The Original Entourage: Elvis Presley's 'Memphis Mafia'
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As the HBO series Entourage begins its seventh season, we find out what goes on inside a real-life entourage with Jerry Schilling, a member of Elvis Presley's famed "Memphis Mafia." Like the fictional entourage, Elvis' inner circle of homeboys lived with "The King" and accompanied him everywhere as he negotiated life in the entertainment business.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:07.0 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:12.6 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:18.3 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.7 | What's with him? |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, I'm afraid we've gone Hollywood. |
| 0:24.4 | This week on the business, as the seventh season of HBO's entourage begins, |
| 0:29.7 | we look inside one of the original entourages, Elvis Presley's Memphis Mafia. |
| 0:35.0 | But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. |
| 0:37.3 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:40.2 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. What's with him? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. Hollywood. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 0:56.8 | Hello, John. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello, Kim. |
| 0:58.0 | I was vacation. |
| 0:59.0 | It was restful. |
| 1:00.1 | Good. |
| 1:00.9 | So I imagine you did not run out to see night and day, which looks to be having a pretty weak opening. |
| 1:06.1 | Another disappointment for Hollywood. |
| 1:07.9 | And it's a very expensive movie. |
| 1:09.4 | It's a movie that cost well over $100 million. Tom Cruise, you hire to bring in young moviegoers, and it's not just young |
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