Lisa Marie Presley and Cissy Houston To Appear At Elvis Week

Above, the main gate of Graceland. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A notice on this year's Elvis Week set for August showed up and it says that Cissy Houston, a former back-up singer for Elvis Presley and the late Whitney Houston's mother, will be attending as a special guest.

According to the Memphis Business Journal:

Graceland is expecting this fall's Elvis Week in to be its "biggest Elvis Week in history." 

Beginning Aug. 9 and spanning 10 days, the event will include Lisa Marie Presley, gospel and soul legend — and former Elvis back-up singer — Cissy Houston, Elvis '68 Comeback Special performer Darlene Love, and Elvis' drummer from the TCB Band, Ronnie Tutt. 

It will be the first Elvis Week appearance for both Houston and Love.

Unless global warming is more severe than we all thought, I always thought that the month August was in the summer. Whoever wrote the article goofed!

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Causing Coronaries: The National Enquirer Does It Again!

Above, the photo that started it all.

"Shocking!" "Revolting!" "Outrageous!" "Chilling!"

Those are just some of the adjectives in reaction to the National Enquirer's published photos of singer Whitney Houston in her casket at a funeral home.

It seems that the media (and some people in general) are overly sensitive to the publication of dead superstars.

This isn't the first time the National Enquirer published exclusive photos of dead celebrities. They've published photos of Elvis Presley (photo at top) in his casket (similar to the Houston photos), a facial shot of John Lennon at the morgue, full body shots of Selena on an autopsy table and a dead Michael Jackson in an ambulance.

Each time this happened, some people raised hell over the "poor taste" of the National Enquirer in publishing the photos. Apparently, not enough people agreed with the complainers as the tabloid made tons of money on those issues.

Whitney Houston Reported Dead

Some sad news.

From the Washington Post:

Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.

Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.

What a tragic waste.

So sad that Whitney Houston is gone. That voice was a gift from God. Her rendition of the National Anthem was transcendent. - Monica Crowley.