- Lisa Presley's Letter of Acknowledgement for the GMA's Induction of Elvis into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame
(Elvis Presley: the Official Site Fan Club Newsletter, November 27, 2001)
The following is Lisa Presley's letter of acknowledgement that will be
read at tonight's ceremony:
Gospel Music was a major part of Elvis Presley's life, both personally and professionally. Some of his finest work is embodied in his gospel recordings - work that brought him and generations of his fans - myself included - a great amount of joy, comfort and inspiration. He felt a calling to reach out to others in this way, using his fame in other fields to bring gospel music to new audiences. In doing so, he made a profound contribution to the industry, which you are
recognizing so beautifully and appropriately tonight.
I know how much his being inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of the Fame would mean to him and I wish he could be there to enjoy receiving this wonderful honor. I join all our family and friends and all my father's loyal fans in thanking you. I'm deeply proud of my father and I'm so proud to see his work in gospel music receive this great recognition.
Thank you and God bless you all.
Lisa Marie Presley
- Lisa Marie's new CD now due for release in early 2003
(Kansas City Star, October 23, 2001)
Lisa Marie's new CD on Java/Capitol should be released in early 2003. Also, Lisa Marie was caught up in this year's "Summer of the Shark." The National Enquirer ran a Sept. 25 story, "Lisa Marie Shark Attack Terror. Romantic Cruise with Nicolas Cage Is Cut Short." Complete with photos of Cage and Lisa Marie. Memo to folks who think Lisa Marie sleeps over at Graceland and that's why the upstairs is closed to the public: "No, she doesn't," Morgan says. "She selects a hotel in the area." The upstairs is closed because "Lisa doesn't want it open," Morgan says. "The upstairs was Elvis' private place, and she likes to keep it that way."
- Lisa Marie and Cage to marry
(www.thisislondon.co.uk, October 5, 2001)
Hollywood star Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley are getting married after just five months together because "life's too short". The family of Elvis's daughter says the terrorist attacks of 11 September had made the couple realise they wanted to be together. Elvis's cousin, the Reverend Rick Stanley, said: "From what I understand, the tragedy in New York and Washington made them both realise there are no guarantees in life. She told me directly: "Nic and I don't want to wait another minute. We're going to get married right away.'" Cage, 37, met Ms Presley, 33, at a party in New York last October and they became a couple in May, when Cage's divorce from actress Patricia Arquette was in its final stages.
- Star-struck: PHILLY MAKES THE 'A LIST'
By Stu Bykofsky
(Philadelphia Daily News, September 11, 2001)
MAKING CENTER City their own over the weekend were two Hollywood leading men - Mel Gibson and Nicolas Cage. Gibson made the scene with a male pal (reportedly a doctor) while Cage clung to current love Lisa Marie Presley. Also along for part of the ride was her daughter, Danielle, 12, and his son Weston, 10. ... Saturday night was a marathon as Nick, Lisa and the kids rolled into La Veranda (Pier 3) at 10 p.m. and were treated to a huge meal - a little bit of most everything on the menu. Lisa Marie was in jeans and a stylish blue T-shirt, while Cage was in a rust-colored Prada suit. After dinner (and dumping the kids and picking up friends in their limo), they zoomed to Zanzibar Blue (Broad & Walnut) for a sampling of desserts (Lisa Marie loved the lemon meringue martini) washed down by drinks - Glenlivet 18 on the rocks for him, Belvedere for her. Then they were off to Warmdaddy's (4 S. Front), where musician Bobby Rush was held over for their 1:30 a.m. arrival. More Glenlivet for Nick, while Lisa Marie switched to Absolut and grapefruit juice. They left around 2, strolled past Swanky Bubbles (10 S. Front), which was closing but reopened for the star party. They asked for disco to be played, and Nick and Lisa Marie danced and nuzzled while the group guzzled four bottles of Cristal champagne ($400 each) and hung until about 5:30 a.m. (2:30 Left Coast time).
- Cage turns into cubist to get inside character
(USA Today, page 2E, August 3, 2001)
Nicolas Cage's secret to his success is to be "Master painter". ''I try to become a painting,'' Cage says. ''I learn from visuals, whether it be comic book art or Warhol or Botticelli, because film is a visual medium." ... Even Cage's infatuation with Elvis Presley, which has culminated with a romance with daughter Lisa Marie, fits this painterly pattern. ''I was trying to do an Andy Warhol-style performance in Wild at Heart,'' says Cage, whose Honeymoon in Vegas featured Presley wannabes. ''Andy would take these icons, like Elvis, and then color over them. I thought, 'How can you do that with acting?' I thought, 'Do what you're not supposed to do: imitate.' The first rule in (acting teacher) Stanislavsky is do not mimic. So I mimicked Elvis.''
