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   Wednesday, August 14, 2002

HONEYMOON IN VEGAS

This is a weird week for Elvis fans. As we approach the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death (yes, sorry, he is indeed dead), The King's daughter has married actor Nicholas Cage. Now, normally, I'm one of the few people who couldn't give a toss about celebrity marriages -- I don't read People or Hello! and I've never had a theory on why Julia Roberts keeps dumping fiancees -- but I have to admit that this one rattled me a little.

If there's one thing that I've learned about Nicholas Cage, despite not caring much, it's that he's a massive, massive Elvis fan (hell, one look at "Wild at Heart" will tell you that). Marrying Lisa Marie Presley makes him, in effect, Elvis' son-in-law and you just know he's thrilled about that. It's seems a bit creepy.

I hadn't heard about the marriage until my friend Chris told me about it and I asked him, "How do you marry a guy when you know that he might be doing so just because he's insane about your father?" Chris paused for a moment and said, "This is the woman who married Michael Jackson." "Oh yeah," I said, "I'd forgotten about that." Perhaps I do need to pay more attention to these things.

It's all speculation though, and distasteful at that -- I don't truly know anything about Lisa Marie and Nick so'll I just assume that they're deeply in love and that this marriage is a good thing for both of them. Oh wait -- I did that for her and Michael Jackson. Never mind.