{"id":35810,"date":"2024-05-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35810"},"modified":"2024-05-23T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T21:05:02","slug":"reinventing-elvis-the-68-comeback-2023-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35810","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reinventing Elvis: The &#8217;68 Comeback&#8221; (2023) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z052424zview_reinventingelvis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Reinventing Elvis: The &#8217;68 Comeback <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>John Scheinfeld<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Scheinfeld<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Elvis Presley, Leslie Uggams, The Beatles, Harry Belafonte, Petula Clark, Darius Rucker<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley burst on the scene.\u00a0 He was an instant star and no one was bigger. Elvis was seen as a rebel by many and dangerous by some.\u00a0 By the mid 1960s, Elvis&#8217; star had faded.\u00a0 His music wasn&#8217;t hip and a string of bad movies had Elvis doubting himself.\u00a0 Then Elvis was signed for a television special.\u00a0 Steve Binder was set to direct.\u00a0 Binder had ideas for the production, but they were vetoed by Elvis&#8217; manager, Colonel Parker.\u00a0 Elvis faced a tough decision.\u00a0 Follow his manager&#8217;s directives or give the new guy a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis knew his career depended on the success of the special&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Reinventing Elvis: The &#8217;68 Comeback\u00a0<\/em>takes us behind the scenes with footage and stories from those who were there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s interesting to note that the parts of the special that were best received were those that Colonel Parker tried to veto.\u00a0 I had a pretty poor opinion of Parker before this documentary and after viewing it, my opinion dropped even further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was ten years old when the special aired.\u00a0 I can remember adults talking about how &#8220;cool&#8221; Elvis was in it.\u00a0 Yeah, Elvis was back, baby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>Reinventing Elvis: The &#8217;68 Comeback <\/strong><\/em>(2023) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z052424zview_reinventingelvis2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reinventing Elvis: The &#8217;68 Comeback (2023) Director: John Scheinfeld Screenplay: John Scheinfeld Stars: Elvis Presley, Leslie Uggams, The Beatles, Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,72,54,64,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-music","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35811,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions\/35811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}