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Elvis Meets Nixon
''Elvis Meets Nixon'' is a 1997 Canadian-American mockumentary film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Rick Peters, Bob Gunton, and Alyson Court. It is an embellished account of the true story of American singer Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon on December 21, 1970. Plot Elvis Presley, bored with his confined existence in Graceland, leaves his home on his own for the first time since he was 21. He winds up in California and is convinced by an Anti-war activist that he is responsible for the counterculture through his influence on The Beatles The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatle .... This prompts Elvis to write a letter to President Nixon asking to be made a "Federal Agent at Large" for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. No such positi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush (born April 30, 1948) is an American director and producer of films, television and videos. He is a regular collaborator with Joe Dante. Early life Arkush grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He graduated in 1966 from Fort Lee High School. His experiences there served as the inspiration for the film '' Rock 'n' Roll High School'' (1979). He attended New York University Film School from 1967 to 1970. ''Septuagenarian Substitute Ball'', his senior film, starring John Ford Noonan, won third prize at the National Student Film Festival-1970. His teacher and faculty adviser was Martin Scorsese "whose knowledge and passion changed my life". While at NYU, he worked at The Fillmore East as an usher, stage crew member and in the psychedelic light show "Joe's Lights", performing with artists including The Who, Grateful Dead, Santana, Allman Bros, Miles Davis, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Virgil Fox and Fleetwood Mac in New York City and London. He returned to New York Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denny Doherty
Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (November 29, 1940 – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. A tenor, he was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Early life and career Denny Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 29, 1940, the youngest of five children. He grew up in Halifax's North End in a devout Catholic household. His father was a dockworker and Doherty has described his mother as "a housewife and mystic". Early musical career Doherty and three friends, Richard Sheehan, Eddie Thibodeau, and Mike O'Connell, began their musical career in 1956 with a band called the Hepsters. Two years later they disbanded. In 1960, still in Halifax, Doherty, aged 19, along with Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne, began a folk group, called the Colonials. Columbia Records signed the group several months later, at which time they changed their name to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Films
The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'', ''The Full Monty'', ''Gattaca'', ''Donnie Brasco (film), Donnie Brasco'', ''Good Will Hunting'', ''Boogie Nights'', ''L.A. Confidential (film), L.A. Confidential'', ''The Fifth Element'', ''Nil by Mouth (film), Nil by Mouth'', ''The Spanish Prisoner'', and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1997 by worldwide gross are as follows: Box office records *''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'' became the first film in history to pass at the box office on March 1, 1998. ''Titanic'' held the record for the List of highest-grossing films, highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years until it was surpassed by ''Avatar (2009 film), Avatar'' (also directed by James Cameron) on January 25, 2010. *The ''Jurassic Park'' franchise became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest-grossing franchises and film series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis & Nixon
''Elvis & Nixon'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Liza Johnson and written by Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes. The film stars Michael Shannon as singer Elvis Presley and Kevin Spacey as President Richard Nixon, and focuses on the December 21, 1970, meeting between the two men at the White House. The film also stars Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, and Evan Peters. The film was released on April 22, 2016, by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street. Plot On the morning of December 21, 1970, actor-singer Elvis Presley arrives at the White House and requests an urgent meeting with President Richard Nixon. Presley opposes the drug culture, the hippie movement, SDS, and the Black Panther Party; he wants Nixon to swear him in as an undercover agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Two of Nixon's senior aides, Dwight Chapin and Egil Krogh, set up a meeting between the two men. At first, Nixon is annoyed by what he sees as a PR stunt, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egil Krogh
Egil "Bud" Krogh Jr. (; August 3, 1939 – January 18, 2020) was an American lawyer who became infamous as an official of the Nixon administration and who was imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal. He was a Senior Fellow on Ethics and Leadership at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Counselor to the Director at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership. Krogh co-authored the book ''Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House'' with his son Matthew. The book is the basis for the HBO series ''White House Plumbers''. Early life Krogh was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Josephine (Woolling) and Egil Einar Krogh, a Norwegian immigrant and a businessman. His mother was a homemaker while his father was an executive with the Marshall Field's chain of department stores. His father's frequent relocation had the family living in Chicago, Portland, Oregon, St. Louis, and eventually Seattle. Education Krogh gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Finlator
