Elvis: The Legendary Tours - Elvis impersonators

[ffutures]

I'm working on a section on Elvis impersonators, here's an example:

E.L.V.I.S.: Electronic Logical Violence and Infiltration Soldier, a robot sent from the twenty-fifth century to kill Emperor Norton during a charity concert – nobody is quite sure why. The example Elvis encountered could sing and play a little, but preferred to mime and play back perfect recordings of Elvis from an extensive digital archive. It was unmasked by giving it a guitar with disabled electronics, which it was nevertheless able to “play”, and destroyed by luring it to the gold vaults at Fort Knox, where Norton used the Philosopher’s Stone to transmute it to gold and had it melted it down. It seems likely that the unknown creators of E.L.V.I.S. will try again, possibly using another Elvis duplicate.

The name comes from the Cyborg Name Generator, of course, http://www.cyborgname.com/ and I'll be crediting it in a footnote.

I have some others roughed out including including a crook, a god, and a magical doppleganger, but if anyone wants to suggest more I'd appreciate the help, and will acknowledge it, of course.

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Don't really want to go the "references to movies" route too much in case it's followed by the "references to lawyers" letter. I can probably get away with parody, but being too much like any one source could lead to trouble.

I haven't seen Bubba Hotep - is it worth watching?

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Well I loved it....

It's very very silly - but also a bit sad in places. Bruce Cambell is excellent in the role. It might just have been the atompshere since I saw it at late night premiere with loads of other very very enthusatic fans.

You could simply go for a four foot high, asain women impersinator - she just claims she's the real elvis having had her mind swaped... but she is very good and can do Elvis patented 'hig wiggling' martial art move as well as anybody else.....

The above is nowhere near the plot of bubba hotep. That's just the president Kenedy* being black stuff.

*who was tragically assinated by while vistiing Degrassi Junior High by a Gnoll - an elite member of the Lone Gun Man assaination squad almost certainly hired by the military/industrail complex which has to be massive AI computer that works for Uncle sam - (I don't actually remember if you've already covered president Kenedy so if you have just ignore this)