"Girl Happy" made good money so his next Hollywood whirl would be guaranteed at half a million bucks. The Stalin-Jesus sighting would've come in March of 1965, when Presley was 30 years old, caught between his search for some kind of truth through books like "The Impersonal Life" and "Autobiography of a Yogi" and making sure The book, which has already gotten drool reviews in the New York Times and USA Today, does a good job of balancing the sublime, the slimed and the ridiculous in Presley's mud-ugly, rain-glistening, moonlight-beautiful life. That's as good a story as any to introduce Peter Guralnick's "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley," a 766-page tome tracking Presley's life from the time he got out of the Army in 1960 until his death in 1977. Geller remembered Presley saying "Oh, God, Oh, God," over and over, "then he paused and added a peculiar aside - "Can you imagine what the fans would think if they saw me like this?' "
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