Anything about Elvis
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Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:36 pm
TheMaskedClown wrote:ian wrote:dannyboy1 wrote:You beat me to it, denny.
Six Million Dollar Man was my favourite show as a kid, so I always liked Lee Majors. I used to run in slo-mo and everything.
So Lee Majors is still a sentimental favourite.
Of course, I could mention Bill Bixby from The Incredible Hulk. I'm sure Elvis met him on a movie set once or twice.
He's great and real cool in The Big Valley too, "Do tell"!!

The Six Million Dollar Man was one of my favourites!!

Bill Bixby and Lee Majors were rumoured to be friendly with Elvis. Is this true?
Yes.
Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:57 pm
dennyelvis wrote:
but did u know Lee asked Elvis to feature in an Episode ?
where have you heard that ? just curious ......
Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:57 pm
Jim Dandy wrote:Polk Salad Andy wrote:Screaming Lord Sutch. He was a good friend of mine.
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So what did he tell you about Elvis?
He said it was the only time he was ever 'star-struck'
"I got Elvis' autograph but he never asked me for mine"
Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:01 pm
Cary Grant!
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Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:42 am
Love the Paul Lichter answer. They were pretty good friends.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:30 am
Barbra Streisand. And I plan to see her in concert in a few weeks.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:51 pm
tcb4 wrote:dennyelvis wrote:
but did u know Lee asked Elvis to feature in an Episode ?
where have you heard that ? just curious ......
I saw a transcript of an interview he gave, around early 90s, it was one of the few regrets concerning the TV show that he couldnt get his friend Elvis into an ep, playing himself of course, he hinted that part of the plot might have been Steve Austin joining his MM as protection, but alas he couldnt swing it past the Col. .............
Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:50 pm
Joe Namath
"But I met Elvis. I knew him a little bit. I will love Elvis forever for one thing: the way he treated my father. I took my father to see him in Vegas. My father loved Elvis. We went backstage afterward. My father and Elvis got along. They sat on couch for a half hour, maybe 40 minutes, just talking about everything. It was something to see, my father and Elvis, just sitting there, bull****ing about football and music."
-Joe Namath
Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:33 pm
Nice Namath quote, but you left out the source and date.
Off Broadway Joe
Joe Namath, erstwhile Super Bowl hero and playboy and sometime actor, now has the best role of his life: family man
Leigh Montville, Sports Illustrated
July 14, 1997 "Who'd you meet who was famous?" I ask.
"All kinds of people," Namath says. "John Wayne. Was there anyone bigger than that? The Duke."
"Who else?"
"Frank Sinatra," Namath says. "I used to drink with Sinatra and Dean Martin and Sammy Davis at Jilly's in New York. Those guys were crazy. They stayed up all night. Every night. They didn't have anything to do in the morning. Didn't have to get up. Me, I had to go to practice. The good thing, though, was that the Jets practiced late. I didn't have to be there until noon. I could stay up pretty late and still get some sleep before practice started."
The four dogs who live in the white wooden house on the banks of the Loxahatchee River—Friska and Palm and Augustus and Scout, who is named after the girl in To Kill a Mockingbird—are awake. They are all of different breeds, these dogs, all of different sizes. They hurry in circle: bouncing off one another, looking as if they were part of a circus act. They are crazy with the excitement of a new day. Their toenails clatter across the white wooden porch.
"Who else?" I ask. "The Beatles?"
"No, I never met the Beatles," Namath say "But I met Elvis. I knew him a little bit. I will love Elvis forever for one thing: the way he treated my father. I took my father to see him in Vegas. My father loved Elvis. We went backstage afterward. My father and Elvis got along. They sat on couch for a half hour, maybe 40 minutes, just talking about everything. It was something to see, my father and Elvis, just sitting there, bull————about football and music."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1010392/index.htm
Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:29 pm
Gene Vincent.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:46 pm
Probably Tony Prince, the Radio Luxembourg presenter, but also equally appreciated were Jimmy Tarbuck, Jackie Wilson, Fats Domino, James Brown, BB King, Sammy Davis Jr and Ali. All of them spoke affectionately of him as a person first and the entertainer second.
But thinking about it again, Ali - because Ali stood up like the hero for his race and for his new religion (Islam), at a time when it was tough to be like that. And then for him to become and stay friends with Elvis (as well as to carry his late friend's photo around in his wallet) I think, says a great deal about Ali's emotional intelligence and unwillingness to always follow the crowd. Their pictures together, especially the one where a beaming Ali had put his arm around Elvis, is wonderful on many levels.
Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:22 am
Great question since this is one of those cases where the same question about anyone else would be both pointless and invariably yield a much less interesting reply, the latter in view of the answers celebrities who met Elvis gave, and still give, when popped the question of whether they met, and if so, what was their reaction to meeting him.
It is not just that only a few celebrities have such a vast fandon, but even fewer have been admired as much, by their peers, precisely because they met with that person. It is usually the other way around, with big, icon-sized celebrities and I've yet to see, hear, or read any big celebrity talk about being disappointed after meeting Elvis. Quite to the contrary, they are, and speak in awe of the moments they shared together, even if the meeting was only for a few seconds.
In short, if I could be a fly on the wall, and could come back in time, I would have loved to be there when Presley first met Ali.
Second in my list would be his only meeting with the Beatles.
And, thirdly, when he first met Clint Eastwood.