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[SPEAKER_06]: Hicks, Nicks, sticks, picks.

[SPEAKER_06]: A podcast about Rob's movies with your hosts.

[SPEAKER_06]: Rob's Buak, and Josh Sroka.

[SPEAKER_06]: And now, ladies and gentlemen, let the show begin.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's a...

[SPEAKER_03]: I hate mistakes.

[SPEAKER_07]: I hate when you show up in costume.

[SPEAKER_03]: I hate when you don't.

[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't kill you to get a pair of glasses.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: We'll see eventually there'll be a movie and I'll show up in costume like you know.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, Hicks, Nicks, Picks, the service of the micro-marish show with Rob Spuek and Josh Shroka.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm the Rob that they talk about in the title that says these are my movies.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is truly one of my movies.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was, and I have here the actual VHS copy I bought in high school.

[SPEAKER_03]: and I would every time I had friends over and back then I had friends Josh.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'd try to talk them into watching it and invariably they were annoyed but they ended up enjoying it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh and as far as the glasses they are official Elvis glasses from Graceland.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not the cheap ones you buy at party city.

[SPEAKER_03]: These actually have a TCB on the what we call that the arm of the glasses.

[SPEAKER_07]: That would be the arm of the glasses.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah so they've got butt.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're not my medication.

[SPEAKER_03]: So from Elvis to Old Man, here we go.

[SPEAKER_03]: This week's movie is from 1964, the Elvis Presley Classic, Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Margaret William Demerist.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you know who William Demerist is?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's the guy in this movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's Mr. Martin, but he also played Uncle Charlie on my three sons and he goes back and he goes back to the 30s.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he's been around a while.

[SPEAKER_07]: I know who Elvis is.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's good.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's good when you know the most the most recognized person in the last hundred years.

[SPEAKER_07]: Rob, this is my first time experience out in Elvis.

[SPEAKER_07]: Besides.

[SPEAKER_07]: Elvis movie at all.

[SPEAKER_07]: Besides here in his music.

[SPEAKER_03]: Which I'm sure you don't listen to a lot.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, well, we'll get you, we'll get you one to, we'll put on a toe at this time, but we'll get you there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Say Zardinova plays the count.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, have you ever seen animal house?

[SPEAKER_03]: I have.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, he plays the mayor of the town in animal house.

[SPEAKER_03]: The guy that is opposite, Dean Warmer, he says, I don't want those drunken riots in my town.

[SPEAKER_03]: and then Nicky Blair as Shorty Farmsworth and Jack Carter, he plays the comedian that hosts the talent show at the end, spoiler alert, who is widely working, he recently passed, but widely regarded as one of the most unpleasant men.

[SPEAKER_03]: in show business.

[SPEAKER_03]: He was pretty much hated.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was directed by George Sidney.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why this surprises me.

[SPEAKER_03]: The screenplay is by a lady, Sally Benson, who also wrote some great classic film.

[SPEAKER_03]: She wrote Meet Me in St. Louis.

[SPEAKER_03]: She did this one.

[SPEAKER_03]: This will not surprise you.

[SPEAKER_03]: She wrote the sound of the script of Vivo Las Vegas in 11 days.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's an MGM movie, one hour and 25 minutes long.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, before we start, I'm going to tell you something that I feel will surprise you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love Elvis, that won't surprise you, but of all of his songs.

[SPEAKER_03]: Viva Las Vegas is one of my least favorites.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, but it's one of the most recognizable.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is, it's iconic, but if you think about it, it's very, it's a love song to a city, so it's fairly shallow.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's easy to grab on to because it's about Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you ever listen to the stereo mix of it, it's upsetingly bad.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was such a poorly made record.

[SPEAKER_03]: The other one I don't like very much is, is love me tender.

[SPEAKER_03]: other than that uh i think this is one of the strongest soundtracks he ever came out with but we'll talk about that later what came first the song or the movie oh this the song was written for the movie okay okay so i mean there was a mark of them yeah of course i mean what they would do is they would

[SPEAKER_03]: they used to ask Elvis especially when he got frustrated with his movies they say what's the new movie about and he'd say different city new girl 12 songs I fight a guy and then I get the girl that's every Elvis movie so this one only has 11 songs in it one was cut but yeah it's a pretty strong soundtrack all the way through so let us now examine the 1964 classic Vivo Las Vegas

[SPEAKER_03]: Now one thing I like is that it opens with the Bongo music over the MGM logo and Leo the Lion.

[SPEAKER_03]: and it opens with the song that Viva Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, it is actually a gorgeous movie, the color, the widescreen, and as someone who has been, we've twice been to Vegas together, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Once.

[SPEAKER_03]: Once, we had downtown grand, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: And you know the way the city looks, and this is all an old town Vegas, the captures of the strip at this era are beautiful.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and it's really really good looking at this montage.

[SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[SPEAKER_07]: And you go down the the scene and the casino is awesome because you'll hear the slot machines, but it's not the constant video game sound that you hear today.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's like bells and bells and dropping coins.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I love it.

[SPEAKER_07]: That makes it so much more of a big deal when someone wins.

[SPEAKER_03]: exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: This can be compared to the original Oceans 11 as not just a fine film on its own right, but a capture of an era in Vegas that is truly, truly gone.

[SPEAKER_03]: There was nothing like the win or the X caliber or circus circus.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was just lines and lines of hotels and casinos all on the strip.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's one of my favorite aspects of the film is sort of the capture and the background a lot of Elvis movies We're just called travel logs and I can only look at a travel log of Hawaii so many times But this is a travel log of Las Vegas, and I love it You see so many of the great hotels like the hotel freemont the horseshoe Wilbur Clark's desert in the pioneer club And of course a place that I'm quite familiar with the golden nugget, but

[SPEAKER_03]: If you look at where the golden nugget is in the opening sequence, you realize you're only about 1,000 yards from the downtown grant.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, but the town has grant wasn't there that.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, and it's not really much to look at anyway, but this is our neighborhood, Josh.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's going away, right?

[SPEAKER_07]: Did they fall backwards this week this year anyway?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because we didn't come this year.

[SPEAKER_03]: was they needed was all of our money and and the dollar hotdogs in the casino that was the difference the dollar hotdogs and the dollar tall boys.

