Posted October 5, 200618 yr "Oprah & Gayle's Big Adventure" Includes a Visit with Lisa Marie Presley & Michael Lockwood at Graceland 10/5/2006 In the summer of 2006, Oprah Winfrey and her friend and colleague Gayle King took a road trip in America and shot footage along the way for a series of weekly features for the current season of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Billed as "Oprah and Gayle's Great Adventure," the trip brought the ladies to Elvis Presley's Graceland for a special evening with Lisa Marie Presley and her husband Michael Lockwood. First was a tour of Graceland, then the four gathered in the dining room for relaxed, personal conversation and a downhome-style dinner in the Presley family tradition. The Graceland feature is set to air on the Tuesday, October 10th edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Elvis footage will be included. Visit www.oprah.com to learn more about Oprah and Gayle's trip, and watch for a preview of the Graceland feature likely to be posted on Oprah.com a day ahead.
October 14, 200618 yr http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/oprah_secretroom.jpg From the Oprah website on her visit to Memphis and Graceland: At Graceland, Elvis Presley's home, Lisa Marie, Elvis's daughter, and Angie Marchesi, Graceland's archive director, led Oprah and Gayle on a private tour. Once they were behind the velvet ropes in the famed residence, they got to see some of the King's preserved possessions and rooms. Though millions of fans have toured Graceland, no ticket could get you into the last room on the tour—a secret library of Elvis memorabilia. Its very existence is so top secret that The Oprah Show cameras were turned off to protect the location. The room—which houses Elvis's most personal possessions—is fireproof, earthquake-proof and tornado-proof. Most of the things in this room—which include signed checks, more than 60,000 photographs, his famous sunglasses and 88 jumpsuits—have never even been seen by the public! Lisa Marie says having all of her dad's things around is comforting. "It's like a little time capsule of the past. Nothing's changed. "Updated: Oct 13, 2006
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