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THE KING IS WEIRD: And now another two cents worth of emotionally charged rationalization masquerading as objective analysis concerning the Elvis/Goldman controversy. Actually I feel a bit more objective than some since I was too young to care when Elvis first hit and much too cynical to respond by the time of his performing comeback—and though I have no love for Goldman, whose unrestrained loathing for Presley, popular culture, hillbillies and other non-intellectual aspects of Western Civ reveal to him to be a most self-centered and uncompassionate type of beast, still, the Elvis defenders have made me squirm just as much as he.