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331 “Elvis playing guitar”: Barbara Eden to author, 2007. All Barbara Eden quotes come from this interview. Portions of the Barbara Eden material previously appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, August 2007.
332 “It didn’t matter”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
333 “One time we came in”: “Interview with Charlie Hodge,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, April 9, 2005.
333 “and a lady looked out”: “Interview with Charlie Hodge,” on the web site Elvis Australia, April 9, 2005.
333 “It was a round house”: “Interview with Charlie Hodge,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, April 9, 2005.
333 “very sensitive”: Millie Perkins, quoted in “El’s Leading Ladies,” by Gerry McLafferty, Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 83, 2009.
334 “I wasn’t that impressed”: Hope Lange, quoted in This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
334 “It hurt so much”: Alan Fortas to author, 1989.
334 “What’s the problem?” Hope Lange, quoted in Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
334 “She decided to chuck a quart of milk”: Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
334 “dynamite, real dynamite”: Tuesday Weld to Guy Flatley for the New York Times, 1971, re: his article, “Tuesday Weld: I Didn’t Have to Play Lolita—I was Lolita,” on the Web site Moviecrazed.
334 “She thought Elvis was very emotionally immature”: Kevin Eggers to author, 2009.
335 “He shouldn’t have to light your cigar”: Christina Crawford, quoted in Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
335 “an excellent dramatic actor”: Phillip Dunne, Academy Oral History Program, Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy of Motion Pictures.
335 “a terrible film”: J. R. Salamanca, Publishers Weekly, July 24, 2000.
335 “Whatever he would say”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
336 “Let’s go see who’s in that Rolls-Royce”: Patti Parry to Larry King, CNN, December 5, 2007.
336 “Hey, girls. Hi!”: “Patti Parry Interview,” by Piers Beagley, on the Web site Elvis Information Network, August 12, 2003.
337 “He didn’t have a mom or a sister”: Patti Parry to author, 2009.
337 “and I couldn’t give up”: “Patti Parry Interview,” by Piers Beagley, on the Web site Elvis Information Network, August 12, 2003.
337 “He was a good, good man”: Patti Parry to author, 2009.
337 “which was the greatest honor”: Ibid.
337 “On Perugia”: Patti Parry to author, 2009.
338 “But you know what?”: Ibid.
338 “The way he would look at you”: Lamar Fike to author, 1993.
338 “Well, he’s done thrown up”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
338 “We were the first there”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
339 “He just kept saying”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
339 “It affected Elvis”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
339 “We went up”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
339 “He would do things”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
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341 “To his great credit”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
341 “Negro cotton field harmony,” Commercial Appeal, as quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day.
342 “Here this entity”: Ann Ellington Wagner, in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
342 “Of course, the people just went bananas”: “Interview with Ann Ellington,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, December 21, 2007.
342 “the finest honor”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
342 “kind of awkward”: Ann Ellington Wagner, in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
343 “Elvis thought that was so neat”: “Interview with Ann Ellington,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, December 21, 2007.
343 “Please watch your language”: This story comes from Kittra Moore, who heard it from Millie Kirkham. Miss Kirkham alludes to this story in “A Conversation