Elvis Presley Enterprises

MEMPHIS — For rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena, New York comes first. Next are Graceland and Las Vegas. Pena is set to arrive in New York today to attend Sunday’s New York City Marathon after officials invited him. Word is the triathlete wants to run it. The 34-year-old Pena’s trip to New York also will include a scheduled appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman,’’ televised tonight. But the star treatment won’t end there. Yesterday, Elvis Presley Enterprises said Pena accepted an invitation to Graceland, set for Jan. 6 to Jan. 9, which coincides with the...

MEMPHIS — For rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena, New York comes first. Next are Graceland and Las Vegas. Pena is set to arrive in New York today to attend Sunday’s New York City Marathon after officials invited him. Word is the triathlete wants to run it. The 34-year-old Pena’s trip to New York also will include a scheduled appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman,’’ televised tonight. But the star treatment won’t end there. Yesterday, Elvis Presley Enterprises said Pena accepted an invitation to Graceland, set for Jan. 6 to Jan. 9, which coincides with the...

MEMPHIS -- A new king is poised to take over the King of Rock 'n' Roll's estate. Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. has an agreement to sell 85 percent of its assets to businessman Robert F.X. Sillerman, founder of promoter SFX Entertainment, it was announced yesterday. The estate was inherited by Presley's only child, Lisa Marie Presley. Sillerman is forming a new company, CKX Inc., to take over the business of the estate. Current estate managers referred to the sale as a "new partnership.

MEMPHIS -- The thousands of Elvis Presley fans descending on Memphis for the 30th anniversary of his death Aug. 16 won't see much sign of it, but plans are moving along for big-time changes at Graceland. Managers of Presley's famous home want to overhaul its tourist complex -- with a new visitors center bigger than a football field, a convention hotel, and high-tech museum displays that can give a new, digital life to the King himself. All it will take to bring about those wonders is $250 million or so; the total reorganization of CKX Inc., the New York-based company that controls all things...

LONDON -- They're all shook up in the Scottish village of Lonmay. A Scottish writer's assertion that Elvis Presley's ancestors came from a quiet corner of northeastern Scotland has fixated fans and brought batches of journalists to the village near Aberdeen. Mindful that Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis gets more than 1 million visitors a year, the Aberdeen and Grampian Highlands Tourist Board has seized on the prospect of a Presley connection with delight. "It could be really good for tourism," said Ian Hainey, spokesman for the tourist board.

MEMPHIS -- The thousands of Elvis Presley fans descending on Memphis for the 30th anniversary of his death Aug. 16 won't see much sign of it, but plans are moving along for big-time changes at Graceland. Managers of Presley's famous home want to overhaul its tourist complex -- with a new visitors center bigger than a football field, a convention hotel, and high-tech museum displays that can give a new, digital life to the King himself. All it will take to bring about those wonders is $250 million or so; the total reorganization of CKX Inc., the New York-based company that controls...

If you take CBS's word, little in pop culture is of more interest than Elvis Presley. We're all shook up about the King. Forget about the fact that Elvis Presley Enterprises is shrewdly re-asserting itself in the market, since Lisa Marie Presley recently sold most of her father's estate. Forget about the fact that CBS is pumping two Presley events, the two-part miniseries "Elvis" and next week's documentary "Elvis by the Presleys," to help win May sweeps. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

A gospel concert and a cake-cutting ceremony will highlight the celebration of Elvis Presley's 77th birthday in Memphis in January. Elvis Presley Enterprises said Tuesday that the celebration of the late singer's birthday will run from Jan. 5 through Jan. 8. Elvis was born in Tupelo, Miss., on Jan. 8, 1935, and he moved to Memphis with his parents in 1948. He died in Memphis on Aug. 16, 1977, and next year marks the 35th anniversary of his death. Birthday events will include a Jan. 7 morning gospel concert featuring former members of J.D. Sumner & The Stamps, who...

Many and all too various are the artistic sins that can be laid at the door of Hollywood. Not least among them is how gruesomely it misused the talents of Elvis Aron Presley. Thirty-one feature films, and all of them awful. All right, a few are somewhat less awful. "Viva Las Vegas" (left) beside having the best Elvis-movie title song (thank you, Doc Pomus ), isn't all that bad; there's a definite combustible chemistry between Elvis and Ann-Margret. Usually, he sleepwalks through these movies, and who can blame him?

If you take CBS's word, little in pop culture is of more interest than Elvis Presley. We're all shook up about the King. Forget about the fact that Elvis Presley Enterprises is shrewdly re-asserting itself in the market, since Lisa Marie Presley recently sold most of her father's estate. Forget about the fact that CBS is pumping two Presley events, the two-part miniseries "Elvis" and next week's documentary "Elvis by the Presleys," to help win May sweeps. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

MEMPHIS -- A new king is poised to take over the King of Rock 'n' Roll's estate. Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. has an agreement to sell 85 percent of its assets to businessman Robert F.X. Sillerman, founder of promoter SFX Entertainment, it was announced yesterday. The estate was inherited by Presley's only child, Lisa Marie Presley. Sillerman is forming a new company, CKX Inc., to take over the business of the estate. Current estate managers referred to the sale as a "new partnership.

LONDON -- They're all shook up in the Scottish village of Lonmay. A Scottish writer's assertion that Elvis Presley's ancestors came from a quiet corner of northeastern Scotland has fixated fans and brought batches of journalists to the village near Aberdeen. Mindful that Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis gets more than 1 million visitors a year, the Aberdeen and Grampian Highlands Tourist Board has seized on the prospect of a Presley connection with delight. "It could be really good for tourism," said Ian Hainey, spokesman for the tourist board.