Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [395]
479 “Oh, my God”: June Juanico to author, 2007.
479 “[The] Colonel”: Alex Shoofey in the Guardian Ad Litem’s Amended Report, July 31, 1981.
479 “I was convinced”: Steve Binder to author, 2008.
480 “a little nervous”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
480 “It’s not secluded”: Elvis Presley, International Hotel, Las Vegas, Press Conference, as quoted in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
481 “I wasn’t prepared”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
481 “Pretty girl”: Joe Esposito to author, 2009.
481 “surprise and shock”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
482 “he had many questions”: Ibid.
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486 “Everybody is commenting”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
486 “I can’t . . . Elvis you know I can’t”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
486 “The new decade will belong to him”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
486 “I got the idea from a karate suit:” Elvis Presley, private audio recording, Press Conference, Astroworld Hotel, Houston, Texas, February 27, 1970.
486 “male cheesecake”: “A Gross Top-Grosser: Elvis Presley at Las Vegas,” by Albert Goldman, Life magazine, March 20, 1970.
487 “It scares the . . .”: Elvis Presley, private audio recording, Press Conference, Astroworld Hotel, Houston, Texas, February 27, 1970.
487 “The promoters”: “Myrna Smith, the Sweets Talks, Part I,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 39, 2005.
487 “We were so jaded”: Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
488 “He loved it”: Jerry Schilling to Jerry Hopkins, the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis.
488 “I was always a little girl to him”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in People magazine, August 21, 1978.
489 “If he said”: “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.
489 “was like a child”: Bill Belew, quoted in “One Gorgeous Man!” by Mary Pat Hinds, Elvis World magazine, no. 55.
489 “It’s true”: Priscilla Presley, in “Viva, Priscilla!” by Kevin Sessums, Vanity Fair, July 1991.
490 “was so sheltered”: Norbert Putnam, quoted in “An Oral Biography: Elvis Presley,” by Peter Cronin, Scott Isler, and Mark Rowland, Musician, October 1992.
491 “I thought it would be a party”: Kathy Westmoreland, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 61.
491 “He told me”: Kathy Westmoreland to Larry King, CNN, December 5, 2007.
491 “He reminded me”: Kathy Westmoreland, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 61.
491 “We were both”: Kathy Westmoreland to author, 1997.
491 “He kept on saying”: Kathy Westmoreland, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
492 “The lights were up”: “Interview with Red West,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 29, 2008.
492 “You must be psychic, honey”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
493 “Why would he”: Barbara Leigh, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 67.
493 “he couldn’t take his eyes off her”: Joe Esposito quoted in Leigh, Barbara, with Terrill, Marshall, The King, McQueen, and the Love Machine: My Secret Hollywood Life with Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, and James Aubrey.
493 “Man, that’s Venus”: Sonny West quoting Elvis Presley in West, Sonny, and Terrill, Marshall, Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business.
493 “Elvis swooped in”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
493 “There always were a lot of people”: “Interview with Red West,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 29, 2008.
493 “that it was me shaking”: “Myrna Smith, the Sweets Talks, Part II,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 39, 2005.
494 “Happens sometimes, baby”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
495 “I do believe”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with