[SPEAKER_03]: We see as the music fades race card driver slash singer and remember whenever you're talking about an Elvis movie it's always his occupation is always what he does in the movie slash singer because you know he's gonna sing.

[SPEAKER_03]: So like in jailhouse rock, xconvict slash singer.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, if they did a better job here with this thing in of it being like a reason to sing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not woven into the file.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Lucky Jackson arrives in Las Vegas, towing his race car.

[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like something out of the Jetsons.

[SPEAKER_03]: They say, oh, he built it himself.

[SPEAKER_03]: That modern looking car kind of comes off looking a little dated.

[SPEAKER_03]: He has no engine for the car, and I know you want to know why I chose it for this time of year.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's technically a July 4th movie, Josh, because the Las Vegas Grand Prix is July 4th.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: I see.

[SPEAKER_03]: It ain't exactly Yankee Doodle Landy, but it does have a connection.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, but you picked it way earlier than July 4 because you picked this movie two weeks ago.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but this is podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll have a tale.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: The only problem is he's going to enter this Las Vegas Grand Prix.

[SPEAKER_03]: The only problem is he doesn't have the motor.

[SPEAKER_03]: Got a beautiful car.

[SPEAKER_03]: No engine.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he walks into the casino.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's the Flamingo.

[SPEAKER_03]: He has input.

[SPEAKER_03]: possibly black hair.

[SPEAKER_03]: It does not move.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a color not found in nature.

[SPEAKER_03]: He looks around and has an amazing run at the crab's table and wins enough money to buy the engine, which is in Los Angeles.

[SPEAKER_03]: And as being looked over by his assistant and mechanic, Shorty Farmsworth, so he managed to raise the money, but he's still on a shooting budget and he's still in Vegas and he has his car, but no engine.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he stores his car at a garage, and while he's at the garage, he meets his main competitor, this is so obvious.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Italian Racing Count, Milo Mancini, and that is the guy that is played by Sayzar De Nova, who you know from Animal House.

[SPEAKER_03]: uh... the count offers lucky to quote unquote drive for him which doesn't mean he's going to drive his car it means he's going to block and drive defensively to make sure the count can win the last pick is great pre eldest says uh... one thing uh... i'm gonna win this race and i don't work for anybody and uh... i don't count second anybody so he turns it down which myths and myths the count a little bit so they're talking and at that point uh... they're actually under the car on one of those back

[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I believe it's a creeper.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is it really?

[SPEAKER_07]: I believe so.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: I just pulled that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I love the fact that it's a creeper right as Ann Margaret walks in and you don't even see your face.

[SPEAKER_03]: They just show her legs.

[SPEAKER_03]: And she is hyper-sexualized in this movie for 1964.

[SPEAKER_03]: They really are selling the fact that she is Anne Margaret and They both meet Rusty and she says she has a whistle in her car.

[SPEAKER_03]: She is by the way I can say this because I watched the original trailer.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, you know, it's okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: You don't have to say it

[SPEAKER_03]: The original trailer for the Vivo Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you know what the last words on the screen were?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a knockout.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I will.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's a knockout.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, she was and is a knockout.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so Lucky starts to flirt with her and offers to fix her car.

[SPEAKER_03]: But when his back is turned, the count lets Rusty slip away without getting her name or number.

[SPEAKER_03]: Stupid stupid because they're both interested in her so she's so beautiful They decide she's got to be a showgirl.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is what a small environment Las Vegas must have been 60 years is it 60?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, 60 years.

[SPEAKER_07]: Or Or how small minded these two guys are?

[SPEAKER_03]: There's that as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's that as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Elmo and Lucky, which by the way, I'd listen to that morning show.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wouldn't you?

[SPEAKER_03]: Elmo and Lucky or Lucky in the count?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: They go and visit all the shows at the strip.

[SPEAKER_03]: They go to the sand.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Thunderbird, the Stardust, the Flamingo, the Trapakana.

[SPEAKER_03]: and they end up at a mysterious and made-up club called Swingers, which is hosting a sons of the lone star state festival convention.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's all crazy people from Texas and they won't start the show to see if they have or as a show girl because these Texans are growing crazy.

[SPEAKER_03]: So in order to calm the crowd,

[SPEAKER_03]: Lucky things and a Texas medley the yellow rose of Texas and the eyes of Texas are upon you now I always thought this was sort of a weirdly chosen song almost like a Public domain song for Elvis to do the yellow rose of Texas, but it fits them as you said It's sort of fits the plot, right?

[SPEAKER_07]: He probably had no inspiration to write a Texas song

[SPEAKER_07]: I guess you're right, but I'll just didn't write any songs ever, but also if he's the storyline plot, and I can't believe I'm standing up for the storyline, but you are a babysitter for the movie, so it's okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: But if the plot is to calm down, these people from Texas, you gotta do a song they know.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're right, and you know what, it's perfect.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I also sort of put a pin in this for now.

[SPEAKER_03]: This nightclub called Swingers is a neat, neat set.

[SPEAKER_03]: The entire dance floor is a roulette wheel.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it actually looks like a pretty expensive set.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think this might have been Elvis's last,

[SPEAKER_03]: big budget a picture because the sets and everything do look good uh they clear the room they don't find rusty there so the next day they're back at the flamingo commiserating when the count uh and and Elvis i'm sorry i'm gonna call him Elvis sometimes they just can't help it

[SPEAKER_03]: The Count and Lucky, they spot Rusty.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's the pool manager at the hotel, of course she is, and she's wearing a bathing suit because again, they want to hyper-sexualize her.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're not going to make her like, you know, like someone in management that wears a smart outfit.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's going to be in a bathing suit.

[SPEAKER_07]: So I hope I lucked by managers in uniform.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's how I used to like all the management at radio stations, too, in a smart outfit or a bathing suit.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Elvis grabs a guitar which just happens to be there and tries to wear her by singing a great duet called The Lady Loves Me, but she doesn't know it yet.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, this is the second outfit she's in.

[SPEAKER_07]: Pretty much a swimsuit also.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And for this era, Elvis looks about his best.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to see here a theme that we will revisit later is that Elvis is actually singing a duet with his leading lady, which almost never happened, but Ann Margaret was such a star.

