I spoke to the Ty Burrell (of the brilliant Modern Family fame) and the director James Bobin.
The Presley story, he said, is that of "the young man with the ancient eyes and the child's mouth... [who] awoke from the nightmare of poverty to find the brilliant sun of Fame suddenly burst in his eyes".
He may not be as jaw-droppingly inventive as Pelé, and he is extremely unlikely to end up with anything like the same World Cup haul, though it is important to remember that the brilliant Brazilian's fame was based almost exclusively on his World Cup performances.
Mays was then 42, and in the 22nd and last season of his brilliant, Hall-of-Fame career.
Expert at basking in "the brilliant wattage of her fame," she never refused an interview, often receiving reporters in the privacy of her boudoir, clad only in diaphanous negligee.
These achievements, together with the glory of military victories and the fame of a brilliant court, to which the greatest minds of Europe were drawn, have won her a distinguished place in history.
But the meteoric rise to fame of this brilliant young patron, followed by his quixotic conversion to the "new age" religion based on the turn to Neo-Platonic philosophy as the foundation of Christianity, which, when taught and propagated in the Academy of Marsilio Ficino in Florence, was combined with Hermeticism, Kabbalah and Magic, brought considerable grief and disappointment to Delmedigo.
How brilliant of her, despite the great fame of her score, to hold back on the fireworks and choose what she actually needed.
I wouldn't want to over-emphasise the comparison between Beckett's bleakly funny existentialist masterpiece and the sometimes cruel, often brilliant unpicking of a bunch of fame-grabbers.
"Extras" is just as thrilling as its predecessors, but it's also a thoughtful novel of ideas, a brilliant parody of the modern obsession with fame.
