Hello, my name is Justin a clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today we're about to rock and roll, shake those hips because we're talking about Elvis

working with good directors. O'Tours. Not O O-Torrs. Sometimes O-Tor's. Would you call Michael Curtiz and O-Tor? Isn't like the whole thing is like he's, I'm the anti-O-Turist? You're right. Good directors. But let's call them O-Turors anyway, because I like that word. Yeah, I mean, Don Siegel and Phil Carlson, they are like studio guys, if you will.

And by the way, a special technical advisor on this. like that word. Yeah. I mean, Don Siegel and Phil Carlson, they are like studio guys, if you will.

And by the way, a special technical advisor on this episode, Colonel Tom Parker. That's right.

Big credit. Hello, it's me. Some would call him the villain of this here story, wouldn't they?

So I want to tell you something about Elvis. Okay. I have in my day interviewed

no less than five Elvis tribute artists. Not all at once, but just various times over the years.

Now, is it because you have a fascination with it? Is it the beat that you're on? You are assigned like,

ah, get the Elvis guy in here. I mean, none of them lately. Back when I was a journalism school, I visited

the home of no less than Gene Dinappily. That name perhaps will mean nothing to you, but great Elvis,

well, not Elvis impersonators, Elvis tribute artists. For legal reasons, we need to call it a tribute artist.

Back when I was a journalist in rural Ontario, I interviewed a, you know, township counselor,

not because of this, but he was an Elvis tribute artist, you know, in his off hours.

One thing I can tell you about Elvis tribute artists, they all are convinced that late Elvis

is the best one because he had real soul.

Wow.

It's like, yeah, the kids, you know, the young girls,

they like him when he's swinging his hips. Like charismatic and like present. But when he, but when he's

older and he's singing, singing with a soul in his heart, or you know, whatever. When I think of Elvis,

I think of Will Sloan. Elvis fan number one, right? And you know what else they tell you?

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