The Washington Post, October 2nd, 1992
ANDREW Bergman's "Honeymoon in Vegas" showed us the jumpsuited nation of Elvis Presley impersonators around the country. In "Legends," a short (54-minute) but delightful documentary by Ilana Bar-Din, we meet four such Elvises. We also check in with "Marilyn Monroe," "Judy Garland," "Sammy Davis Jr." and John Stuart, the promoter who pays these men and women to be who they want to be. A graduate of the circus school of hard sell, with hair like a blow-dried dandelion, Stuart was a businessman with a midlife crisis. Deciding to change direction in his life, he created "Legends in Concert," a Las...
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