- HE IS ONE! Ex-SMASHING PUMPKINS vocalist BILLY CORGAN has started work on a solo album
(NME.COM news, July 24, 2001)
Speaking in an interview with the local Chicago Tribune newspaper (July 22), Corgan, who has recently visited the UK to make a live appearance with New Order, said he is currently recording demos in a Chicago studio, with a view to starting an album proper by the end of 2001. ... Corgan said he has co-written a song for a forthcoming record by Lisa Marie Presley and elaborated on his work with '60s star Marianne Faithfull.
- Helping the homeless (3rd item)
By Don O'Briant
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 14, 2001)
Lisa Marie Presley cut the ribbon this week on the wrought-iron gates leading to Presley Place, a 12-unit, rent-free apartment building for the homeless in Memphis. Presley, the daughter of rock 'n' roll king Elvis Presley, donated $1.3 million to the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association to build the apartments near Elvis' mansion, Graceland. Presley Place is part of a collection of buildings where 65 homeless families can live up to one year rent-free while getting career, financial and parenting counseling. ''It isn't just putting a roof over their heads for a while,'' Presley said. ''These people actually want to change their lives.''
- Nothing Personal: JUICY BITS (4th item)
By Amy Reiter
(Salon, July 13, 2001)
Lisa Marie Presley's taste in men seems to be improving. Elvis' little girl, the ex-Mrs. Michael Jackson, is in the throes of a romance with Nicolas Cage. The duo made their public debut as a couple this week, arriving hand in hand at the dedication of Presley Place, in Memphis, Tenn., a temporary housing facility for homeless families. Just be glad they didn't call it Heartbreak Hotel.
- Lisa Presley to Open Presley Place
(Elvisology E-Newsletter, July 3, 2001)
On July 10, in a special ribbon-cutting ceremony Lisa Marie Presley will officially open Presley Place, the transitional housing facility for homeless families in Memphis, funded by the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation.
- Sharon Stone's hubby: 'Stop dragon my toe'
(Philadelphia Daily News, June 11, 2001 - 3rd news item down)
The strange marriage of Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette is officially over. Their divorce became final on May 18, according to Los Angeles court records and the New York Daily News. Cage filed for divorce in February of last year, then withdrew his suit when they briefly reconciled. Too good to last, though, because Arquette filed her own petition in November. Now Nic can focus on new galpal Lisa Marie Presley. Cage has longed for the ex-Mrs. Michael Jackson since her 33rd-birthday party in February. He attended with then-girlfriend, Penelope Cruz.
- Lisa's all shook up
(Womans Day, June 11, 2001, pp 8- 9)
Lisa Marie Presley publicly announced her romance with 37-year old Nicholas Cage on the day he obtained his honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from California State University, Fullerton. Cage, who describes himself as a "married bachelor", is interested in things Gothic and the dark side. The article describes them as "Hollywood's weirdest couple".
- CCHR New Exhibition Exposes 6.2 Billion Psychiatric Pills Given Children Each Year
(Excite news / PRNewswire, May 23, 2001)
More than 1600 people joined politicians and celebrities on Sunset Boulevard Friday evening to celebrate the grand opening of a new permanent Exhibition exposing psychiatric abuse. The exhibit includes a 10 feet high pill bottle representing the more than 6.2 billion psychiatric pills foisted off on 6 million children nationwide. Attending the opening was Lisa Marie Presley who stated: "I believe psychiatrists are creating an epidemic by labeling children with bogus mental disorders and then putting them on drugs. This is abhorrent to me." The Exhibit is part of the new international headquarters of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a psychiatric watchdog group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Dr Thomas Szasz.
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LEADING LADIES IN NEW LIGHT
By MEGAN TURNER
(New York Post, April 21, 2001)
A new coffee-table book, "Hollywood Moms," features some of Tinseltown's biggest stars in a supporting role - that of mother or daughter. Photographer Joyce Ostin, who is married to DreamWorks Records exec Michael Ostin, called on her Hollywood connections to assemble 50 candid pix of actresses, directors and performers. There's k.d. lang with her mother Audrey; Faith Hill and her two little girls; Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley; Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson; Tea Leoni and her daughter Madeleine "West" Duchovny. "I captured all the women in intimate settings," Ostin says. "It's a very unglamorous way in which I took them - it's more about the emotions between the mothers and daughters, rather than just photos of glamorous movie stars." A breast cancer survivor, Ostin will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the book - excerpts of which appear in this month's InStyle magazine - to breast cancer research.
