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Celine sings duet with Elvis on American Idol LIVE!!!
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Apr 27, 2007, 08:44 PM
 
They had to dig up Elvis and clean him up a bit, and make-up did a fine job too.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wC2K_fgy8Nc
     
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Apr 27, 2007, 09:02 PM
 
Celine annoys me. I like Elvis.
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Apr 27, 2007, 09:06 PM
 
I didn't think it looked very good :/

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Apr 27, 2007, 09:08 PM
 
By the way. Final two: Blake and Melinda. Winner: Melinda

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Apr 27, 2007, 09:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by misc View Post
I didn't think it looked very good :/
I'm with you, they could have done a better job
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Apr 27, 2007, 09:29 PM
 
Originally Posted by mac128k-1984 View Post
I'm with you, they could have done a better job
Yea, but choosing not to use Celine Dion.
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Apr 27, 2007, 09:41 PM
 
It's funny how the CGI Elvis had a better stage presence than Celine Dion.

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Apr 27, 2007, 10:43 PM
 
OK, the horrors and tastelessness of this aside. Was Elvis digitally added later? Or was there some other trickery involved? The YouTube claims it's a "hologram". I don't know what they have been smoking while watching Star Wars, but such technology doesn't exist yet. Best one we can do still is the smoke-and-mirrors that enabled Gorillaz to appear on stage.

How did this appear to the audience?

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Apr 27, 2007, 10:47 PM
 
Ah, apparently I am correct in thinking the audience saw nothing:
TheStar.com - artsentertainment - Celine, Elvis duet freaks fans out

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Apr 28, 2007, 12:24 AM
 
Wasn't Elvis in the army the year she was born?
     
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Apr 28, 2007, 02:13 AM
 
My wife is a major Celine fan.
Wish I'd known that before we tied the knot.
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Apr 28, 2007, 12:15 PM
 
weak. :/
     
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Apr 28, 2007, 12:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by design219 View Post
Celine annoys me. I like Elvis.
Funny, it’s more the other way around for me.

No, scratch that: they both kind of annoy me.
     
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Apr 28, 2007, 05:07 PM
 
I liked the performance. But Miss Underwood's was better.

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Apr 28, 2007, 06:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
Funny, it’s more the other way around for me.

No, scratch that: they both kind of annoy me.
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Apr 28, 2007, 06:32 PM
 
Seems to me they had Coke commercials back some years with dead people in them.

Prolly in 10 years they'll have movies starring dead people (no not Zombies) and living actors will be out of a job. Heh.

Awnold with Grace Kelly. Naw, I don't think so.

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Apr 28, 2007, 06:57 PM
 
When I saw that I was shocked how tacky and stupid the whole thing was.
     
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Apr 29, 2007, 12:20 AM
 
Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster View Post
Prolly in 10 years they'll have movies starring dead people (no not Zombies) and living actors will be out of a job. Heh.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346156/

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Apr 29, 2007, 12:37 AM
 
Originally Posted by malvolio View Post
My wife is a major Celine fan.
Wish I'd known that before we tied the knot.
There's always divorce court.
     
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Apr 29, 2007, 05:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster View Post
Prolly in 10 years they'll have movies starring dead people (no not Zombies) and living actors will be out of a job. Heh.
Didn't they already do that with Marlon Brando in Superman Returns?

http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmo...r_el_large.mov

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Apr 29, 2007, 12:40 PM
 
If anything they should have projected Elvis rolling over in his grave.
     
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Apr 29, 2007, 12:45 PM
 
Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES View Post
If anything they should have projected Elvis rolling over in his grave.
You have to be dead to do that.
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Apr 29, 2007, 12:51 PM
 
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You have to be dead to do that.
I have to be dead?
     
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Apr 29, 2007, 12:55 PM
 
This kind of reminds me of that old SNL sketch "Natalie King Cole sings with all her Dad's old friends"
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Apr 29, 2007, 12:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster View Post
Prolly in 10 years they'll have movies starring dead people (no not Zombies) and living actors will be out of a job. Heh.
The scary thing about this is what will happen with the money and rights? My expectation is that the studios will now own the persona, and just rake it in.
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Apr 29, 2007, 01:44 PM
 
Originally Posted by SirCastor View Post
The scary thing about this is what will happen with the money and rights? My expectation is that the studios will now own the persona, and just rake it in.
The deceased's family usually owns the rights to their image and how it is used.
     
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Apr 29, 2007, 01:59 PM
 
Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES View Post
I have to be dead?
Elvis would have to be dead.
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Apr 29, 2007, 02:43 PM
 
Originally Posted by mac128k-1984 View Post
I'm with you, they could have done a better job
I thought the best job they could have done would have been to not do that kind of cheese at all.
     
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Apr 30, 2007, 10:40 AM
 
That video just reinforces what I already knew:

Celine dion sucks and so did Elvis.
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Apr 30, 2007, 10:41 AM
 
I like Elvis. Even if he got fat and died on the shitter.
     
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Apr 30, 2007, 11:08 AM
 
I heard her duet with The Who didn't work out so well when Pete Townsend smashed his guitar over her head...

...wait, it worked out perfectly.
     
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Apr 30, 2007, 11:14 AM
 
Originally Posted by Dakarʒ View Post
I like Elvis. Even if he got fat and died on the shitter.
Elvis wasn't the problem in that duet. Even as a fake digital projection he looked and sounded better than that decrepit monkey skeleton standing next to him.
     
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Apr 30, 2007, 11:16 AM
 
Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES View Post
Elvis wasn't the problem in that duet. Even as a fake digital projection he looked and sounded better than that decrepit monkey skeleton standing next to him.
You nailed it. Well done.
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