No idea where this flyer came from, but it floated to the top of one of our home crap-piles today.
This is from the 2008 Warren County, N.J., Farmers' Fair.
If you look closely, or click for a bigger view, you'll see the brief, blithe cover line:
"Elvis - July 28."
(It's the second line down, under the lawn mower races.)
Wot? The King came back just to play to prize Holsteins in an area of western New Jersey so remote it doesn't even have an exit number?
Of course, if you open the thing, the full truth is revealed: The schedule of events says "Ryan Pelton as Elvis."
(What was it Tom Waits said? "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.")
I personally enjoy such naive shenanigans and/or bald-faced deception, but I imagine Elvis Presley Enterprises would be somewhat less tickled.
Hey, on a side note:
If you were an Elvis impersonator, and you legally changed your name to Elvis (or were lucky enough to be given the name at birth), could Elvis Presley's estate stop you from billing your performances as "ELVIS" or "ELVIS ON STAGE"?
What's the case law on that?
Surely someone, somewhere, has tried it.
Which reminds me of this short-lived spat between Bill Wyman the rock star and Bill Wyman the music critic.
Read it -- it's hilarious, especially paragraphs 7 and 8.
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Of course, the best thing about Bill Wyman, the erstwhile Stone, was when his son was dating the mother of his teen bride, thus creating the possible scenario of his becoming his son's step-son.
Yeah, that was skeevy.
Kinda like how Mike Love was both Dennis Wilson's first cousin and his father-in-law for a year or two.
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