Is reggae superstar Bob Marley bigger than Jesus? That's debatable, but the music legend who died 28 years ago is about to challenge Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson for the title of richest dead celebrity.
Forbes magazine's ninth annual list of top-earning dead celebrities was unveiled Wednesday, and surprise, surprise: Neither Michael Jackson nor Elvis Presley held court at the top.
David Letterman has been in the news for helping police foil an alleged attempt to blackmail him, but the late-night star is hardly the first celebrity in this position.
It's arguably one of the largest pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia ever: a 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, once owned by the king of rock 'n' roll.
Is reggae superstar Bob Marley bigger than Jesus? That's debatable, but the music legend who died 28 years ago is about to challenge Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson for the title of richest dead celebrity.
Forbes magazine's ninth annual list of top-earning dead celebrities was unveiled Wednesday, and surprise, surprise: Neither Michael Jackson nor Elvis Presley held court at the top.
David Letterman has been in the news for helping police foil an alleged attempt to blackmail him, but the late-night star is hardly the first celebrity in this position.
It's arguably one of the largest pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia ever: a 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, once owned by the king of rock 'n' roll.
Michael Jackson's financial woes were well documented: Numerous lawsuits, loss of control of his beloved Neverland and reports that he was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt all point to a complex money mess that trailed the King of Pop as vigilantly as his most ardent fans.
Unlike television crime shows in which machines can instantly spit out results, toxicology testing to determine what drugs are in a person's body can be a long and painstaking process.
Michael Jackson knew "exactly how his fate would be played out" and feared his death would echo that of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley wrote in an online blog posted Friday morning.
Because you weren't going into botany, the priesthood, or coin manufacturing, you thought you were safe to dismiss Latin as a dead language. Obviously, you didn't graduate cum laude.
Under a scorching sun at Graceland, his beloved home, fans streamed by Elvis Presley's grave on Thursday, the 30th anniversary of the death of the king of rock 'n' roll. It was, for most, a time to remember.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- A story about models and rock stars needs to be written here. After all, long before Sports Illustrated brought the two groups together for this year's Swimsuit Issue, the Chateau Marmont helped facilitate their rendezvous inside the various suites, cottages and bungalows nestled alongside this hill overlooking Sunset Blvd.
The invitation to your annual work party has fluttered into your e-mail inbox -- and your stomach contracts as you read it's an evening of karaoke. But don't spend the night "washing your hair" -- our guide will help turn you from nul points nobody to karaoke king or queen!
Everyone believes a modern-day leader has to generate a few sparks. "You can't pull together resources and people if you don't have the capacity for making other people want to contribute," says Paul Reynolds, a management professor at Florida International University in Miami.
What's better: A 4-bedroom, 2-and-a-half bath colonial in a so-so neighborhood or a 3-bedroom, 1-and-a-half bath Georgian in a trendy neighborhood? What about a perfectly maintained Victorian with major driveway and commuting issues versus a neglected ranch within walking distance of a good school and a train station?
Nothing makes a long car ride longer than losing your radio signal in the fourth quarter of a tied ball game. And when the oldies station is cranking out hit after golden hit on a Saturday night, nothing sucks the life out of the party like 17 minutes of commercials. Even if you tune in and hear a great new song Monday morning, you can bet you'll be sick of it after you've heard it 37 times--and it isn't even lunch yet.
There are really two Las Vegases. The first is that mythic patch of Nevada desert called the Strip, whose best-known monuments are a New York skyline and an Egyptian temple.
Here are the motion picture and television nominees for the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards announced Tuesday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is scheduled to present the awards on January 16 in Beverly Hills, California.
Elvis left the building 28 years ago, but as a pop icon he's still hot. Over half a million tourists from all over the world stream into the shrine called Graceland each year. When his record compa...
They all laughed when Jefferson bought half the continent from France. Alaska was called "Seward's folly." Other "crazy" investments have worked out fine, too. But some oddball bets fell flat.
Elvis and Vegas go together like peanut butter and bananas. Now an unconventional investor is poised to make Elvis the King of Las Vegas, and everywhere else, with projects like an Elvis-themed casino, Elvis-themed restaurants and a convention-sized Heartbreak Hotel.
They were on the verge of extinction. The famed Kahiki, of Columbus, Ohio, had been torn down for a Walgreen's. Aku Aku, in Cambridge, Mass., became a New England fish house. But even 18 months ago...
This husband-and-wife team admits that moving their polling company from New Jersey to Las Vegas five years ago wasn't a sure thing. They'd found a nice niche conducting surveys for Atlantic City c...
$175 Cruise the roads of the Mississippi Delta in a '55 Cadillac. The eight-hour Blues & Blacktop guided tour stops at juke joints and barbecue shacks. See www.americandreamsafari.com.
If you asked Internet retailing experts three years ago who was most likely to suffer from the rise of e-commerce, many would have pointed to distributors. These large disrespected behemoths that m...
--Hat size: A stock selling in the single digits, say, between $5 and $8--roughly the sizes in which hats are measured. As in: "This company is headed to hat size."
Just two years ago the Food Network was a flop. Ratings were so low they were almost undetectable. During one ten-month stretch, there were three different owners and three different CEOs. One form...
Okay, so this Rustbelt city isn't Nashville or Woodstock or even Motown. Elvis first rolled his pelvis thousands of miles away, and about the best-known band to spring up hereabouts was the nerdy i...
One day it snowed on Graceland, and Elvis had snowmobiles delivered so that he and his boys could bomb around the Memphis hills. It hardly ever snowed again, so eventually the King had the snowmobi...
Q. I own 50 AT&T bonds that mature in 2022. They pay 81/8% a year in interest. The company has announced that it is going to split into three parts. How would this change affect my bonds? --BENJAMI...
WHEN YOU'VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT. AND MUTUAL FUNDS HAVE got it--flashy returns following a year when stocks shot up 37.5% and bonds 18.5%. Now comes the flaunt. Thanks to those numbers, many publicati...
As millions of compact-disk owners toss their old 45s and LP vinyl records, other consumers are snapping up those platters for a song. "Right now is the best time investors will ever have to search...
Your April Money Monitor report, "Fully 95% of Merchants Flunk Our Credit-Card Test," brought back some personal memories. I'm not surprised that your reporters were able to use each other's cards ...
Rare is the moment when a major consumer expense is rolled back to the level it stood at nearly 40 years ago, when Elvis was an unknown and a typical house went for $8,000. But that's what's happen...
MADONNA. Guns n' Roses. Vanilla Ice. M.C. Hammer. 2 Live Crew. Let's face it: You don't really know anything about any of this stuff. You're probably too old or too harried or too stuck on your own...
Finally, after years of unfulfilled promise, small-company stock funds may be ready to rocket again. Okay, we know you've heard that before. But this time, small-stock proponents -- who've had abou...
WHERE'S the letter mailed to you three weeks ago? What happened to that contract you sent yesterday? They're probably mired in your mailroom, where guys in smocks are smoking White Owls or somethin...
It's an investing rule of thumb that the fair market price of an ounce of gold tends to equal roughly the price of a well-made man's suit. Presumably, then, at any given time a speculator could con...
Elvis Presley was not a ''near has-been'' at death, as you said in ''Collectibles'' ((August)). He became too dependent on pills because he had health problems and because he was too stubborn to ha...
Although Elvis Presley died 10 years ago this Aug. 16 as an overweight, drug- abusing, near has-been at age 42, the King today is ''taking care of business in a flash,'' to use his own life's philo...
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