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Article: Elvis Presley Enterprises takes gloves off against the Velvet Elvis
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- November 25, 1996
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HOUSTON -- One thing's certain in the legal battle between Barry
Capece and Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc.: Somebody's going to have a
blue Christmas.
Capece owns a Houston bar called the Velvet Elvis. In a trial
starting today in Houston, he will defend the bar's name -- as well
his right to hang a velvet painting of the King behind the bandstand
-- from accusations that he is ripping off the late singer's estate
with what Elvis Presley Enterprises calls a "tacky bar."
Capece maintains the name is a parody designed to capture the
bar's "Las Vegas-bordello" atmosphere.
"We're a cheesy place intentionally," he said in the smoke-stained
lounge, whose decor includes velvet paintings of ...