These black and white rarely seen photos of Elvis turned up in a London newspaper. They were taken by a guy named Alfred Wertheimer, who was hired by RCA to follow Elvis around for a few weeks right before he became a big star. He snapped around 4000 candid shots - most of which never saw the light of day. When Elvis hit it big, Colonel Parker had to approve every photo released and he was VERY particular. (The top photo featured Elvis reading comics on a train from Memphis to New York, in the middle photo Elvis is pretending to strangle his date while one of his Memphis buddies watches, the third photo is Elvis on his Harley.)

Nobody's been scrutinizing Lisa Marie Presley's tummy for a potential pregnancy and wouldn't you know it - the Enquirer says she is expecting a baby. Apparently Lisa suffered a miscarriage when she married her current husband Michael Lockwood two years ago and she's justifiably nervous about expecting again at the age of 40. We're not thrilled about the prospect of having another Scientologist brought into the world, but maybe the kid will be as cute as her model daughter Riley. (above right)

This recent picture of Lisa Marie Presley and her mother Priscilla is certainly interesting and revealing in many ways, but we don't understand the big fuss over Lisa Marie. She's being accused of looking overweight and bloated like her father Elvis in his last days. That's absurd. We don't happen to think she looks bloated OR chubby. That smudged eye makeup isn't particularly flattering and if we're not mistaken, she has a suspicious not-so-friendly look on her face, but that's nothing new.

We can never get enough of Elvis and now we have a new book to look forward to that promises a truly inside glimpse at his many idiosyncrasies. We first met Sheila Caan (she was Sheila Ryan in those days) when she plopped herself down on a lounge chair next to us at the pool at 999 Doheny Drive . It was the height of swinging Hollywood in the 70's and this was the hippest high-rise building near Sunset Strip. Sheila was a naturally pretty blonde who was DATING Elvis Presley! Her romance with Elvis lasted from '73 to '75 when she met and married James Caan. Now she's written a juicy book about her time with Elvis called FAME ON ME and she's almost ready to shop it around to publishers. I asked Sheila to slip me a few tidbits about Elvis that I didn't already know. She told me he was shy, and got nervous on first dates. She said he loved Pink Panther movies and ate something called "hamburger steak" every night for a year. Best of all, she revealed he was proud of his "webbed toes" - he thought he had them because he was born a twin (His brother Jesse died at birth.) WE always thought webbed toes came from inbreeding - as in marrying one's cousin! Whatever - we can't wait to get our hands on FAME ON ME!

Here's a world leader we can sink our teeth into. Of course we're talking about Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, seen here with our President Bush, at Graceland, admiring Elvis' Jungle Room. Koizumi, an Elvis fanatic, was permitted to try on a pair of Elvis' OWN shades, and burst into song. The Prime Minister had a statue -not of himself but of his idol Elvis - erected in the Harajuku district in Tokyo. We'd love to get our hands on the limited edition CD of Elvis songs that Koizumi released in 2001. Anybody know where we can find one?