" in which people not necessarily associated with country music explain why they like it, this week's person is CSI actor Robert David Hall (he plays coroner Dr. Albert Robbins). In his quote, he says:
"There's too much classifying. Country encompases everything from Elvis to Alison Krauss to George Jones to John Michael Montgomery."

July 28 - Kurt Russell interview

In an interview promoting his new flick Sky High, Kurt Russell voluntarily offers up his experience doing Elvis roles as an example of how to create characters:

Even when you’re gonna play Elvis Presley, you don’t take Elvis Presley and do Elvis Presley. What you do is you try and understand why Elvis appears to you that way. What’s the illusion you’ve gotta create to make other people see what you see? And if you do that and succeed at it, then at least when you’re doing it you know why and what the audience is getting.

July 27 - George Canyon lyrics

Nashville Star finalist George Canyon in his song "Who Would You Be":
Would you be Elvis
Shaking up Memphis
Making all the young girls scream.