Lisa Marie Presley Attends New York Fashion Week

Lisa Marie Presley The Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC.  September 14, 2011

 

Lisa Marie Presley attended New York Fashion Week earlier this month. Lisa made a rare public appearance at the Anna Sui show, looking stylish and slender in black skinny jeans and a blazer.

Elvis Wore Wigs As Disguises?

So says this Beverly Hills Hairdresser, Carrie White. She told the NYPost that the highlight of her career was styling the King. While doing Priscilla Presley’s hair, the King’s wife asked her the one question every hairdresser would love to hear: “Do you think you could cut my husband’s hair?”

White said yes, and went to Elvis’ house in Holmby Hills, styled his hair and even cut wigs for him as disguises. She dyed his hair black because he loved crooner Roy Orbison so much, she says.
“Could I wear my hair like Ricky Nelson?” the King asked, referring to the singer’s thick locks.
“Elvis, let’s not mess with your success,” White responded.
To thank her, Elvis told his assistant to “get her that Lady Derringer, the one that fits into an evening bag . . . and a box of bullets, too."
White got her start in the 1960s, styling hair for socialite Betsy Bloomingdale and actresses Jennifer Jones and Vanessa Redgrave.

She became the go-to person for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines, did Sharon Tate’s hair for her wedding to Roman Polanski and even designed the hairstyle for Nurse Ratched in the 1975 Oscar-winning film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
She was the technical advisor on the most famous movie about hair, “Shampoo,” starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn. Beatty often flirted with White, even while dating his co-star Christie. “When he sat in my chair and I cut his hair, he would tease me with sexy remarks, or slyly drop his arm and grab my leg to see me jump,” she writes.
White was no slouch (she was a Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1963 at age 20) and was often invited to many of the parties -- where she did more than just hair.
After the Tate and Polanski wedding in London, she went out with Michael Caine and had a “nightcap” with him at his home.
She dated Sonny Bono. “He gave me a gold watch with a solid-gold coin face that was worth more than my house,” she writes.
But only a few weeks later, “His assistant-driver-bodyguard came over and told me that Sonny and I were finito. And I shouldn’t call him.”

She also writes about a brief fling with the lead singer of the band Steppenwolf, John Kay, who was a “god with long blond wavy hair.”
He gave her a gold chain from around his neck and spent the weekend with her, but she eventually realized “he probably had a trunk-full of gold chains for tour time.”

She visited Brian Jones, original guitarist for the Rolling Stones, and was greeted at the door with “Would you like Guinness, Jack or LSD?”
She attended a party at John Lennon’s house and found Jimi Hendrix wearing a red velvet marching-band jacket, surrounded by women who were serving him tea. He showed her how to smoke hash.

She no longer needed instructions a few years later, as cocaine, alcohol and heroin became an everyday indulgence for her.

Her home with second husband and fellow hairdresser Richard Alcala became a party haven where almost every star would come do drugs and get a “kitchen haircut” from her.

Sometimes she even tripped on mescaline when she did hair. Everything was fine until she was doing a client’s makeup and her eyelashes turned into butterflies, White writes.

By the 1980s, her life had dissolved into drug addiction.

She lost her business and shacked up with unnamed “princess” who fed her drugs.

It wasn’t until 2005 that White got her life back and reopened her salon in Beverly Hills called Carrie White Hair, which she still owns.

Carrie White's new book is called, Upper Cut.

Michael Jackson Audio - People Vs. Conrad Murray

Shocking audio was played in the court room yesterday in which Dr.Conrad Murray claims to have taped Michael Jackson in May of 2009. On the recording, MJ is slurring his words. It's very curious as to WHY Dr. Murray was recording Michael Jackson to begin with. One person commented it was to protect himself. My question is, as a doctor isn't he supposed to protect his patient?
It's so very sad that Michael was under the influence of such heavy drugs and unable to enjoy his life with his family and fans who he loved so very much. What caused his pain to make him want to just escape into such a state? It's very much like reliving history, too similiar to the life and death of Elvis Presley.

Imelda May reveals how she helped mum in Cancer battle



Sassy rockabilly singer Imelda May yesterday revealed how she helped her mother battle breast cancer.

The 37-year-old star, who is in the midst of a US tour, urged women to "speak up" if they discovered a lump.

She revealed her mother, Madge Clabby, was among the more than 2,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer in Ireland each year.

"When someone you love is going through breast cancer, you want to do everything you can to help them," Imelda said.

"Thankfully, I was able to be there for my mother when she needed me, just like she has always been there for me."

Breast cancer survivor Nicola Turley from Galway said she never thought she would develop the disease at the age of 33, just one year after giving birth to her first child.

"To me, breast cancer was a disease for older women, not someone like me. But every woman is at risk and needs to know what to look out for," Ms Turley said.

Mobile testing units from the Marie Keating Foundation will travel throughout the country this October for breast cancer awareness month.

Almost four in 10 young Irish women have never carried out an examination of their own breasts -- despite this being the most common way for lumps to be detected, research commissioned by Breast Cancer Ireland and Aviva Health found.

The campaign 'Be Breast Aware: Have a Feel Day' aims to remind young women to examine their breasts.

- Louise Hogan

Irish Independent

BIM: Just another reason why we love Imelda so much! For more information on Breast Cancer, please click here.

The Memphis 13 New Documentary Film

Documentary Reflects on the Memphis 13: MyFoxMEMPHIS.com

Memphis, 1961. A city that for previous decades was firmly set on the path of separate, but equal in the education of white and black children. But, on October 3rd the burden of historic change would ride on the shoulders of 13 black children specifically chosen to integrate four all-white schools.

"It's a moment in Memphis history where there was really deliberate planning by all parties involved in order to avoid the chaotic result like we would have seen in Montgomery or Little Rock," explained University of Memphis Law Professor Daniel Kiel, the filmmaker behind a new movie called "The Memphis 13."

Next week the release of "The Memphis 13" chronicles a slice of history which many Memphians might not remember, but they can look back on with some degree of pride.

The previous year, all of the more than 40,000 black students in the Bluff City went to segregated schools. However, six weeks after the 1961 school year began, the Memphis Board of Education, headed by its Chairman, William Galbreath, embarked upon what was labeled a "good faith integration plan" to eventually desegregate all Memphis City Schools within 10 years.

As Kiel says, the selection of first-grade children, who would become the "torch-bearers" of integration at Gordon, Rozelle, Bruce and Springfield elementary schools, was at the core of the non-court ordered action.

"It was a deliberate choice made in Memphis to start with the younger students as opposed to the high schoolers. Because we had seen in Little Rock…it goes so wrong."

Published accounts do belie that despite the planning there was great trepidation among city leaders, the school board members and parents that violence could be avoided. 200 police officers were assigned to patrol areas around the schools as the black children arrived nearly a half hour after classes began and left 30 minutes before school was adjourned. However, while physical retribution never came, Kiel's 40-minute film delves into the psychological toll the youngsters suffered from the realization of their immediate sense of isolation.

"They didn't really understand why they were going into a situation where they were one of 2 or 3 students in the entire school that looked like them."

"It was not very difficult to realize I was in a situation. Where I was like, okay, where the other kids that look just like me?" asked Memphis 13 student Dwania Kyles.

In the two years it took to develop the film, which is narrated by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, Kiel interviewed and has reflections from 9 of the original Memphis 13, as the 50th anniversary of integration in Memphis City Schools is marked on October 3rd. A quiet commemoration of a time when Memphis worked together to get it right!