On Friday, July 20, 2001 at 12:42:43 PM UTC-4, Nimrod`` wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2001 15:33:26 GMT, jimn...@aol.combatant (James L. Neibaur)
> wrote:
> >The
> >latter became the musical King Creole, which turned out to be the best Elvis
> >movie (oh irony!)
> >
> That's been the traditional rhetoric....but I think Elvis' best movie
> is without a doubt JAILHOUSE ROCK. It's got style and energy and
> entertains out the wazoo.....while KING CREOLE is actually rather
> stolid, with Elvis giving a straightforward but rather dull
> performance, ernest as it may be. The main thing KC has going for it
> is a few good location shots in New Orleans plus a hit and miss
> Dixieland/Blues score.
> In JAILHOUSE ROCK he's in his element, the nasty but sweet proto-punk.
> And it has all that Fifties Hollywood glitz and glamour riddled with
> great early rockabilly tunes and the best performed movie musical
> number he ever did, the title tune.
> N``

While Elvis showed promise in "Flaming Star," for you to praise him in those enjoyable yet Godawful musical comedies shows me that you are insanely jealous of Dean. Elvis was nothing more than a singing head who shaked his pelvis. Jimmy had more talent in his pinky than Elvis ever dreamed of having when it came to acting. Even Elvis himself had once stated in a TV interview: "I can only wish to have his talent." In the end, drop me a line when you receive 2 posthumous Oscar noms, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 3 certified classics that have consistently made AFI's Top 100 films, and influenced everyone from Elvis to Martin Sheen. All this was done within a period of 16 months in Hollywood. Yet his legend is still being iconized. There's no one else like him in celluloid history. -D, "Along came a Spyder and picked up a rider...and took him down the road to eternity" - THE EAGLES, "James Dean"