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The Hardships of Making It
by Leah Garchik
(San Francisco Chronicle, Page C - 18, April 13, 2001)
(short sentence near the end)
" ... And online gossip Ted Casablanca says that Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley (reported herein to have been spotted at the Blue Bar recently) are an item.
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Lisa Marie Presley Is Single Again
(International Herald Tribune, April 3, 2001)
Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis's twice-married daughter and sole heir to the king of rock and roll's fortune, is single again. Presley, 33, and her musician fiance, John Oszajca, have parted ways, People magazine online reported. Presley, who has two children, divorced Danny Keough, another musician, in 1994 and later married the pop singer Michael Jackson. She met Oszajca in May 1999, and the two were engaged by Christmas after receiving permission from her mother, Priscilla.
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People in the news: It's heartbreak hotel for Presley's fiance
(Seattle Post-Intelligence, April 2, 2001)
The third time might've been the charm for twice-divorced Lisa Marie Presley. But she'll never know. Reuters reports that the sole heir to papa Elvis' estate has called it quits with her fiance, rock musician John Oszajca. Her publicist said he didn't know why Presley broke it off, but that she's not seeing anyone else right now. Presley, 33, became engaged to Oszajca in 1999. She first married musician Danny Keough in 1988. She divorced him 1994 and married Michael Jackson that same year, only to file for divorce two years later. Presley is currently working on her first album, for which no release date is set.
- LISA MARIE AND BEAU SPLIT
(National Enquirer, March 30, 2001)
Lisa Marie Presley is checking into the Heartbreak Hotel. Elvis' little girl has split with her fiance, musician John Oszajca, her publicist announced. The couple had been dating the for nearly three years and became engaged a few days before Christmas in 1999. Lisa Marie, now 33, was previously married to musician Danny Keough (with whom she had two children) for six years before they broke up. Three weeks after a quickie divorce in the Dominican Republic, The King of Rock 'n' Roll's daughter married the King of Pop -- Michael Jackson. She and Jacko divorced less than two years later.
- Michael Jackson goes to Oxford: Singer to speak about child welfare; also, appearance at Apollo Theater expected
By PHILIP MARTIN
(MSNBC, March 5, 2001)
Pop superstar Michael Jackson, his leg in a cast, hobbled into Britain for a brief visit to deliver a lecture on child welfare and be the best man at a psychic's wedding. The normally reclusive self-proclaimed "King of Pop", who broke his right foot in a fall at his California ranch last week, winced in pain as he negotiated a staircase at London's Heathrow airport before being whisked away in a limousine. Jackson's "Heal the Kids" charity - dedicated to "promoting nurturing relationships between parents and children" - was founded last year by the 42-year-old with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the author of titles such as "Kosher Sex". Members of the charity's board include former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Jackson's close friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor. Jackson, who has two children by former wife Deborah Rowe and was also briefly married to Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, will be the best man at the famed psychic Uri Geller's wedding on Wednesday. He is also expected to appear at the 10th annual Michael Jackson Day at London's Apollo Theatre on Wednesday evening, an event organized by his international fan club.
- SEZ WHO
(Cleveland Live / Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 28, 2001)
"I think there's probably more chemistry there than between Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley." Jon Stewart, who hosted this year's Grammy Awards, on the controversial duet between rapper Eminem and Elton John, to the New York Daily News.
- 'Graceland' is a shook-up shoot'em-up (film review)
By Mike Clark
(USA Today, February 23, 2001)
3000 Miles to Graceland stars Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner. It is a violent movie about a heist pulled off by a gang of Elvis look-alikes during a Las Vegas impersonators' convention. It "piles up corpses faster than Elvis piled up No. 1 singles in the '50s". Two hours is too long. "The movie nearly matches the Lisa Marie-Michael Jackson marriage for weirdness."
- Tabloid believers give Presley officer a giggle in Graceland
By HEARNE CHRISTOPHER JR.
(The Kansas City Star, February 18, 2001)
The recent unfounded rumour that Lisa Marie was selling Graceland to Michael Jackson sparked many e-mails to Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. and some amusement.
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