A while back, we saw Lynne post something to the effect that she and Andy have been great Russ Meyer fans. I just found this little nugget on http://www.epgold.com/ which refers to Tura Satana, from Russ's "Faster, P ussycat, Kill, Kill," as having "hooked up" with Elvis.
(If you go to the site, click on "News" for this and other articles... but on the main page be sure to stop and take a look at the "live Graceland cam"!)
"There can't be many women who claim Elvis Presley and Joe DiMaggio as lovers and aren't shy about comparing their sexual prowess. "Elvis was much better," says Tura Satana, who hooked up with both icons after they saw her classy strip act in which she danced with a huge Buddha. "He was a very considerate lover and the old-type Southern gentleman, always saying 'yes, ma'am,' until I told him to stop because he was making me feel 100 years old. He said, 'What should I call you? Sugar?' I said, 'That's good enough.' Evidently she made quite an impression on the King. Borrowing a page from "Vertigo," Satana says he ordered his wife, Priscilla, to wear gobs of eye makeup like her and sport the same long raven locks. "He'd have her put her hair up in a big ponytail or a huge beehive like mine." With DiMaggio, Satana got a sense of being in someone else's shadow. "I always felt like Joe was comparing me to Marilyn. He was a very strange person, subdued and reticent. He wasn't a good lover, but he wasn't bad, either." Tura Santana is a voluptuous actress who made a name for herself starring in a number of films made by Russ Meyer, the legendary "cult" filmmaker."
Within that same news section, you'll also see an exchange there about the song supposedly co-written by Elvis for the supposedly-upcoming "Elvis Idol"-type show, where the winning Elvis impersonator would win the chance to record that previously-unrecorded song.
The fellow who is questioning the song's validity is my friend, Cory, who posted here on this forum a few days ago when I showed him the couple of "Elvis Idol" threads we had going... although his post may have gone unnoticed as the thread was a bit old by then.
Seems there is good reason to question the song's validity, too, as Elvis isn't really known for having written any songs himself, although he has received name credit on a number of them. The "co-writer," Paul Terry King, seems to have a number of unaccounted-for holes in his story. At any rate, Paul Terry King sold the rights to the song on eBay a couple of months ago... it went for about $25,000 to the person who is shopping around the "Elvis Idol"-themed show.
(Imagine that, only $25k for the rights to an Elvis-written song....)
This controversy could receive quite a bit more attention if the series does become a reality!