[SPEAKER_03]: They let her share the screen with him.

[SPEAKER_03]: So now they've climbed up to the high dive at this swimming pool.

[SPEAKER_03]: And no one sees this coming, right?

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, everyone, but Elvis.

[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone, but Elvis, lucky.

[SPEAKER_07]: Lucky.

[SPEAKER_03]: The gentlemen's all wet.

[SPEAKER_03]: because he fell into the pool.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, what happened is his bank roll that he wanted the crab stable fell out of his pocket into the pool.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is one of the plot points that troubles me the most.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know a kid finds it and ultimately the money gets sucked into like the pools intake, but

[SPEAKER_03]: The kid doesn't realize it's money, the kid is like five or six, and he's playing with the rubber band and gets rid of the money.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't you think even a five or six year old kid would realize he's holding him at $10,000?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, it's a very weak, like there's better ways that he can elost the money.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly, but I mean, it's an Elvis movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's not split died back hairs.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he has no money.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's broke again, and now Lucky and Shorty have to work as servers at the hotel to pay off their debt.

[SPEAKER_03]: The count keeps hitting on Rusty, but Lucky gets a date with Rusty, and she agrees to meet him at UNLV the next day.

[SPEAKER_03]: Nice location shot of the University of Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_03]: Rusty does a dance rehearsal when he gets there, and it is about as Anne Margarity as you can get.

[SPEAKER_03]: And if you've ever seen of Kristen Wigg on Saturday Night Live do her impression of Anne Margarity doing something, it's based largely on this.

[SPEAKER_03]: Very hip at the time.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it doesn't, does the dancing itself doesn't age very well, but she is truly a knockout.

[SPEAKER_03]: And you see the dancer in purple?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a young Michael Mehero.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, also a knockout.

[SPEAKER_03]: also knocked out.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Elvis Lucky comes to the UNLV and sees her dance, and he is smitten.

[SPEAKER_03]: And before the date, she says, well, I told everyone here, you have to do something, because I told him you were coming.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Elvis sings a, it's detectically a duet.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's called come on everybody.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think this is the best number in the movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Great song.

[SPEAKER_03]: And

[SPEAKER_07]: And he's sick and because he wouldn't dare.

[SPEAKER_07]: But now he's dancing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you know what?

[SPEAKER_04]: There's just a trace.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's just a trace of 1950's Elvis still in there.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's still moving his hips.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's still moving his legs.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's good to see all this go down.

[SPEAKER_03]: She is obviously very impressed with him.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so the date continues.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it is the longest one-day date ever.

[SPEAKER_03]: Could you believe the amount of stuff they got packed into one date?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's it's it's well, I guess they met 9 a.m. or whatever.

[SPEAKER_03]: So well, they would they would have to meet early because they went ski shooting.

[SPEAKER_03]: They wrote mini bikes.

[SPEAKER_03]: They did for some reason old western town cosplay.

[SPEAKER_03]: They took a helicopter ride above the Hoover Dam.

[SPEAKER_03]: They did some rear projection water skiing.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, with no money.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Rusty out does him at everything and it seems to me that they are falling in love.

[SPEAKER_03]: So back to Rusty's home, which they call an apartment, but to me it looks like a massive houseboat with 1960s lighting.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if it's a boat or an apartment.

[SPEAKER_03]: They meet her dad William Demeris, who we talked about earlier.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he actually Mr. Martin is the only name he's given.

[SPEAKER_03]: he takes a shine to lucky now when i bought this movie on blue ray on amazon you know i don't think amazon doesn't much anymore but they used to sort of track your uh... your your interest in a more more obvious manner they didn't like you know hide it in your facebook feed they would send you an email when after i bought viva las vegas they sent me an email that said we hope you're enjoying viva las vegas here are some other william demorous movies you might like

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, see, now they just listen to everything doing on in your home.

[SPEAKER_07]: So what movies you're interested in is very little.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I love the fact that they thought the reason I bought this movie was not Elvis Presley.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not even in Margaret.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just William Demerous.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think he's very good in this movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I'll tell you later.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know what, the whole cast is actually pretty good.

[SPEAKER_03]: Shorty is kind of a weak character, but everyone in the movie is a star.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Rusty gets ready for the date that's going to be an evening date the date continues and Lucky sings the prettiest song in the movie today tomorrow and forever which amazing to me was never released as a single.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's one of his prettiest songs that he ever did and it's a nice understated love song very very nice and they off they're back off to a club and although it's

[SPEAKER_03]: right down to the huge roulette wheel.

[SPEAKER_07]: I thought it was the same place.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if it is or not, but they're obviously we're using that set.

[SPEAKER_03]: But they hear there's a they were never a charting band and they were more of a like a destination band in Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_03]: They did a lot of lounge works.

[SPEAKER_03]: They were called

[SPEAKER_03]: the four, the Jubilee four, and they sing a song called The Clim, Elvis loved Las Vegas, so he knew of the Jubilee four.

[SPEAKER_03]: He got them in the movie, and if you listen to the outtakes, one of the backup singers on that song they sing is Elvis Presley.

[SPEAKER_03]: He was so excited to have them in the movie that he actually sang back up for them, which I think is pretty cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then they segue into another high energy dance number.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was released as a single with moderate success.

[SPEAKER_03]: What I say, which is a Ray Charles cover.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm not even going to say knock out here.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm going to say sexual.

[SPEAKER_03]: There is a sequence where they do close-ups of Elvis and Margaret back to, I'll let you see it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I'll tell them what you think.

[SPEAKER_03]: And also, these wacky back-up dancers are out of their mind.

[SPEAKER_03]: Here we go, watch this.

[SPEAKER_03]: When you have close-ups like that of the morning at each other, in 1964, you might as well be showing them banging.

[SPEAKER_03]: That is a very sexualized image, I think.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't you think?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And tasteful, but I mean, it is, you get to see close-ups of two very beautiful people.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I always thought that that was not as much as, like, it's not going over the top, but I think it's very, very smart direction.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, they do this song, it's great, it's sexy, there's upbeat dancing, there's flipping, and everything.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you watch closely, the girl that is dressed in the white shirt and black skirt is Terry Gart, who you would know later on in, well, it was a great letterman guess, but Mr.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mom and young Frankenstein, what else was she in?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, and of course, Tutsi, I think she got an Oscar nod in Tutsi.

