Is everybody acquainted with the idea of sliding doorways? That’s, the movie Sliding Doorways? Gwyneth Paltrow—younger, British, named Helen—has a foul boyfriend, however she doesn’t realize it. At some point, Helen is speeding residence after getting fired from her job in public relations. She drops an earring within the elevator, and her timeline splits. In a single timeline, one other particular person within the elevator picks the earring, and the minuscule period of time it takes for Helen to retrieve it leads to a missed practice. Within the different, she makes her practice and arrives again residence in time to catch the boyfriend in flagrante delicto with a brunette. Within the first timeline, she stays within the unhealthy relationship with the awful boyfriend, has mousy brown hair, and strings collectively a number of jobs to make ends meet. Within the latter, she opens her personal profitable public relations agency and has kicky blond hair. Lots of different stuff occurs, however you get the purpose. We’re doing alternate timelines.
Which naturally brings us to Robert Kardashian, father of the sisters Kardashian, ex-husband of Kris Jenner; and Priscilla Presley, ex-wife of Elvis and completely nobody else. After Presley defined this week why she by no means remarried after Elvis, writer Jerry Oppenheimer took to Web page Six to recount the story of Presley and Kardashian, who had been as soon as a really severe couple. A pal of the Kardashians, Joni Migdal, informed Oppenheimer for his e book The Kardashians: An American Drama that “Priscilla made Robert very completely happy. He needed to marry her and have kids together with her. That was undoubtedly his hope, his plan.”
There was apparently one factor standing in the way in which: The King. Elvis would name Priscilla, who “would put the bedside receiver on the pillow between her and Robert and permit him to eavesdrop on the King’s intimate conversations along with his ex-wife,” in keeping with one other pal.
Moreover being a possibility to ponder this life as one roll of the die after one other, their romance additionally demonstrates how Los Angeles within the ’70s was a teeny-tiny, provincial city. On the time, Elvis was seeing Linda Thompson, who would finally marry Caitlyn Jenner, who, after divorcing Thompson, married Kris after she and Robert Kardashian divorced. That is the smallest world.
It’s additionally a pleasant second to mirror on how, like cube, a narrative at all times has a number of sides. Migdal informed Oppenheimer for his e book that Kardashian needed one thing of a housewife, however didn’t like Priscilla’s cooking, which infuriated her, and that was apparently why she actually didn’t need to marry him.
“Priscilla as soon as tried to make dinner for Robert as a result of he stored asking her, so Priscilla stated that one night time she cooked asparagus, and he or she made this and he or she made that, and he or she went out of her approach to make it excellent, and he HATED it. She stated that after that meal, he by no means prompt that she make dinner for him once more.”
Marriage, in keeping with Migdal, was formally off the desk, and Presley informed Kardashian: “Look, I’m not going to marry anybody till Elvis dies.” (Vainness Honest has reached out to Presley for remark.)
The truth that Presley and Kardashian dated for a time, however break up up due to Elvis, isn’t breaking information. Oppenheimer’s e book is from 2017, and Riley Keough, Presley’s granddaughter, talked about their relationship simply this previous August, throughout her press tour for Daisy Jones & the Six and the post-Elvis mayhem, within the pages of this journal. “‘My grandma dated their [i.e. the Kardashian’s] dad, I feel?’ Keough stated. ‘Reality-check that.’”
Hear, with both timeline—the one the place Kardashian and Presley marry and procreate, and the one we’ve got, wherein Kardashian and Jenner married and procreated—we seemingly would have had an American royal household from Calabasas. This timeline has given us hours and hours of tv to look at, and many to ponder.
