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hooked-on-elvis · 6 months

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ELVIS, ice cream and the long black limousine

PHOTO 1: Elvis Presley and leaving the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 3, 1973. | PHOTO 2: Actress Sherry Boucher.

Billy Field, an instructor in the Honors College at the University of Alabama, traveled far from his hometown of Sylacauga, acting, writing and working in TV and film, before returning to his alma mater to teach screenwriting and film production. From days at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (the method-acting school), he met actress Savannah Smith Boucher, who became a lifelong friend. He began to tell a story recounted by his friend's sister, Sherry Boucher, but then she called to re-tell it, first person. Boucher was once married to George Peppard, star from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to "The A-Team," but her Elvis encounter preceded that.

Here it goes: In '73, while modeling for a car ad in Palm Springs, California, Sherry Boucher took an afternoon snack break from the desert heat. "... I was so excited about getting this ice cream," she said. As she walked, reveling in the cone, a man who she thinks was Elvis' longtime friend, Red "Sonny" West stepped up and spoke: "'There's a man in that car who wants to speak to you.'" But her folks back in Louisiana raised the kids right. She knew better than to approach strange men in cars, even if that vehicle was a star's long black limousine. She couldn't see through the windows. Possibly Red said: "You just have to walk on the sidewalk. Really, it's OK." "I'm licking this ice cream, and it's melting down my arm. I peep over, lean over, and look in the window; he rolls the window down. He went 'Hello, I'm Elvis Presley. You wanna sit down? Maybe we can get you something to help you with that'" overflowing ice cream. "I was thinking 'Oh my God.' Trying to be cool, trying to be not affected. He opens the door, and says 'You don't have to get in the car; we'll leave the door open.'" So instead of taking a seat with Elvis, Boucher sat on the edge of the limo's open door, both feet sensibly on the ground. As a young model and actress, she wasn't new to compliments, and comparisons: Depending on how her hair was styled, people would mention Natalie Wood, or Ann-Margret, though she didn't see the resemblances. But from her corona of long dark hair, Elvis pictured somebody else: The woman he was divorcing, mother of his only child. "He just had such a sad look on his face, and I said 'Are you all right?' He just looked at me, and I said 'You think I look her, don't you?' He said 'You do look like her.' And I said 'Well. I'm not her.'" She stuck out an ice-cream sticky hand, as if to shake, then had another thought. Asking for something to write on, she scribbled the phone number of her dad, Jesse Boucher. "I said, 'If you need anybody to talk to, my dad is unbelievable. He's great to talk to.' I said 'Mr. Presley,' and he looked at me and said 'Elvis.' I said, 'OK, Mr. Elvis, if you want to talk to my daddy, there's nobody better.' " "He was nothing but nice, but it was a very sad meeting," said Boucher, who after Hollywood days moved back to Louisiana. "I can't believe I was such a banana-head, to give him my dad's number." Source: https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/local/2017/08/13/readers-share-memories-of-elvis-king-of-rock-n-roll/19740202007/

PHOTO 1: Sherry Boucher (L) and George Peppard (C) attend the American Civil Liberties Union's tribute to Henry Fonda at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on June 1, 1974 | PHOTO 2: "THE F.B.I." TV show: Tom Skerritt, Sherry Boucher, 'Unknown Victim', (Season 6, aired Jan. 3, 1971), 1965-74

Elvis Presley smoking a cigar in the back seat of a station wagon at the Whiteman Air Park, Pacoima, CA on November 19, 1973.

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esonetwork · 3 months

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Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet | Tales From Hollywoodland

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Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet | Tales From Hollywoodland

What was it like to be a Hollywood starlet back in the 1960s? Find out this week, when Arthur, Julian and Steve interview Carol Holland (aka Hollenbeck) who became our first guest-host, and shares her harrowing story of trying to find traction in Hollywood while fighting back against casting couch low-lifes and rampant sexism.

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iamasaddie · 3 months

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Pedro Pascal about being the drama queen on set (not)

#love this silly goof #pedro pascal #hollywood reporter #freaky tales #iamasaddie gif #userfanni

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mswyrr · 5 months

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Love this article on Labyrinth

#labyrinth #sarah williams #jareth #labyrinth meta #labyrinth 1986 #fairy tales #hollywood hates female sexuality so much rn #and *so does fandom*

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clark-hailey77 · 1 year

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Sarah Michelle Gellar - The Hollywood Reporter [January 2023] Photography by Jonny Marlow

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aethersea · 2 months

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devastating to go into the tag for an obscure vampire movie I've been quietly obsessed with for years to find mostly gifsets of minor characters (played by big-name actors) and review blogs saying they didn't like it :(

@ everyone who made a post saying "I liked it :)" I am blowing you a kiss. everyone who made a lovely gifset or photoset of the cinematography I am tipping my hat. that one poster that said "bro did y'all just miss the Entire Message about class and race or???" I am shaking your hand with enthusiasm there was SUCH a message about class and race

anyway everybody should watch Night Teeth and revel in glitzy flashy modern vampires in LA with me

#finx rambles #night teeth #vampires #apparently the marketing heavily overemphasized megan fox (she has a bit role. she's in like one scene)#so that one's not on the fans #but I am sad about all those people fuming bc it didn't have a poly ending #girl this is hollywood? what did you expect?#invent it yourself? that is what fandom is for?? queer reads have always been about discarding endings and living in the liminal??#(side note I love queer readings of fairy tales. fairy tales class was so fun. god I need sleep or something my brain is on SUCH tangents.)#frustrated by that one post saying 'the vampire-slaying gang leader spends the day after a catastrophe befalls #trying to get his shift covered at work? unrealistic'#bro he's working class. he's poor. he's gotta put food on the table. do you think your job cares about your personal tragedy #this is in fact part of the Themes At Play wrt class. believe it or not.#sad also about those reviews that are like 'eh it was mid' but I've never needed critics to agree with me and I'm not about to start now #I did think the gifmakers would be on my side though #the lighting in this movie???#that whole opening sequence in the credits with the storytelling done through reflections in cars at night?#the color choices??? the lighting??!?!?!?!

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luckydiorxoxo · 3 months

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DOMINIQUE THORNE AND NORMANI KORDEI HAMILTON attend the FREAKY TALES premiere at the 2024 SUNDANCE film festival

#dominique thorne #normani #sundance film festival #freaky tales #black hollywood #melanin

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morallyinept · 3 months

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NEW Pedro and some of The Freaky Tales cast/creators, for The Hollywood Reporter at Sundance.

Via THR Tiktok 🖤

#pedro pascal #sundance #the hollywood reporter #freaky tales

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retrotales · 4 months

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Christine (1958) directed by Pierre Gaspard-Hult starring Alain Delon & Romy Schneider

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iloveyoujohnnydepp · 2 months

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, press conference in Shanghai.

Re: Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) dir. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg

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esonetwork · 6 months

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Steve Guttenberg Unscripted

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Steve Guttenberg Unscripted

This week, the Tales from Hollywoodland team spends a fun hour with film and television actor Steve Guttenberg – covering everything from “The Boys from Brazil” to “Cocoon” and beyond.

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ignis--fatuus · 1 month

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Nobody: 60s/70s Horror Movie Candles:

Seriously what is is with old 60s movies and having these candles????? What was the chokehold red twisted candles had on the 60s Hollywood Horror scene? Did they order too many? Was the prop department desperate to get rid of them? Why were they in every movie?