IN THE NEW REPUBLIC, Lee Siegel is comparing Elvis to Michael Jackson. The comparison between a liking for young, but sexually mature, women, and younger, and sexually immature, boys, seems to be a bit strained. Is it sweeps week at TNR?

My own take on Elvis can be found here. Or as Webb Wilder says in this immortal film: “It’s bad enough that he bad-mouthed poor old dead Elvis, but he had to do it while blowing pot smoke in my face.”

I wish they’d rerelease that gem on DVD.