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rebel. 'I can't try to sell somebody Elvis who doesn't know who he is . . . that he's not just some guy who's been gone for 30 years,' said Paul Jankowski, chief of marketing for Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc." Therefore, "the multimillion dollar Elvis business will try to connect with a new generation of teenage fans." They endeavor to show up more film clips, photos and other material from the vast Presley archives online. 'We will take our MySpace page and we will focus on expanding our number of friends on MySpace, that kind of thing,' Jankowski said..." However, Baird concludes, "Moving Elvis content online should be easy; making Elvis cool again will be more difficult. After all, for most kids, Elvis is the music of their parents' - or grandparents' - generation." See

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Query: is this really true? In an article entitled "Getting today's teens all shook up over Elvis", Woody Baird says, "Teenagers in the 1950s and '60s went wild over Elvis Presley, much to the consternation of their parents, but kids in the new millennium aren't so stirred by rock 'n' roll's original

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The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long

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The little boy "grew up a loved and precious child. He was, everyone agreed, unusually close to his mother." "Much has been written about the unusually close relationship between Elvis and his mother, often with the suggestion of something unhealthy afoot," because "Elvis, sole survivor of a pair of

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WikiProject. I've been working all month to assess them, but I've only managed to do about 600 in that time. Though this category will probably never be completely empty, I was hoping we could at least get the number of articles under control. I propose a day or possibly a week dedicated to fighting

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I don't think there's any issue with expanding its scope, we're basically placing it under the Birthday Committee's stewardship, but it was felt that it would have too broad a remit in the Knowledge space without some sort of guiding hand overseeing its direction. Bear in mind that certain dates

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Parker's success led to Presley expanding the "Colonel's" management contract to an even 50/50 split. Over the years, much has been written about "Colonel" Parker, most of it critical. "Endlessly deferring to his manager," says John Harris, the singer "watched his own career dive first into

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Perfect! I like the idea of including the biography project. Should we just drop a message on their talk page or do you know of a more efficient way to handle it? As for the members of our project, should we put a message directly on the our Project Page, and if so, when?

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IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below)

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Hello, Heaven's Wrath! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

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On September 9, 1956, at his first of three appearances on the Sullivan show, Presley drew an estimated 82.5% percent of the television audience, calculated at between 55-60 million viewers. On his third and final appearance (January 6, 1957) on the

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could become the subject of POV pushing, national days and the like, and if the calendar was kept in the open it would be harder to point to an established framework which governed what dates would be added. Apologies once again.

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I think that is a great idea! As more people have began tagging articles with the Musicians parameter, the backlog has grown very large. It seems like a good task to start off the new year. We could definitely set up a

2227: 694:, but let's try it with only Musicians. Once we decide on a time, we could put together some directions on a subpage and then spam some of the members talk pages. I will also put up a banner on the project's header. – 1689:"Vernon Presley is described as "taciturn to the point of sullenness" and as "a weakling, a malingerer, always averse to work and responsibility," whereas his mother, Gladys, was "voluble, lively, full of spunk." 1696:"Neither Gladys nor Vernon had finished elementary school. The result was one "menial job after another. One run-down apartment after the next, barely enough money to put food on the table for a family of three." 4601:. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose 2631: 1796:

However, it has also been said that Presley's manager orchestrated the compliment in exchange for permitting Presley to appear, after Sullivan had earlier publicly stated his refusal to allow Presley on his

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The week of the 14th to the 20th sounds ideal, some of our highschool members (myself included) will have exams coming at the end of the month so we don't want to leave it longer than that if possible.

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Hopefully, soon. Do you have a specific time you want to start? We probably have enough time to spread the word for a January 14-20 week. It does not seem like too many people noticed the idea on

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Interestingly, the following passage is still to be found in the article: "On the evening of April 5, 1936, the Presley's survived the fourth deadliest tornado in US history that took 233 lives."

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boys." His mother "worshipped him," said a neighbor, "from the day he was born." Elvis himself said, "My mama never let me out of her sight. I couldn't go down to the creek with the other kids."

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Would a paper on McAlster Penitentiary be a good theme to write about for my English 102 Class. We are currently reading the grapes if the Wrath and I am having trouble finding a good theme!!

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