[SPEAKER_03]: So this is one of her first things.

[SPEAKER_03]: And also, do you remember the song, Oh, Mickey, you're so fine.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're so fine to go on that song.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, Tony Basel is one of the dancers.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, this movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: So there's, you know, there's stars sprinkled about.

[SPEAKER_03]: However, after this world world world when 28-hour date, Rusty finds out from the count that racing is really quite dangerous and that Cal Howard was once the greatest racer who got killed in an accident during a race.

[SPEAKER_03]: so Rusty turns against racing and she hates the danger.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's also frustrated with Lucky's attitude towards money.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's very less a fair about money, whatever he wins, he can lose, whatever he loses, he can win back, she's a hard worker, she wants to settle down.

[SPEAKER_03]: She wants to have a little White House with the tree in the yard and she knows deep down Lucky can't change and they have their first sort of hiccup in the relationship.

[SPEAKER_03]: So she storms out,

[SPEAKER_03]: comes home frustrated and angry until there's a knock at the door and her father, Mr. Martin, takes delivery of a tree.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think this is probably your favorite quote of the movie because you actually quoted it to me.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is the part in the movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, it was like, this is ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_07]: because he is excited over a tree, dad, I got a tree.

[SPEAKER_03]: I got a tree and they do refer back to the tree and a couple of scenes and it's pretty funny.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I never would end it like this.

[SPEAKER_07]: And if you're dating someone, the tree was a great move.

[SPEAKER_07]: True.

[SPEAKER_07]: She's doing a conversation.

[SPEAKER_07]: Her excitement to tell her daddy that she got a tree.

[SPEAKER_07]: Just threw me off while I was watching it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, at least she's not calling her dad uncle, like they did in medical and 34th street.

[SPEAKER_03]: So meanwhile, the count, sensing that Lucky has no way to pay off his debt, offers to pay it off for him, and Lucky is angry because he's going to win, this is the first time we hear about it, the hotel employee talent show.

[SPEAKER_03]: Rusty hates his bravado and just assuming he's going to win because she's competing too, so she agrees to get back at Elvis She's going to have dinner with the count The count, Monsini, and they range for this romantic dinner for two in his hotel, and Oh, yeah, but it's not because of the talent show.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's because he says that he won't stop racing

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, but everything and but she's pissed that he just assumes that he's going to win the talent show, too.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I mean, everything is right on against him right a lot of stretches for one bait.

[SPEAKER_03]: I guess you're right.

[SPEAKER_07]: You're so proud to get you together.

[SPEAKER_03]: it's only been like three days in the movie maybe only two a lot of stuff this is a very busy life Elvis leads so during the dinner Elvis arranges to be the the major D or the server or the room service guy and he absolutely ruins everything he serves potato chips he blows out the candles saying they smell funny he showers them with champagne and ruins the date tremendous in a tremendous

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think at this point, Rusty is starting to enjoy what he did, and they smile at each other.

[SPEAKER_03]: The relationship is not over yet.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't understand why the candle allows it to continually.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he tries to shut it down, but he can't.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he finally kicks Elvis out, and then you hear from the balcony, I suppose, beautiful music from his homeland of Italy, and the song, Santa Lucia.

[SPEAKER_03]: Which of course is Elvis?

[SPEAKER_03]: We don't know it yet because it segues into a rocker called if you think I don't need you Which is not exactly a lot

[SPEAKER_04]: take a look in my eye.

[SPEAKER_03]: So the date is officially ruined and they're broken up and Rusty is a free agent although we kind of leave it with her liking Lucky Jackson.

[SPEAKER_03]: They go to the talent show and Margaret sings a song called Appreciation which is amazing because we've seen

[SPEAKER_03]: all these acts in Las Vegas on tiny little stages just you know like when we're doing the tour looking for her as a showgirl the stages are tiny now she's on something with like a seventy five foot percenium oh it's lighting and it is a huge talent show you know always get back up dancers for talent show

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right, and so she sings the song appreciation.

[SPEAKER_03]: It recalls the song Diamonds Our Girl's Best Friend that's sort of, I think, their inspiration.

[SPEAKER_03]: She has backup dancers and amazing dance routine.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the next act is lucky singing Vivo Las Vegas again.

[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, they wanted this to be a hit.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is the most energetic performance that you see from Elvis in the movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Two things to note here.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's moving around so much, his hair almost moves.

[SPEAKER_03]: They shot this in one long take, and this is the only time in Elvis's 33 movies that he ever sang one song one take without a cut.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is like seeing a real person.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I will say this, even though I still don't like the song, it's made better when you see Elvis sing it because he's performing it, but still it's the same song again.

[SPEAKER_03]: It turns out he ties with Rusty for the talent show, and so they flip a coin, Jack Carter's the host, lucky wins.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why they all thought they were going to get money because first prize was not money.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was a honeymoon to Las Vegas, kind of cheap, I guess.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I didn't get it because it's a talent show for people who work in Vegas and you're getting a trip.

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's in joke.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's in joke because it's such a bad prize that they're being traveled.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're being, you know, allowed to travel with someplace they already are.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's a great plot device because he doesn't have the money and Rusty wins a pool table, which is beautiful.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so they go one and two.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was very, very close.

[SPEAKER_03]: So a very sad Elvis walks away.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's got no money.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's got no car.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's got no woman.

[SPEAKER_03]: There you are.

[SPEAKER_03]: He still needs a...

[SPEAKER_03]: He needs money to buy the motor.

[SPEAKER_03]: He is alone and broke and invoiced over as he's walking.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know where he walks to?

[SPEAKER_03]: he walks back to the nightclub with the roulette wheel and that's where he's hanging out third use of the set and sings the song I need somebody to lean on which is actually quite pretty this is the third use of the set at Swingers this song has got like a bluesy feel with a taste of

[SPEAKER_03]: and it's great he sings this invoice over and that in the second party actually performs it in the movie but again you brought up a great point is that the fact that it starts out as in his mind doesn't make it as awkward as another musical moment in other movies when someone just might bust out singing or they do a much better job transition in the performances

[SPEAKER_03]: and later on in Elvis movies that also would not be the case.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he's feeling bad for his partner.

