I n Sofia Coppola’s eighth feature, Priscilla, she shoots tail-finned Cadillacs as lovingly as she does her latest extraordinary lead actress (Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley), capturing the beauty and hidden darkness inside Graceland — and in America writ large. Along the way, Coppola tells her most haunting coming-of-age tale …
Read More »Elvis Presley Sang 'I Will Always Love You' to Priscilla When They Divorced, Says Dolly Parton
Elvis Presley serenaded Priscilla one last time after their divorce. Dolly Parton sat down with BBC Radio 2 and revealed that Priscilla Presley told her that Elvis sang Parton’s song “I Will Always Love You” to Priscilla during their divorce in 1973. “Elvis loved the song. In fact, I talked …
Read More »'Priscilla' Shows Elvis's Dark Side, and Is Sofia Coppola at Her Best
They say you should never meet your heroes, but you definitely shouldn’t start romancing them in a foreign country when you’re 14 (to their 24), let them ply you with pills, dictate what clothes you wear, and trap you in a mansion while they go off to fuck starlets and …
Read More »Priscilla Presley Clears Air About Dating Elvis at 14: 'I Never Had Sex With Him'
One of the most anticipated movies at this year’s Venice Film Festival is Priscilla, Sofia Coppola’s latest about the relationship between Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) and rock and roll legend Elvis Presley (Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi), who met when she was 14 and he was 24 while he was serving in …
Read More »Priscilla Presley Shares Bittersweet Memory of Her Last Night With Lisa Marie
Priscilla Presley shared some bittersweet memories of the last night she spent with her daughter, Lisa Marie, before her unexpected death earlier this year. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Presley said she gathered “there was something not right” with Lisa Marie’s health the last time they saw …
Read More »Ready to Sing Elvis Karaoke … as Elvis? The Weird Rise of AI Music
F or Benoit Carré, the future revealed itself in six notes. In 2015, Carré, a cerebral, bespectacled songwriter then in his mid-forties, became the artist-in-residence at Sony’s Paris-based Computer Science Laboratory, headed by his friend Francois Paçhet, a composer and leading artificial-intelligence researcher. Paçhet was developing some of the world’s …
Read More »Sofia Coppola Tells Elvis' Wife's Side of Story in 'Priscilla'
Sofia Coppola will highlight Priscilla Presley‘s perspective on her turbulent romance with husband Elvis Presley in new film Priscilla. A short teaser trailer dropped today, announcing that the film will be released this October. The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Pacific Rim Uprising) as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi (Euphoria) as Elvis. …
Read More »Riley Keough to Pay Priscilla Presley, Ending Legal Battle Over Family Trust
Riley Keough will pay Priscilla Presley a lump-sum payment as part of a settlement that will end the battle over the estateofLisa Marie Presley, according to the New York Times. Keough (Lisa Marie’s daughter) agreed to provide as much as $400,000 to pay legal fees Priscilla (Lisa Marie’s mother) incurred …
Read More »The Haunted Life of Lisa Marie Presley
J ust before 2 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 8, David Kessler was in his room at a hotel near Graceland when he heard a knock on his door. It was his friend Lisa Marie Presley. “Let’s go out,” she said. It was time to visit her father …
Read More »Michael Jackson May Have Nixed Lisa Marie Presley's Music Career — and 4 Other Takeaways From Our Deep Dive
Lisa Marie Presley was the closest thing America had to royalty. She was a rock & roll princess, the only daughter of a King. But the rarified existence that Elvis’ fame and success afforded her also confined her —and perhaps presaged her death in January at 54. In an exhaustive …
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