Las Vegas (General) - Two LV Related Elvis Movies To Air On His 80th Birthday

RecVPPlayer

Dec 17, 2014
8:39am

Hi Group,

January 8, 2015 will be Elvis' 80th Birthday and to celebrate, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be airing Eight of his movies. Two of these movies deal in one way or another with Las Vegas. Those movies are: "Viva Las Vegas" (which is airing at 11:15AM Eastern Time/8:15AM Pacific Time) and "Elvis: That's The Way It Is" (this is a Restored version of the King's classic Las Vegas concert movie) which will be aired at 6:00PM Eastern Time/3:00PM Pacific Time.

The other six movies and their airing times are:

01). "Jailhouse Rock" (5:30AM ET/2:30AM PT);
02). "Live A Little, Love A Little" (7:15AM ET/4:15AM PT);
03). "It Happened At The World's Fair" (9:15AM ET/6:15AM PT);
04). "Girl Happy" (12:45PM ET/9:45AM PT);
05). "Kissin' Cousins" (2:30PM ET/11:30AM PT);
06). "Spinout" (4:15PM ET/1:15PM PT).

Enjoy!

RecVPPlayer

O2bnVegas

Dec 17, 2014
9:03am

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OK, HELP!

The movie with SJP and ??? on their honeymoon in Vegas. James Caan lures SJP to his private HI island, then she comes to her senses, latches onto a cadre of "flying Elvises" on their way to Vegas for an Elvis convention, to bring her back to Vegas to reunite with ???. Fun scene with all the flying Elvis's (of all types) (and SJP) parachuting into, is it Bally's?, in Vegas, where SJP and ??? reunite and everybody (except Caan) is happy again.

Similar to the one with Dimi Moore, Woody Harelson, and Robert Redford...can't remember the name of that one either! Much darker movie. Redford lures Woody to a card game, "wins" a night with Dimi. Almost breaks Dimi and Woody up but they get back together...I think. But I don't recall an Elvis in this one.

One of the two movies is "Honeymoon in Vegas." I think.

RecVPPlayer

Dec 17, 2014
5:08pm

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
OK, HELP!

The movie with SJP and ??? on their honeymoon in Vegas. James Caan lures SJP to his private HI island, then she comes to her senses, latches onto a cadre of "flying Elvises" on their way to Vegas for an Elvis convention, to bring her back to Vegas to reunite with ???. Fun scene with all the flying Elvis's (of all types) (and SJP) parachuting into, is it Bally's?, in Vegas, where SJP and ??? reunite and everybody (except Caan) is happy again.

Similar to the one with Dimi Moore, Woody Harelson, and Robert Redford...can't remember the name of that one either! Much darker movie. Redford lures Woody to a card game, "wins" a night with Dimi. Almost breaks Dimi and Woody up but they get back together...I think. But I don't recall an Elvis in this one.

One of the two movies is "Honeymoon in Vegas." I think.

Yes, the first movie is definitely "Honeymoon in Vegas." The male star was Nicolas Cage. And yes, that was Bally's. But they actually were not on their Honeymoon yet in at least the vast majority of that movie since they were not married since he had a great fear of getting married due to his mother.

Plus he (Cage) was the one who latched onto the "Flying Elvi" not SJP. She was already back in LV from her weekend trip with Caan. Her weekend trip to HI with Caan was due to Caan's "winning" time with her by beating Cage in a Poker game with several others including Basketball Coach Tarkanian formerly of UNLV.

And speaking of the Elvises of all sorts that you mentioned, during the scenes where the different Elvis impersonators were singing, check out that child who sang! That child is a very young Bruno Mars! I know that I've seen at least one clip of this scene with Mars on YouTube, so check it out if you're interested!

The other movie with Demi Moore, Robert Redford and Woody Harelson is "Indecent Proposal."

RecVPPlayer

O2bnVegas

Dec 18, 2014
8:23am

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Originally posted by: RecVPPlayer

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
OK, HELP!

The movie with SJP and ??? on their honeymoon in Vegas. James Caan lures SJP to his private HI island, then she comes to her senses, latches onto a cadre of "flying Elvises" on their way to Vegas for an Elvis convention, to bring her back to Vegas to reunite with ???. Fun scene with all the flying Elvis's (of all types) (and SJP) parachuting into, is it Bally's?, in Vegas, where SJP and ??? reunite and everybody (except Caan) is happy again.

Similar to the one with Dimi Moore, Woody Harelson, and Robert Redford...can't remember the name of that one either! Much darker movie. Redford lures Woody to a card game, "wins" a night with Dimi. Almost breaks Dimi and Woody up but they get back together...I think. But I don't recall an Elvis in this one.

One of the two movies is "Honeymoon in Vegas." I think.

Oh Yeah! Thanks, Rec, for straightening this out for me! I remember now, Nick Cage yelling SJP's name as he parachuted down to Bally's. And I remember his flashback of his mother making him promise he would never marry. I may have that DVD, so I'll look for Bruno Mars.

RecVPPlayer

Dec 18, 2014
11:53am

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You're very welcome and if you haven't seen it, a crazy Elvis and Las Vegas related movie is "3,000 Miles To Graceland" with Kurt Russel, Kevin Costner, Courtney Cox and David Arquette!

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RecVPPlayer

Dec 30, 2014
2:06pm

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And speaking of Elvis at 80, I just learned yesterday that this Saturday, 1/3/15 at 7PM Eastern/4PM Pacific is a new documentary on the Reelz Channel called "Elvis at 80," so check that out if you're interested!

RecVPPlayer

O2bnVegas

Dec 31, 2014
5:10am

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TCM is running "Elvis On Tour" tonight (12/31/14) at 7 pm CST. An early 1970s concert, behind the scenes tour stuff, etc.

Followed by "A Hard Day's Night", the Beatles 1964 musical comedy at 8:30 pm CST.

RecVPPlayer

Dec 31, 2014
10:33am

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
TCM is running "Elvis On Tour" tonight (12/31/14) at 7 pm CST. An early 1970s concert, behind the scenes tour stuff, etc.

This excellent movie (which is actually Elvis touring around the United States at different concert venues in Virginia, North Carolina and Texas between April 9 and April 18, 1972) is the only Elvis movie of any kind to win any award! It won the 1972 Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary!

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RecVPPlayer

Dec 31, 2014
10:43am

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
TCM is running "Elvis On Tour" tonight (12/31/14) at 7 pm CST. An early 1970s concert, behind the scenes tour stuff, etc.

Followed by "A Hard Day's Night", the Beatles 1964 musical comedy at 8:30 pm CST.

This is followed by "Gimme Shelter" (the Rolling Stones Concert Movie) and then followed by "Tommy" by The Who.

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RecVPPlayer

Dec 31, 2014
1:31pm

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
TCM is running "Elvis On Tour" tonight (12/31/14) at 7 pm CST. An early 1970s concert, behind the scenes tour stuff, etc.

The movie "Elvis: That's The Way It Is" is actually more of the early 1970's stuff that you mentioned as it was filmed from concerts in Las Vegas at the International (now very recently renamed the Westgate) between August 10-13, 1970.

"Elvis On Tour" picked up on the success of "Elvis: That's The Way It Is." The information about this is coming from my relating the Wikipedia entries on these two movies.

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