[SPEAKER_03]: Shorty has an idea.

[SPEAKER_03]: He shows up the next day he has the motor but they only have hears where the excitement comes Josh.

[SPEAKER_03]: They only have 12 hours to install the motor.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Mr. Martin shows up, he helps Rusty, he helps him install Rusty's man that her dad is helping out.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's angry enough to sing a song called My Rival and which she writes in ketchup on bread.

[SPEAKER_03]: She's very, very frustrated.

[SPEAKER_03]: And she bitches while making a huge picnic and then brings it to the garage with enough food and coffee for everyone, although she says it's just for a dad.

[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, she's feeding the entire crew because she still loves Lucky.

[SPEAKER_03]: She helps with the install, she's horrible, a lot of stupid sight gags, everything gets unplugged, people get squirted, oil in their face, we still just routine.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was, and you know, not badly done, but just maybe a little out of place.

[SPEAKER_03]: So the race gears up to begin, and the car, baby blue number seven, that's Elvis's car, is ready to go.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's more great vintage Vegas location shots.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love that the race started at midnight, so I got to show the city at night and then

[SPEAKER_03]: you never think about this.

[SPEAKER_03]: The race actually goes over Hoover Dam using Hoover Dam as a road, which was very, very cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: And of course, of course, they're able to borrow the helicopter again, so they can follow the race from above, which to me is only clever device to let them know if you have an aerial shot.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's because there's a helicopter in the movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they made the

[SPEAKER_07]: the camera crews and telephone.

[SPEAKER_07]: They let everyone know how they'll of course.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so there are there are thrilling crashes and near misses and amazingly, this was probably the biggest surprise in the film to me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Lucky Jackson wins the Las Vegas Grand Prix and at that point, Shorty reveals that Mr. Martin was the guy who funded the engine, but Rusty must be okay with it because they get married, Rusty and Elvis, I'm sorry, and Margaret and Elvis, Rusty and Lucky

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right, and again, Lucky sings Vivo Las Vegas three times in an 87-minute movie What you want it's it's marketing Brandon it's I suppose it's the I think it's the most overuse of a theme songs Until that thing you do the Tom Hanks movie about the wonders.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I love it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love it But you're right that song so many times in the movie, so you really Brandon it's yeah, you're head just like this one is

[SPEAKER_03]: So he performs it again and Finn.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, this was many people say it was Elvis's greatest movie because Anne Margaret was one of the few co-stars that could match Elvis's screen presence, creating a spark that still jumps off the screen more than 60 years later.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, before we get into your thoughts on the film and before we take a short break, I want you to, if you would, comment on the chemistry on screen between Elvis and Anne Margaret.

[SPEAKER_07]: They're great.

[SPEAKER_07]: Outside of the music, they're the best part of the movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: And Elvis is, I expected Elvis to be a really bad actor.

[SPEAKER_07]: And he is fine in this case.

[SPEAKER_07]: And they play off each other so well that it just works for the entire 90 minutes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Great.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: So let's take a short break and we'll get into some of the details even I have a few problems with the movie and then we'll get our ratings and we'll do all that.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is Hicks and X sticks picks and we will be back right after this.

[SPEAKER_03]: Back, part two of Viva Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_03]: Never made a sequel to it, by the way.

[SPEAKER_03]: Viva Las Vegas on Hicks and Hicks takes pics with Rob's B-Wack and Josh Stroke up.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right, right, right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the movie, I would describe, just let me give you this to Riffleville.

[SPEAKER_03]: I would describe this as a perfect, not even a popcorn flick.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is a cotton candy movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: There is so little drama, even in the car race, where people are dying, there's so little drama in the thing you don't have any trouble with any characters you care about, it's just a light-hearted story told light-heartedly with great music.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think the movie lacks any sort of serious conflict that could make it go there?

[SPEAKER_07]: There's many ways to make it a better movie, but this was never set out to be like this amazing movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is this is for Elvis fans to sell more Elvis stuff and they got they got a little lucky with Anne Margaret That's you fit so well it reminds me of modern I movies when I went a couple weeks ago and saw the breadwinner in theaters the night broke off.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, that's not a great movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's what he is a lot of storylines like a word though, isn't he?

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, but it's the same thing where the storyline is the weakest thing you could put together in order to showcase Nate Bergazzi's jokes.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's the story line to show off Elvis and I mean it works because the other thing is for someone who

[SPEAKER_07]: has never seen this movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: Most of the songs I've heard before, because they're Elvis, and they then built it off this movie into this.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're in our psyche as a people.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think one of the reasons it works so well is the third great I mean Elvis is obviously the character to watch and Margaret is perfect on screen.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think the third best character in the movie is the city.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, it's, it's so well done.

[SPEAKER_03]: I can compare it to the first Ghostbusters.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've never talked about it on this show, but it's just New York.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, New York is a character in the first Ghostbusters as Las Vegas is here.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Also, I've said for a long time that there are very few things that are as exciting as when Elvis did a project that he really cared about.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, if you go like into the late 60s when he's doing songs that he didn't care about and movies he didn't care about,

[SPEAKER_03]: It could almost be cringeworthy when in the late 60s and 1970 when he started back on stage in Las Vegas and he was selling records that he loved again like suspicious minds and don't cry daddy and all these These rubber neck end was one he loved as well that enjoyed success later when he tried

[SPEAKER_03]: he was even when he didn't try was pretty good but when he really tried he was amazing and you see him really working in this movie and i think and i have some facts to back it is because he didn't want to not shine next to Anne Margaret

[SPEAKER_03]: he wanted to keep up with her.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's tough.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so you see him really what to appoint that he they were Colonel Tom Parker his crooked and evil manager actually counted screen time down to the second that they were in the movie to make sure Elvis had at least as much or more screen time than and Margaret because it was in the contract.

[SPEAKER_03]: so i mean obviously this was something that was definitely on his mind everyone knows this now that uh... and Margaret and Elvis were dating which is a very polite way to say it during pre-production and during the movie it was in all of the it was in all the papers judge i mean they were preparing for their roles

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I suppose it's prep.

