When he returned to the revue the following December, a stylish shot of him "talking shop" with Little Junior Parker and Bobby "Blue" Bland appeared in Memphis's mainstream afternoon paper, The Press-Scimitar, accompanied by a short feature that made Elvis's feelings abundantly clear.
The original story will hit mainstream press this morning.
Even before then there had been questions about whether Norton's caustic and graphic brand of humour could successfully be adapted for a mainstream Saturday night audience on BBC1.
Apolo Anton Ohno may have hurtled the heretofore marginal curiosity known as short-track speedskating into the Olympic mainstream Saturday night, when he scrambled sideways across the finish line, like a soldier to a foxhole, for a well-earned silver medal.
"Online banking is currently the number one way consumers check their account, but it didn't become mainstream over night.
"Not many people can claim to have hosted a mainstream Saturday night TV show and published an acclaimed literary translation of Dante's Inferno.
In the 1970s, Halloween was dubbed "the gay Christmas" as it became an opportunity for underground drag, cabaret, and ballroom communities to step into the mainstream one night a year, on the street or in parades.
"Anybody who follows national politics knows that when it comes to a lot of the issues Americans care about most, Democrat leaders in Washington are pretty far outside the mainstream," McConnell said this morning in a Senate floor speech.
"One of the things about the Bourne films I have always loved is that, although they're mainstream commercial Saturday night popcorn movies, there's something about the story and character that enables you to get to the paranoia that drives the world today and express it in mainstream way".
