Seriously. They were the best.
Anyhow, back to the subject at hand. Yes! Elvis Presley--despite the normally-severe disadvantage of having died in 1977--appeared in the greatest Christmas movie of all time. If you take the time to Google "Elvis Presley Home Alone"--and why wouldn't you?--you come upon all sorts of websites dedicated to the long held belief that ol' Elvis is still alive and kicking and appearing in Christmas movies.
At the time of Home Alone's release in 1990, The King would have been 55 years old. In the scene where Kevin's Mother is arguing with Steppenwolf Ensemble Member Alan Wilder at the Scranton Airport (just before she meets John Candy and the rest of the Kenosha Kickers), there is an extra standing in the background that is, apparently, Elvis Presley. A not-dead Elvis Presley. Don't believe me? As they say, the proof is in the pudding:
See him? Over her left shoulder?
Not buying it yet? Well, let's compare Elvis and this fellow, shall we?
Prooooooooooooof!
Further prooooooooooooooof!
I did a cursory check around the interwebs for further, photographic evidence that Elvis is alive and well, surviving in a new career as an extra in movies shot exclusively in the midwest, but could not find any such proof. Well, actually, I just got bored with the search and quit altogether to re-review the Lindsay Lohan pictures at i.playboy.com.
I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that Elvis is, in fact, dead. The interwebs overwhelmingly told me so. I have nothing further to say on the subject other than this is a pretty funny picture:
There's a "Hunka Hunka Burnin' Cross" joke there somewhere.