[SPEAKER_03]: It went so far as the fact that they had the equivalent of TMZ back then, whatever it was.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, they were able to sneak some pictures of the final scene at the wedding chapel, and they released them saying that Elvis and Margaret got married in real life.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, it was a big deal.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, everyone was okay with this except for one person.

[SPEAKER_03]: A young lady back in Memphis named Priscilla Presley.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: I could see that being the next you.

[SPEAKER_03]: She was wildly upset because although, you know, he'd made a ton of movies with a lot of good-looking women, this was the first time that the relationship was the story.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, something about Priscilla that you might want to keep in mind, she was born in 1945, which means she was 18 or 19 when this movie came out.

[SPEAKER_03]: However,

[SPEAKER_03]: she met Elvis when she was 14 and when she was 16 Elvis moved her away from her family to live at Graceland saying that her dad would take care of it and make sure everything was okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: They would eventually marry in 1967, but that does not really account for the five years that they were living together.

[SPEAKER_03]: and, uh, fooling her family.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, she had her eye on the prize of getting married to Elvis Presley, and when she saw this, it really, really upset her and caused one of the first big riffs in their relationship.

[SPEAKER_03]: Which I think is understandable.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think that's all right.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think you can be mad if you're being cheated on.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that works.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're allowed.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was the biggest grossing movie for Elvis Presley.

[SPEAKER_03]: It topped Blue Hawaii by over $450,000, which was a lot of money back then.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is amazing.

[SPEAKER_03]: In 1964, if you say that year to any music, historian, they'll say that's the year of Beetlemania.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's when the Beatles had like at times like,

[SPEAKER_03]: 10 of the top 15 records in the world were both records and they also that year released a great movie that we may someday look at called a hard days night, but this outgrossed a hard days night by three million dollars.

[SPEAKER_03]: So even though Beetlemania was crazy and at the top of its game Elvis still had a toe hold in Hollywood and I think Ann Margaret was a lot of that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think that if he had done another movie with Anne Margaret, could he have prolonged his career?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because after this, the movies are down, down, down, down, down.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, yeah, I think those two could have made ten movies together.

[SPEAKER_07]: Like you see some, like, like, held in the 90s, it seemed like it was Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and actually we together, these two could have done the same thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: almost every decade has a hot Hollywood couple that could do it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure Priscilla would be into it, but they have such a magic on screen together.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like normal throwaway dialogue, there are like long pauses where they're just like staring at each other.

[SPEAKER_03]: If it wasn't so obvious that they were, I don't even want to call it love, but they were into each other.

[SPEAKER_03]: It would be creepy because there is that sort of electricity coming off the screen with them.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's like Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but this was real.

[SPEAKER_07]: That was just fake together to go see the movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Some theaters actually put Ann Margaret's name above Elvis on the on the marquee.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's, it's just, but also you're selling a movie.

[SPEAKER_07]: So that makes your right.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're absolutely right.

[SPEAKER_03]: You put the movie start there.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it was,

[SPEAKER_03]: it was a troublesome and the kernel really had a problem with it.

[SPEAKER_03]: The one person who didn't have a problem with it was Elvis.

[SPEAKER_03]: He was a big fan.

[SPEAKER_03]: Even though they didn't really see each other romantically after this movie, the set broke and everything.

[SPEAKER_03]: He would still send her flowers every opening night when she opened a show in Vegas.

[SPEAKER_03]: She was, I believe, the first celebrity to fly to Memphis when Elvis died.

[SPEAKER_03]: They loved each other till the very end.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's really, really, I think you can see that in this movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know one reason you loved it is it's the shortest movie of Elvis's career.

[SPEAKER_03]: At 85 minutes.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is short.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's also a fast-paced.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's, there's no dragon scenes.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's Bang, Bang, Bang.

[SPEAKER_03]: Could you believe that they got 11 songs into that movie?

[SPEAKER_03]: and one they did three times.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean it worked.

[SPEAKER_07]: They slay them in there, but it worked.

[SPEAKER_03]: It did.

[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of them are edited down if you buy the soundtrack.

[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, this movie never had an official soundtrack because the director and Colonel Tom Parker hated each other.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so one of the great ways to make money on Elvis's end was to put out a soundtrack album.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was like another million dollars in their pocket.

[SPEAKER_03]: They never put out a soundtrack album.

[SPEAKER_03]: They put out two EP's, which was a 45 RPM record with four songs on it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So there was maybe 5 or 10 years ago, they did put out all of the Viva Las Vegas sessions, which is like buying the soundtrack, but it is the fact that they did not have an album for it for so many years is crazy.

[SPEAKER_03]: It might be overall his best movie soundtrack consistently all the way through.

[SPEAKER_07]: But now it means his family can make even more money.

[SPEAKER_07]: And can you make money?

[SPEAKER_03]: They needed the money.

[SPEAKER_03]: They always needed the money.

[SPEAKER_03]: Also, one of the reasons that I've left is that on every other Elvis movie, it says technical advisor, Colonel Tom Parker.

[SPEAKER_03]: It says that in the credits, which was just to give himself a title and a story on every picture.

[SPEAKER_03]: This director, George Sidney, hated the Colonel so much.

[SPEAKER_03]: didn't give it to him.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is the only Elvis movie that doesn't give the Colonel credit.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, this was the first adult role that Anne Margaret played.

[SPEAKER_03]: She was a teenager and pocket full of miracles.

[SPEAKER_03]: She was a teenager and by-by-Burdy, which by the way is a movie about essentially a musical about Elvis going off to the army.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, she worked with fake Elvis in by-by-Burdy.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, they wanted to emphasize the fact that our girls all grown up now.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's one of the

[SPEAKER_03]: And in 1964, if you were a young lad, I think you might want to see this movie two or three times.

[SPEAKER_03]: Regardless of the fact that all of us, and it or not, I feel and you watch this movie a lot by yourself.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, I've run out of people to watch it with you.

[SPEAKER_03]: Were you not a little gobsmacked by Anne Margaret when she danced and just how appealing she is?

[SPEAKER_07]: I think gobsmacked would be a stretch.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, what word would you use in France?

