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Whelp, I dunno what house they lived in, cuz they lived at Graceland----BUT, if they had another house together, and IF Priscilla took it, it could've been to pay Elvis' bills----which were innumerable----aside from the ungodly cost of upkeep on Graceland.

As for it being too sad to live there.... I don't think most people move out of their house when their loved-one dies. I think it seems different, maybe, because Elvis was famous----so, to everyone ELSE, there's this magnitude about his persona, so there was a magnitude about his death----BUT, he was still just Lisa Marie's dad----and one of Priscilla's best friends. I would think it would bring great comfort for them to go back there / stay there / be close to him. It's a friggin' SHRINE----everything is exactly as it was when Elvis lived there----EXACTLY. They go-back for Christmas, often, for example.

Oh, and----you're quite welcome!

I tried to research the jewelry, but there are discrepancies and major Internet arguments.

At one point, in 2012, I think, Ginger Alden was trying to auction off a ring that she said was her engagement ring.

Almost immediately, there were accusations from people who had seen the real ring, people who had seen clear pictures of it, and quotes from the jeweller who made the real ring.

What she tried to sell had small stones.

The genuine ring was designed by Elvis, and as no large enough center diamond was available as soon as he wanted it, Elvis had the 11.5 carat stone from his original TCB necklace removed and mounted in Ginger's engagement ring.

At the time of his death, a replacement diamond had supposedly not been placed into the TCB necklace.

eBay has numerous 'Elvis-style' and copies of his jewelry for sale.

Most of it gets pretty confusing to me,frankly.

26 Things Elvis Demanded to be Kept at Graceland at ALL TIMES:

• Bacon
• Banana Pudding
• Biscuits (6 Cans)
• Brownies
• Chocolate Ice Cream
• Cigarettes
• Contac
• Dristan
• Fresh Fruit
• Fresh Ground Beef
• Gum (3 packs each of Spearmint, Juicy Fruit, and Doublemint)
• Half and Half
• Hamburger Buns
• Hot Dogs
• Meat Loaf
• Milk
• Onions
• Orange Soda (Case)
• Peanut Butter
• Pepsi (Case)
• Potatoes
• Sauerkraut
• Sucrets
• Super Anahist

I kept on researching...

The reason that the TCB necklace(s) are capitalized 'TCB' connected to a lightening bolt is that one of Elvis' favorite sayings was 'Taking care of business in a flash'.


Apparently he designed a different style for women which said 'TLC', and gave them to close female friends.


His favorite aftershave/colognes were Aqua Velva and Brut.

And possibly Hai Karate, but I do not even want to think about that.

It's commonly written that Lon Chaney was intended for the title role in Dracula (1931) but died before production. In truth, he was never intended for the part. He couldn't have played it anyway, since he had been signed to another studio. Conrad Veidt was who the studio really wanted before settling on Bela Lugosi.

(source: David J. Skal, Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen)

Midnight Cowboy is the only X rated film
to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture

The word love appears in more film titles than any other word----second most common word: Paris.

Ava Gardner said of Elizabeth Taylor:

"She was pretty, but I was beautiful".

Person who has appeared on the most People magazine covers: Princess Diana, with 54 covers.

Richard Roxburgh is the only actor to have played Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty, and Count Dracula on-screen, and he played them all within three years of each other. He played Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), Moriarty in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), and Dracula in Van Helsing (2004). Orson Welles has also played all three characters, but only on radio programs. Anthony Higgins has played both Holmes and Moriarty on-screen, but not Dracula.

Christopher Lee played both Holmes and Dracula on-screen, and Frank Langella and Jeremy Brett played Holmes and Dracula on the stage. Brett played Holmes on-screen and Langella played Dracula on-screen, but neither played the other character on-screen.

Orson Welles also played Treasure Island's Long John Silver, both on the radio and on film. The character has also been played on-screen by Jack Palance, who played Dracula in a 1973 film, and Charlton Heston, who played Holmes in a 1991 film. Silver has also been played on-screen by Tim Curry, who played Dr. Frankenstein in a CD-ROM video game, and Charles Ogle, who played Frankenstein's monster in the first film adaptation of Frankenstein.

Oh, and Laurence Olivier has played both Van Helsing and Professor Moriarty on-screen. And who else played Van Helsing? Peter Cushing, who also played Sherlock Holmes.

Oh! And on the NBC show Dracula, Van Helsing is played by Thomas Kretschmann, who played Dracula in Dracula 3D. In that movie, Van Helsing was played by Rutger Hauer, who played Dracula in Dracula III: Legacy.

I'm sure Kevin Bacon fits into all this, but I'm not yet sure how.

The Odd Couple - TV Show:
In the show's opening credits you can see Tony Randall walking up Fifth Avenue as Felix with two suitcases, on his way to Oscar's. The bags are awfully heavy so he puts them down on the sidewalk and sits for a bit. A guy who was passing stopped and tried to help Tony with the bags. ''Hey, are you okay, buddy?'' He didn't know who Randall was, or that they were filming. He just wanted to help him with the heavy bags. He nearly ruined the take.

Tony Randall said of the incident..
"Ordinarily you can drop dead on the streets of New York and no one's going to help you. We kept it in the main titles."

The slow-wited, good-natured cartoon character, "Fat Albert", was modeled after Bill Cosby's dyslexic brother, Russell.

Bill Cosby became widely known due to starring in theT.V. Show 'I Spy'.

The NBC network was hesitant to cast a black man in a lead role, but Robert Culp insisted on Cosby as his co-star, and T.V. History was made.

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The shark model in "Jaws" was called "Bruce"----Steven Spielberg named it after his lawyer.

Marsha Mason was married to playwright Neil Simon for ten years.

Their relationship was the basis for 'Chapter Two', the 1979 film that earned her an Oscar nomination.

Lana Wood said of her sister:

"Natalie got the brains, but I got the t*ts".


Sorry to bring down the tone of this thread. I'm not usually like this, as Sylkat can confirm!