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People in the news Elvis afraid of life after 40? Priscilla Presley says Elvis often said he “didn’t want to be up on the stage with a guitar past 40,” and she believes he really did not want to live past that age. The rock legend’s ex-wife writes in the current issue of TV Guide that she has wonderful memories of Graceland, the late singer’s Memphis estate, “but the un-reality of our life together is what eventually tore us apart.” SHE SAYS ELVIS, who has been dead 10 years now, “enjoyed hanging out with the guys.” Priscilla add, “I would make sure we had nice candle-lit dinners, with our baby sitting at the table beside us. But he was off in two days again on tour to Palm Springs or Las Vegas. That was the lifestyle he loved most of all. Trying to change it made it worse.” Priscilla says she began staying home more and more while her husband was gone. “Many women say, ‘How could you leave him? Why did you do that?’ But unless you’re in that situation, you can never understand what it’s like. You want your husband and the father of your child to be home. You want a family unit We never had that “But probably the most difficult was witnessing Elvis’ personality and mood swings because of his dependency on prescribed drugs. As much as we urged him to get off drugs, his temper was short, so there was just so much any of us could d 0... We felt helpless.” IF ELVIS WERE ALIVE today, she doesn’t believe he’d be enjoying a career revival like so many performers of his era. “I think it was fate that his life ended when it did,” she said. “I don’t think he really wanted to live beyond 40.” “Elvis and Me,” based on Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s book, is scheduled to air as a two-part ABC movie Feb. 7-8. • CHICAGO (AP) A $l5O million paternity lawsuit filed against pop superstar singer Michael Jackson by a woman who called herself “Billie Jean” has been dismissed by a judge. Lavon Powlis, a 39-year-old unemployed legal secretary who calls herself Billie Jean Jackson and claimed Jackson once proposed marriage to her, filed the lawsuit in August in Cook County Circuit Court The woman said Jackson fathered her three children but had refused to pay child support. “Billie Jean” is the title of a hit song by Jackson about a man denying paternity. “The kid is not my son,” is one of the song’s lyrics. Judge Adolphus Rivers dismissed the lawsuit Wednesday without comment. Jackson, who grew up in Gary, Ind., has an unlisted telephone number in California, and could not be reached for comment. He begins a U.S. tour Feb. 23 in Kansas City, Mo. Dave Schneidman, a spokesman for the state Department of Children and Family Services, has said the woman has named other celebrities as the children’s father but had never gone so far as to file a paternity suit.

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