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, she's a pretty girl, but most leading ladies are.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I think she's I think she's a little bit next level.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have a picture of Anne Margaret in my home, no shock, but the fact that she is literally a triple threat with the singing and the dancing and the acting and then the actual beauty on top of it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Especially at that time for an Elvis keep in mind Elvis had other leading ladies like the girl who played Batman in the TV show Batman Ivan Craig very pretty, but certainly not and Margaret all right so we covered some things that we like what problems Did you have and this is exciting to me because you've never seen an Elvis movie before

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I've never seen Elvis.

[SPEAKER_07]: Actually, I have no issues with Elvis.

[SPEAKER_07]: I would.

[SPEAKER_07]: All I wanted to do in this movie was hate on Elvis.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I can't.

[SPEAKER_07]: I can't hate on Elvis.

[SPEAKER_07]: He's great.

[SPEAKER_07]: It blends to music great.

[SPEAKER_07]: The movie is so predictable.

[SPEAKER_07]: There's so many little plot holes where it's like you didn't even think about how to get on that.

[SPEAKER_03]: there's some great cheesy dialogue like the movie is so slick you are inclined to overlook the bad writing right because it just moves it really there's no downpoint in it

[SPEAKER_03]: except maybe the yellow rose of Texas.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I feel like every time I go get my car fixed at the shop, it's like when Elvis looked at it where nothing's really wrong, but that's just break it anyway.

[SPEAKER_07]: When was it to stay here three days?

[SPEAKER_03]: When you see your mechanic and he's on the creeper?

[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_07]: He rolls out and had creeper in to see the money signs on me.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've been there myself.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've been there myself.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, any other problems you have with it?

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there's some of the problems you say, I think are actually kind of benefits of the movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: now the problems are just that it's a dated movie yeah it's it's it's got its own massage in the and gender role issues like um like her job has to be in a swimsuit exactly exactly and her or basically her performance at the talent show also in a swimsuit right right yeah now do you think this movie I don't know when a movie stops being dated and starts being a time capsule

[SPEAKER_03]: Does that make any sense?

[SPEAKER_03]: I think like when you watch we've watched a really okay, but like when we watched say I can't say duck soup because that was a fantasy movie, but like Casablanca Obviously there's so many dated things in it right everybody's smoking everybody's drinking no one goes to nightclobs anymore I as far as I know we're no longer in world war two we're in another war, but

[SPEAKER_03]: That stops being dated and it starts being a capture of that time.

[SPEAKER_07]: But I think it's still dated.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think time caps won't dated would be the same.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I wonder about that because there are movies that are horribly dated and like for example Well, they got us in power time capsule.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Austin Powers movies are meant to be time capsules and they're purposely dated But because it's a recreation of the 1960s.

[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't work for me But if you look at this and if you look at the other the other Vegas movie I commented on before the original Oceans 11

[SPEAKER_03]: that is a time capsule maybe because this is that awesome powers as a dated time capsule of what comedy was like in the 90s and you're not giving it a 1960s thing you're making it a capsule of the 90 okay that point take it when it was made point taken the when you watch this and also in oceans 11 to see and hear a casino of that era that's something that doesn't exist anymore no no that guess is the best part of the movie

[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's so much fun and it is a good, it is a really good setting, Elvis loved Las Vegas and he was a regular there even before he started performing there.

[SPEAKER_03]: And now I've got to be very good at what I say because my mom just walked in because we're going to Costco after this.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was like you.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right, no problem.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's not right.

[SPEAKER_07]: Watch out for the

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you have any, I mean, you've said a lot of things.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you have any favorite things?

[SPEAKER_03]: I would imagine one of your favorite things is you were surprised that you didn't hate it.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, my favorite thing is I didn't hate it and I didn't hate Elvis that I enjoyed Elvis.

[SPEAKER_07]: I thought Elvis was fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, good.

[SPEAKER_03]: And there are other Elvis movies where he's fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's every, no, I'm okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you got your tip.

[SPEAKER_03]: You got your fill.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't need another.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love the fact that he said that he's actually a good actor.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because there are movies where he really does act like serious roles.

[SPEAKER_03]: They still have music in them, of course.

[SPEAKER_03]: But he was a good actor and that's what he wanted.

[SPEAKER_03]: His idol was Marlon Brando and also James Dean.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what he wanted to do.

[SPEAKER_03]: But

[SPEAKER_03]: There was a producer in the 90s that why he speaks so soft Yep, because those guys did yeah, yeah, I mean he was mumbly and I mean he didn't overdo it unless it was a comedy scene We've actually watched a how to how to how Wallace pictures I believe Casablanca and Yankee doodle dandy so that's

[SPEAKER_03]: how long how how that's how long how Wallace has been in Hollywood, but he started putting out Elvis movies three a year because they were cheap and he could make the money on them to make big budget pictures.

[SPEAKER_03]: One of them was Beckett.

[SPEAKER_03]: He often said that Blue Hawaii paid for Beckett because it made so much money for him.

[SPEAKER_07]: And you still hear directors doing movies are not really into because it allows them to do what they're passionate about.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's one of the reasons, I mean, how Wallace made a lot of great movies, but it's one of the reasons that Elvis sowered on the entire Hollywood lifestyle, you know, he turned down while he was made to turn down the lead, the male lead of Tony and Westside story.

[SPEAKER_03]: And as mentioned, I don't know, I'm not going to make you watch it.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, but I just don't think Elvis should be in any movie that it's not Elvis.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, here's what I want you to take on and I think you may, I think you might have seen the most recent one, but the third version of a star is bored the one with Barbara Streisand he was supposed to play the over the hill rock and roller that and maybe that would work.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I always had a thought that might have been a really good comeback vehicle for him.

[SPEAKER_03]: However, he was very sick at the time, he was huge, he was embarrassed of the way he looked, and also Colonel Tom Parker did not work well with Barbara Streisand.

[SPEAKER_03]: They were just a little too pushy together.

[SPEAKER_03]: So, those never happened, but I think there are a lot of people that recognized him as an actor.

[SPEAKER_03]: And also, I've said it before, had this come out as a 12-song soundtrack album, it would have been a massive hit.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure it would have happened.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, some of his that are not as good like Blue Hawaii was one of the number one records of 1962 160 whatever it was.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was one of the top selling albums of the year and it wasn't that great So this one could have been I'm also shocked RCA didn't pull more singles for radio play I think only two from this movie anyhow any other things you want to say about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm I've a you know what I've done my modulation.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, I am ready to give my score

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, excellent.

