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[King Of Gracelan...]

As Told By..... MYRNA SMITH


If Elvis was in Las Vegas when he wasn't performing, he would go down and gamble in the casino.
Nobody would bother him.
But if he was working Vegas, it was a different story.
The hotel would be flooded with Elvis fans.
I remember one day during one of his engagements, he came down out of his suite on the elevator, alone.
All of a sudden I see just hordes of people running toward the elevator.
I had no idea what was going on, but it turned out Elvis had walked out of the hotel, gotten into a cab, and gone down to the gun shop to buy some guns.
It was always like that if he tried to venture out while he was working.
When he wasn't working there, somehow he kind of blended in.

[King Of Gracelan...]

ELVIS WANTED ANOTHER CHILD

As Told By...DR GEORGE NICHOPOULOS

Elvis had expressed to me on many occasions that he would like to have another child.
He had gotten over his financial stresses and some other problems he'd been having, but he was still having girlfriend problems.
Probably the biggest stress was Ginger.
He was very wrapped up in her 'cause apparently something about her eyes or facial expressions reminded him of his mother.
He wanted her to be around more.
He'd want her to go on the tours, and sometimes she did, sometimes she didn't.
Her behavior just kept him in emotional turmoil.
I don't think he'd ever been faced with a female companion that he didn't have the upper-hand with; it really got to him.

LARRY GELLER

In either March or April of '77 we were in Elvis' bedroom - him and I - on the floor.
There were two large trunks filled with his favorite books, over a hundred of them, and we were looking at a book or two.
We were talking, and Elvis stood up and said, "Come with me a minute".
As we were approaching the living room, he stopped in the doorway and stood toe to toe with me.
He put is arm on my shoulder.
He said, "Lawrence, the fans, they know 'Elvis' but they don't know me.
They have no idea of the truth.
If you don't tell the story, my story, to the world, they'll never know it.
They'll never know the truth.
I want to know right now, are you with me?
Are you going to do something?"
Well, in my mind I figured we were going to write a book together, to offset that bodyguard book.