John Haywood Finlator was an American federal administrator and narcotics law enforcement director. He was the first and only director of the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (BDAC), and later served as deputy director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD). He was one of the first members of the narcotics enforcement community that advocated for decriminalizing cannabis and marijuana. This advocacy often set him at odds with his coworkers at the bureau and with Congress but was praised by many medical community members. Early life Finlator was born in 1911 in Louisburg, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and economics from North Carolina State University, and a master's degree in management from American University. He was a member of the Cosmos Club and the Sons of the American Revolution. Career in public service In 1937, Finlator became a postal clerk for the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992) was an American actor and politician. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable American actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who each served two terms as governor. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life Murphy was born in New Haven, Connecticut, of Irish Catholic extraction, the son of Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy, athletic trainer and coach, and the former Nora Long. He was educated at Trinity-Pawling School, Peddie School and Yale University in his native New Haven. Career Film In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Schilling
Jerry Schilling (born February 6, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American talent manager, who was associated with Elvis Presley and was a member of Presley's Memphis Mafia from the latter part of the 1960s. His other clients have included the Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock 'n' roll's first great wild man". A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis m ... and Lisa Marie Presley. External links *Interview with Jerry Schilling Schilling's book * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schilling, Jerry 1942 births People from Memphis, Tennessee [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Roach
Martin Jamie Roach (born July 15, 1962) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his live-action roles as T. Abner Hall in the Disney XD television series '' Aaron Stone'' (2009–2010), Mike in the science-fiction television series '' Falling Skies'' (2011), Admiral Michael Souther in the television series '' The Expanse'' (2015–2018), King Oberon in the fantasy television series '' The Other Kingdom'' (2016), Pastor Evan Miller in '' The Wedding Planners'' (2020) and Captain Gosset in the Apple TV+ television series '' See'' (2021–2022). His roles on film include Robert P. Haskell in the science-fiction film '' Cube Zero'' (2004), Brewster Fuller in the drama film '' The Shape of Water'' (2017), Sheriff Paul Greenleaf in the holiday romantic comedy film '' Christmas Inheritance'', Officer Dave Poveda in the holiday comedy film '' The Christmas Chronicles'' (2018), Richard in the thriller film '' The Oak Room'' (2020) and Marty in the comedy film '' The Man from Toronto'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) was an American singer and songwriter. She was the daughter of singer and actor Elvis Presley, who is referred to as "The King of Rock and Roll" and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate after her grandfather and great-grandmother died. Her musical career consisted of three studio albums: '' To Whom It May Concern'' (2003), '' Now What'' (2005) and '' Storm & Grace'' (2012), with ''To Whom It May Concern'' being certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using archival recordings. Her memoir, '' From Here to the Great Unknown'', was released posthumously in October 2024. Early life Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, nine months to the day after her parents' wedding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Anderson Jr
Michael Joseph Anderson Jr. (born 6 August 1943) is a British and American retired actor whose 40-year career includes roles in ''The Sundowners (1960 film), The Sundowners'', ''In Search of the Castaways (film), In Search of the Castaways'', ''The Sons of Katie Elder'', and ''Logan's Run (film), Logan's Run''. During the 1966 television season he starred as Clayt Monroe in ''The Monroes (1966 TV series), The Monroes''. Early life Anderson was born in Hillingdon, England on 6 August 1943, the son of Betty Jordan and film director Michael Anderson (director), Michael Anderson. He grew up wanting to act in his father's films. He studied drama and ballet at Arts Educational Schools, London, and by the age of 8 began performing on live radio and television shows. He also danced with the London Festival Ballet, now the English National Ballet. American acting career Anderson's first major American film was ''The Sundowners (1960 film), The Sundowners'' (1960). In 1962 he was cast as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Beymer
George Richard Beymer Jr. (born February 20, 1938) is an American actor, filmmaker and artist who played the roles of Tony in the 1961 film adaptation of ''West Side Story'', Peter van Daan in '' The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959), and Ben Horne on the television series ''Twin Peaks''. Acting career Child actor Beymer acted on television in Los Angeles for three years in a show called ''Sandy Dreams'', rehearsing after school during the week and recording it on Saturdays. The show ended when he was 13. Beymer made his feature-film debut in Vittorio De Sica's '' Stazione Termini'' (1953). He was under contract to David O. Selznick for a year. The contract with Selznick lasted for one year. Beymer was in much demand on television: ''Cavalcade of America'' (1954) and '' Johnny Tremain'' (1957). He guest starred in '' 26 Men'', '' Zane Grey Theatre'', '' Make Room for Daddy'', '' The Gray Ghost'', '' Navy Log'', ''Whirlybirds'', '' Sky King'', '' Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