[SPEAKER_03]: So now after seeing this movie, Viva Las Vegas, 1964, at one out of 10, 10, being the best.

[SPEAKER_03]: How many rubber bands that hold a lot of cash?

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you give this movie?

[SPEAKER_07]: We decide can we do halves or do I have to go whole?

[SPEAKER_03]: You can do halves, but nothing beyond how I'm not going to do quarters.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hi, then I am going to go six and a half.

[SPEAKER_03]: And amazingly high score.

[SPEAKER_07]: Way higher than I expected on this.

[SPEAKER_03]: I am now I am God's man.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now here's the problem.

[SPEAKER_07]: But the Biffy's fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: So you can just put it on and relax and it's fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll tell you when I was writing the synopsis, it wasn't quite as taxing as writing the synopsis to say Casablanca.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was a very serious one.

[SPEAKER_07]: The fun increases that score.

[SPEAKER_07]: Where I didn't want to give it a seven.

[SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[SPEAKER_07]: But it's better than some things I've given sixes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, since we're doing halves, I'll give it a nine and a half only because the concert movies are better.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I think as far as Elvis' acting movies, they're 31 of them.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is probably the most, well, it's easily the most fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's one of the best, but it's also the best on-tray into seeing Elvis.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Elvis loved on-trays.

[SPEAKER_07]: And what was your score for Anne Margaret?

[SPEAKER_03]: Anne Margaret, that is an 11.

[SPEAKER_03]: I already have one.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's right up here.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't make me choose between Anne Margaret and Jennifer Love You It.

[SPEAKER_03]: It would be a then I truly would need my own Creeper to just get out of the room.

[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, Anne Margaret 11, the movie with a decent score, and I hold in my hand, all you Hicks Nick sticks, Pixies, the movie for next week.

[SPEAKER_03]: I want again, encourage you all to watch the movie before we talk about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think it makes it a lot more fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I've changed this feature, Josh.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't be upset.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's called.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is where I get nervous.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Hicks Next Sticks Picks.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is the movie we're gonna watch next week and once again, it's sealed in an envelope.

[SPEAKER_03]: You have no idea.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is where I get nervous because this movie was barely in color.

[SPEAKER_07]: It wasn't color.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it was screaming in color.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was in color because it was in color.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was in color.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was in color.

[SPEAKER_03]: You would have had your, you would have gotten a ton of color.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was color and bright, but it was dated as if it could have been black and white.

[SPEAKER_07]: And now the concern is we're going older.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if this is black and white or not, I don't know what the movie is.

[SPEAKER_03]: The only person who knows it is a price water house who seals it in this envelope and well, to be honest, Josh doesn't know what I do.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know.

[SPEAKER_07]: See what next week's week is really nervous every time.

[SPEAKER_03]: My favorite part of the show.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's like the end of class when the teacher is going to give homework and you're praying.

[SPEAKER_07]: Don't forget.

[SPEAKER_07]: Don't forget.

[SPEAKER_07]: That it's just something stupid.

[SPEAKER_03]: Next week on Hicksticks, next Picks.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's gonna be good, Josh.

[SPEAKER_03]: No.

[SPEAKER_03]: the sweet smell of success.

[SPEAKER_07]: Now I've never heard of it.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's great.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's Berkeley.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, pastor and Tony Curtis before it was crazy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Screenplay by Cliff O'Death's and Ernest Layman music.

[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing music by Leonard Bern.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_03]: Elmer bird steam not Leonard.

[SPEAKER_03]: 1957 MGM pictures Josh 96 minutes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing to it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing to it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Run out to your store and buy the blue ray on Praetarian like I did.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I can tell from that picture.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's black and white.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is so black and white.

[SPEAKER_03]: It might be the most black and white movie we've ever done.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it does share this with Viva Las Vegas is New York is definitely a character in this movie.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it appears that New York only existed at night with wet streets.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so black and whitey and shiny and everything and if you make it out to the record store you can even buy the soundtrack on vinyl of the sweet smell of success.

[SPEAKER_03]: Josh don't poo poo this and must say to you with mocha emphasis do not poo poo it.

[SPEAKER_07]: Do you know I burnt Lancaster is in one of my favorite movies.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I bet it's field of dream.

[SPEAKER_07]: It is.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's exactly what I know that kind.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he's a little bit different in this one.

[SPEAKER_03]: He plays his paper guy based on Walter Winshal.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a, you know, it actually, while it might have seemed dated 20 or 30 years ago, it has a certain renewed, no validity because of the, you guys, it's not dated.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's now a time capsule.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, it has a renewed validity because of the thought of people being inserted into the press and us being forced to know about them in this opportunity and influence or age.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, almost no one had a cell phone in 1957.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it's different.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's the time for apples.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just the time for apples.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: But again, I kept it on 100 minutes.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_07]: What is the title again?

[SPEAKER_03]: the sweet smell of success.

[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: I believe you can stream it anywhere.

[SPEAKER_03]: So.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hold on.

[SPEAKER_07]: And if you want to watch BVLOPS Vegas, after listening to this, it's available on Tuby.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is it?

[SPEAKER_03]: And if you want to decide whether or not to watch it, Tuby or not Tuby, that is the question.

[SPEAKER_03]: Josh, thank you for another great week.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, he's.

[SPEAKER_03]: We'll be back soon with the sweet smell of success and Josh looking at Bert Lancaster before he had one foot in the grave.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, we hope you enjoyed it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And let's talk about how we're gonna split that up.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, uh, love you all again.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you to my comery for making this possible.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you Josh Yeah, you're welcome Always right there for me.

[SPEAKER_07]: I You bent down like you were gonna press a button so I just left it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't gonna press a button, but I was I was allowing to Hey, what last week with the a-a-a-a

[SPEAKER_03]: I think so.

[SPEAKER_07]: Good.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, good.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll be back and so long, hey, guys.

[SPEAKER_03]: I used to serve it as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: We loved you.

[SPEAKER_03]: We loved you and we love you and we will love you and join us next time on Hicks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So long, everybody.

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