{"id":38065,"date":"2024-12-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38065"},"modified":"2024-12-28T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:00:50","slug":"the-kings-of-tupelo-a-southern-crime-saga-2024-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38065","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga&#8221;\u00a0(2024) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z122824zview_kingsoftupelo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga<\/em>\u00a0(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Chapman Way, Maclain Way<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevin Curtis had to give up his career as an Elvis impersonator when he married and started a family.\u00a0 Curtis got work as a janitor at the North Mississippi Medical Center.\u00a0 When Curtis went into an off-limits area he told everyone who would listen that he found a severed head there. Ultimately Curtis was fired.\u00a0 Curtis claimed the hospital was involved in black market selling of illegally harvested human organs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Curtis became obsessed with conspiracy theories about the black market for human organs.\u00a0 Curtis reached out to Steve Holland, his local House of Representatives legislator.\u00a0 When Holland wouldn&#8217;t help Curtis, a feud developed.\u00a0 Curtis discovered that Holland owned several funeral homes.\u00a0 This led to Curtis&#8217; belief that Holland was involved in the human organs black market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Curtis became more obsessed with overlapping conspiracy theories his life crumbled.\u00a0 Curtis&#8217; relationship with his brother (also an Elvis impersonator) ended.\u00a0 After Curtis discovered his wife was cheating on him with James Everett Dutschke, they divorced.\u00a0 Dutschke was a member of mesa, a karate instructor and wanna-be politician.\u00a0 Curtis and Dutschke hated each other and each kept upping the ante in their feud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ultimately Curtis was arrested for sending Rican in a letter to President Obama, Judge Sadie Holland, and Senator Roger Wicker. \u00a0Curtis claimed he was innocent and Dutschke set him up.\u00a0 Dutschke said Curtis was unhinged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Dutschke and Curtis are known liars.\u00a0 This time one of them is telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you can get past the all over the place opening of <em>The Kings of Tupelo<\/em>, you&#8217;re in for a tale that is hard to believe.\u00a0 The over the top, Southern to the bone characters are real people that would fit nicely in a Joe Lansdale novel or <em>The Dukes of Hazard<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0I liked visiting, but wouldn&#8217;t want to live there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em>The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga\u00a0(2024) <\/em><\/strong>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.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\/z122824zview_kingsoftupelo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga\u00a0(2024) Director: \u00a0Chapman Way, Maclain Way Tagline: None. 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