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 If Michael Shannon hasn't proved his disrespect for Elvis YET, read this from a Billboard interview: "He took acting seriously and wanted to do better films. I still can't get through Viva Las Vegas , but he was great in King Creole. It was something he ran into time and time again: He wasn't taken seriously. Hello Ugly Elvis...the chemistry ALONE in this film....geez! Maybe Harum Scarum but Viva? No way! $ellout failed AGAIN! This just shows how much Shannon learned and studied about Elvis. And the respect he took away. ZERO POINT ZERO! TAKE THE PAYCHECK AND RUN!  That is what Jerry taught them, the hero! So let me a fellow Elvis fan school you,  Elvis' movies made so much money, they funded the biggest movies ever made. I bet $ellout didn't tell you that. And the little he told the actors about Elvis compared to the huge quantity about himself is very clear to true Elvis fans.

Michael Shannon , I mean Ugly Elvis appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon wearing a DRACULA cape impersonating Elvis. After a few jabs at Elvis' expense, he mentions Lauderdale Courts in Memphis. Nothing flattering said about Elvis. Enjoy the paycheck courtesy of Elvis!

Here's what the press took away from Ugly Elvis, Elvis and Nixon and what the general public will read about Elvis. I am so hurt for Elvis by this. Most Critics call Jerry's character, DULL. Elvis was traveling with some guns and his collection of police badges , and he decided that what he really wanted was a badge from the federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs back in Washington. "The narc badge represented some kind of ultimate power to him," Priscilla Presley would write in her memoir, Elvis and Me. "With the federal narcotics badge, he [believed he] could legally enter any country both wearing guns and carrying any drugs he wished." Arrayed in a purple velvet suit with a huge gold belt buckle and amber sunglasses, Elvis came bearing a gift—a Colt .45 pistol mounted in a display case that Elvis had plucked off the wall of his Los Angeles mansion. In 1988, years after Nixon resigned and Elvis died of a drug overdose , a Chicago newspa...

  Michael Shannon , or as one of my friends calls him, UGLY ELVIS gave an interview to USA TODAY. Here is part of it. Preparing for the movie, which retraces Presley's 1970 meeting with President Nixon (played by Kevin Spacey), Shannon knew exactly what he didn't want to do: An Elvis impersonation. Presley's old colleague and confidante Jerry Schilling, who served as executive producer (and is represented as a character), warned the actor against such an approach.  "Jerry said, 'People don't know my friend as well as they think they do,' " says Shannon. Though he's tall and striking, with prominent blue eyes, Shannon's strong features hardly recall Presley's prettiness. But the actor's nuanced performance suggests the softer feelings and self-consciousness underlying the rock icon's blazing charisma. "The shake, rattle and roll — that all came out of being nervous," Shannon notes. "Early on, (Presley) wou...