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343 “He always wanted me where he could see me”: “Interview with Ann Ellington,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, December 21, 2007.
345 “not for one minute”: “Joan Blackman Talks,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 23, 2002.
345 lean, hard: letter, Hal Wallis to Colonel Tom Parker, January 30, 1961, Hal Wallis collection, Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy of Motion Pictures. “It is very important that [he] look lean and hard . . .”
345 “how encapsulated”: Minnie Pearl to author, 1981.
346 “His buddies had gone out”: Darlene Tompkins, “Aloha from Elvis’ Blue Hawaii Co-Star,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 58, 2008.
347 “He was always looking”: Joan Blackman, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 58.
347 “We had rooms next to each other”: Joan Blackman, quoted in Brown, Peter Harry, and Broeske, Pat H., Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley.
347 “There was something between us”: Joan Blackman, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 58.
347 “was not the kind of person”: Joan Blackman, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 58.
347 “He needed to do stuff like that”: Ibid.
347 “It takes a lot of courage”: Ibid.
347 “The army calmed him down”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
348 “He might have done”: Joan Blackman, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 58.
348 “A Presley picture is the only sure thing in show business”: Hal Wallis, quoted in the documentary Elvis in Hollywood.
348 “Elvis was really good in that film”: Anne Helm, Elvis International Forum magazine, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer 1995.
349 “become one of the guys”: Anne Helm, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 63.
349 “I really fell for Elvis”: Anne Helm, quoted on the Elvis Information Network, 2009.
349 “It was so strange”: Anne Helm, quoted in Brown, Peter Harry, and Broeske, Pat H., Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley.
350 “the sweetness and cream in him”: Ibid.
350 “He was really mad”: Ibid.
350 “He had many lives”: Anne Helm, quoted on the Elvis Information Network, 2009.
350 “sure enough”: Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
351 “I knew”: Connie Stevens, quoted in People magazine, August 18, 1997.
351 “He was just so beautiful”: Connie Stevens, in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
351 “Elvis never carried a dime”: Joe Esposito, in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
352 “you had to follow the crowd”: Connie Stevens, quoted in People magazine, August 18, 1997.
353 “I can’t believe”: Alan Fortas to author, 1990.
353 “Naturally, he did it again”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
353 “Believe it or not”: Marty Lacker to author, 1994.
353 “Listen, you gotta realize”: Patti Parry to author, 2009.
354 “She fell right over”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
354 “Elvis had no parameters”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
355 “He dressed”: Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
356 “Elvis did not like this film”: Laurel Goodwin, Filmfax magazine, issue 81–82, October 2000/January 2001.
356 “all treated me like protective big brothers”: Letter, Laurel Goodwin to Randy Erdman, January 19, 1999.
356 “I was looking”: “Stella Stevens Talks,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 44, 2006.
356 “I was thought of as the bad girl”: Stella Stevens, quoted in This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
356 “hang out”: “Stella Stevens Talks,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 44, 2006.
356 “I said, ‘Why do you do pictures like this’ ”: Stella Stevens, quoted in This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
356 she couldn’t stand him: Elvis World magazine, no. 86.
357 “I saw it was from Priscilla”: Anita Wood to author, 2009.
357 She didn’t want to talk to him: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
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359 “two torturous years”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in