Was er selbst dazu sagte:

Mr. Goldman said he conducted 600 interviews in the course of researching "Elvis." He denied that he set out to paint an unflattering portrait. "It's absurd to believe that I wanted to trash Elvis," he said in an interview. "One of the greatest problems was trying to find something positive to say about this man. Every time I started investigating a given area, even one that promised to make him look good, it always ended up making him look bad

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