Buffy’s Reviews > Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley > Status Update

Onstage presence is depressing everyone (fans still love him though); bills for all the spending catching up; spends birthday more or less alone as he's withdrawing more and more; Linda decides its time to leave; brings Larry Gellar back; fires Red and Sonny with Vernon and the Col.'s approval; Red Sonny immediately devise plan to write a tell all; Ginger Alden (gold digger)

Increasingly unwell emotionally and physically, hospital stays; Vernon heart attack; buys the plane that he names the Lisa Marie; girlfriends mainly to keep him company; spending wildly to make up for his behavior at times; bass player quits over being bullied on stage, Kathy too; Sweets (exception of Myrna) walk off stage one night; deep depression worsening; self destructive behavior increasing

Ups but more downs; pharma use clearly evident to fans; rants during shows; Priscilla stunned as he had always used music to excercise his feelings and opinions; karate movie; buys Schilling, who is dating Myrna (Sweets b/u singer) a house. All in all his demise is unfolding very quickly in front of everyone to see. (;__; )

Blatant unhappiness showing in performances, drug use becoming known public; still depressingly unfocused in the recording studio; malaise; Peruvian 'fans' rush the stage, Elvis takes a karate stand and defends himself, in a rage continues the show; gets the thought Mike Stone sent the guys and asks Red to hire a guy to kill Mike but thankfully backs out; fires "that bald headed bastard" then takes him back

Tours, wildly successful in NYC (finally); seperation from Priscilla public; depressed mood; increases use of pharmaceuticals; records Burning Love; meets/begins to date Linda Thompson

More wild spending; conned Nixon out of giving him federal agent badge--and for his crew; rifled through Nixon's desk for gifts for the wives;increasingly disinterested/unfocused in the studio; glaucoma diagnosis; Joyce Bova

Death/kidnapping/bomb threats; daliences with Kathy and Barbara, TTWII filming