Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Elvis and Me
Book Review: Great book to read
Summary: 5 Stars
This book just tells it all! Very interesting, I read the whole book in 24 hours, thats how good it is.Book Review: Her Way
Summary: 3 Stars
Priscilla has always polished her image more than Elvis'. She makes Graceland employees sign loyalty oaths and sues anyone that says something against her. You can trash Elvis all you want, but she goes on the warpath over stories reveal her drug use and promiscuity. She sued the special services guy, Curry Grant, that introduced her to Elvis, when he claimed to have been her first lover. I can't imagine how she won that suit. She plays herself up as this great entreprenurial wizard that turned Graceland into a gold mine, when all she really did was open the front door and 15,000,000 people have come by. We love Elvis not Priscilla.
In all the other books, Priscilla is minor figure in Elvis' life, making her entrances and exits and driving Elvis away with her tantrums and attitudes. Elvis usually managed to stay a house away from her throughout their years together so that he'd be free to pursue his many loves and flings. When he'd be in Hollywood, she'd be in Memphis. When she moved to LA, Elvis got a place in Palm Springs.
The book is written in a childlike narrative that is as annoying as her interviews, where she presents herself as this coquettish blushing giggling 60 year old teen. Remember what Elvis told you; don't bob your hair red and wear prints, checks and stripes . . . especially in the same outfit. Read CHILD BRIDE for the real skinny on Ms. Beaulieu!
Book Review: How do I hate this book; let me count the ways . . .
Summary: 1 Stars
Priscilla portrays herself as a victim; a poor waif that was manipulated into a lifestyle not of her choosing. Elvis forced her to use drugs, dabble in bisexuality, and finally drove her into the arms of her dance instructor, her karate instructor and others. Then why long after Elvis passed away, was she still using recreational drugs, dabbling in bisexuality and engaging in rampant promiscuity? Her cheating ways continued when she was with Mike Stone, then Mike Edwards and her current man servant Marco Garabaldi. She took Elvis to task about being a terrible father and even filed suit to take Lisa Marie away from him until he gave her more money and jewelery, yet exposed her to her footloose lifestyle of partying with gigolos. Mike Edwards even wrote a book detailing his lust for the pre-pubescent Lisa Msarie while they were living under the same roof. I don't deny what she says about Elvis, it is the intent that bothers me. She leaves out how she drove him away with her constant braying about his life and career and how she thought that she was his boss. She thought nothing of degrading Elvis to her friends and his, she brazenly talked about her sexual dissatisfaction and carried on her affairs openly daring his Memphis Mafia guys to tell The Boss. Today she runs the enterprise without consideration for the fans. She rents out the land around the mansion to low rent businesses and has remade Graceland in her image, by doing away with Elvis' renovations in favor of her own questionable taste. Today Graceland is one of the worst tourist traps on the planet and that would make Elvis very sad, because his love and care for the fans that put him on that hill was as exemplary as his career. The telling moment in this book/movie, is where she depicts herself at the airport in Germany, weeping hysterically and crying out his name . . . however newsreels show her frosty countenance with no more than a momentary pout. Elvis called her the coldest woman he had ever known . . . that is her epitaph . . .Book Review: I dunno.......
Summary: 3 Stars
Like all of the other Elvis insider books, I own this one too. Actually this was one of the first Elvis books that I ever read. I always accepted it as gospel until I read a bunch of the other books, all told from different angles. Now, this story just kind of seems a little too good to be true. Unfortunately,we only have Priscilla's word since she is in the proverbial drivers seat and the Mafia is disowned by the estate.Book Review: I felt a little disappointed.......
Summary: 3 Stars
As a child who grew up thinking Elvis was the best thing in pants, this movie made me feel very disappointed. I felt as though Priscilla exploited Elvis and made him look terrible. I am in no way disputing what went on in their household as noone knows that better than Priscilla, and yet I couldnt help feeling like she didnt need to make him look like such a monster, while she came away looking like the virgin Mary. Noone can say what her marriage was truly like, except herself and yet I find myself a little resentful that she basically blamed her infidelity on Elvis as if that made it all ok. Dont get me wrong, I watch this movie every time it is on tv, but, I watch it because I love Elvis, not truly because I want to feel sorry for a woman who has made millions off of a dead man who to this day is still putting out albums although he has been dead for 26 years. I will watch this movie over and over again if for nothing else than it is about Elvis and I love to learn more and more about him, but, I dont think that Priscilla was truly the complete victim that she made herself out to be, especially after reading the kind of person she was after she left Elvis. Why doesnt she write a book about that?