Viva Las Vegas News

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich will take part in Columbia College's long-running Cinema Slapdown series, defending the merits of Viva Las Vegas , George Sidney's 1964 Elvis vehicle, in a debate with film and video assistant professor Dan Rybicky.

Vulgar, spirited, and neglected director George Sidney meets his match with this 1964 Elvis Presley vehicle: Presley, Ann-Margret, and Las Vegas itself are all ready-made for his talents, which mainly have to do with verve and trashy kicks.

A new collection of Elvis Presley songs is set to be released to celebrate what would have been the singer's 75th birthday.

The title of the Elvis-Cirque du Soleil show was made official today. Announced this morning is that the show will be called, "Viva Elvis," obviously playing off the 1965 Presley film, "Viva Las Vegas." The production show, a partnership between Cirque and Elvis Presley Enterprises, hits the stage when the City Center resort Aria opens on Dec.

Last night a group of us attending the 21st Century Learning @ the West Lake Expo in Hangzhou, China , ventured downtown following our banquet to see the beautiful fountains on West Lake .

Screen queens and pillars of pop culture will descend upon New Jersey once again for the return of the Chiller Theatre Toy, Model and Film Expo, set to be held Friday through Sunday at the Hilton Parsippany.

Musical theater students at River Ridge High School rehearse a scene from Bye Bye Birdie, which goes back to the early days of rock 'n' roll.

Carroll Shelby trumped Elvis Presley and Lee Iacocca at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas auction, as results from the October event were released by the auction house.

VIVA LAS VEGAS a ' Elvis Presley stars as driver Lucky Jackson, who comes to Sin City in search of money for a new engine and a win in the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Don't be square, join the Putnam County Extension Homemakers Thursday at the Putnam County Fairgrounds Community Building for a cruise down memory lane for a good cause.

A few months after the Beatles box sets made retailers scramble to fill orders, the King of Rock 'n' Roll will get the royal treatment.

Angelica Bridges grew up in a small Missouri town of just 150 people. She was involved in the Bible-belt Miss Missouri Teen Pageants, so when the redheaded knockout went topless for a sexy magazine photo shoot, not only did it shock her family, but she also broke every taboo in the book back home! Ironically, now the stunning, statuesque beauty has ...

The Barrett-Jackson car show at Mandalay Bay kicked off Wednesday and will run through Saturday.

Elvis fans, Jaguar lovers and the just plain curious will find something to like as the Barrett-Jackson auction features the '61 Jaguar from the movie Viva La Vegas .

Elvis may be known as the King of Rock n' Roll, but he is certainly the King of Las Vegas too.

Don't call the Loews Vanderbilt Nashville the "Heartbreak Hotel." At least, don't plan on it unless you're booking their "Elvis in the Music City" package in celebration of The King himself.

Nancy Walters of Las Vegas, NV, who acted with Elvis Presley in the movie, " Blue Hawaii ", and who was a Christian minister has died.

IF music be the food of love, play on. So wrote the legendary playwright William Shakespeare and both The Bard and music feature strongly in this week's Fab Five round-up. Each week, the Free Press Freetime section rounds up the best of the next seven day's entertainments and attractions in and around Doncaster to make sure whatever your age, ...

Ann-Margret, one of the major stars of film and musical theater, will receive the Arts and Activism Award at the 2010 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards Gala Feb.

This is volume 5 in the Polish newspaper series entitled Viva Las Vegas! . This CD was released through one of the most popular daily newspapers in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza , in conjunction with Radio Zlote Przeboje .