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Tupelo's Most-Famous Elvis Impersonator Visits the Lyric Next Week
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The chance to see Tupelo’s most-famous Elvis impersonator and perhaps sneak into documentary footage is about one week away.
The documentary “I Didn’t Do It” will be filming footage at a May 15 concert by Paul Kevin Curtis, who was framed by a rival Elvis impersonator/karate instructor in an assassination attempt on the president.
Curtis was eventually cleared last year of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and a federal judge.
In January, Everett Dutschke pleaded guilty to sending the letters. Dutschke will be sentenced in Oxford on May 14.
Ironically, just one day later, Curtis will perform his first concert as Elvis since he was taken into federal custody and released.
F.B.I.O.U, a Ricin Roll Concert, will begin at 8 p.m. May 15, at The Lyric Oxford.
Hudson Hickman, one of the documentary producers, said the concert date wasn’t planned around the sentencing, it’s just a coincidence.
A still shot of Kevin Curtis performing as Elvis, from “I Didn’t Do It.”
Director/producer Melanie Addington said Curtis will split his show into two acts, with several costume changes and impersonations (definitely Elvis and Marty Robbins, and maybe others) in the first act. He will perform original music during the second half of the show.
“Everyone’s going to see a little bit of everything about Kevin,” she said.
His other impersonations include Johnny Cash, Randy Travis, Kenny Chesney, Roy Orbison, and even Prince and Elton John, Hickman said.
“I’ve seen him sing songs and he sounds remarkably like whoever he’s impersonating,” Hickman said.
Most of filming has wrapped up, but Addington is still trying to film Dutschke’s side of the story. She has exchanged letters with Dutschke, asking to interview him on-camera.
“It sounds like he wants to be involved, but he hasn’t committed,” she said.
Dutschke is a former candidate for the Mississippi House of Representatives and also owned a Taekwondo martial arts studio in Tupelo.
He was arrested in the federal investigation into the mailing of the ricin-laced letters to federal and local officials after charges were dropped against Paul Kevin Curtis.
Both Hickman and Addington have local ties and started the feature-length documentary project because the case captivated them. Curtis was visiting family in New Albany and Addington was working as a reporter at the Oxford Eagle during the case. Over lunch, they decided they wanted to make this movie, and 48 hours later they had the rights, Hickman said.
A still from “I Didn’t Do It.”
“There are people out there who still don’t understand he wasn’t involved,” Addington said. “It’s caused a lot of mental stress.”
The film follows Curtis through his journey of becoming a terrorism suspect, garnering unwanted national attention and trying to return to a normal life.
“The last year he hasn’t performed at all and that was the other reason we wanted to put this together was to help him get back into it,” Hickman said. “It’s been a bit of a trauma for him, being arrested like this for no reason.”
Full distribution is planned for the documentary, but Addington said a screening is planned for Oxford. The movie will be released by the end of the year, she said.
The documentary team has been awarded a J.E. Pitts Artist Fund grant, in the amount of $500, according to director/producer Melanie Addington. The fund is named in memory of Jimmy Pitts, a songwriter, artist and poet from Oxford.
The trailer is here and the documentary website is here.
Gretchen Stone is HottyToddy.com associate editor. Gretchen can be contacted about this story at Gretchen.Stone@HottyToddy.com
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Tresa Felkey
May 7, 2014 at 5:35 pm
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Kevin Curtis
u are a TROLL…THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT CURTIS SENT ME ON FB AND I HAD NEVER HAD ANY CONTACT WITH HIM AT ALL..EXCEPT FOR ME CLICKING LIKE ON HIS PAGES AND HIM COMMENTING ON MY PICTURES ABOUT A FOOT MASSAGE AND ME DELETING THE COMMENTS…THATS IT….WHAT A GREAT GUY DON’T YOU THINK??? MAYBE I SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE??
Kevin Curtis
October 17, 2014 at 10:39 am
Tresa Felkey, You ARE the worst kind of TROLL and potential Stalker. Thank you for not coming to my home but if you did, You would be as famous as James Everette Dutscke. I am SICK of ignorant trolls like you and Dutschke. GET A LIVE and LEAVE ME ALONE!
I am KC and I approve this message.
Faye Solod
October 20, 2014 at 9:47 am
Tresa. Kevin Curtis is a very kind man who has been through hell and back. He was put in jail for something he didn’t do. For the past 14 years or so he has been harraassed, stalked and hated by so many ignorant people. Can you blame him for not trusting in people? If you had to live this kind of life, could you deal with it. He is a very good friend of mine, and I do not appreciate your comment. He does foot messages for a living, as no one will hire him to perform anmore. He is an excellent entertainer and because of people like you, his career went down the drain. Leave him alone. He needs true friends, not trolls like you.
Anonymous
November 10, 2014 at 10:36 am
TELL YOUR SLIMEY FRIENDS TO LEAVE ME ALONE…HIS CAREER WENT DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE HE COULDN’T MAKE IT AS A SINGER…HE IS A PATHETIC WANNA BE…GET OVER YOURSELF…PLEASE!!!!
Anonymous
November 10, 2014 at 10:38 am
OH BY THE WAY…I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!!!!
Anonymous
November 13, 2014 at 7:31 pm
Edgar Moss
9:30am
Edgar Moss
go fuck yourself you fake ass troll cunt with nothing better to do than try and get some attention from someone actually making a difference in the world while you sit on your trolling, stalking ass trying to get someone to look at ur fake ass dyed ragged out hair from the 70’s! Stop spending so much time in the tanning booth you ugly skank! GET A LIFE you crack head looking meth cum dumpster whore bag!
Anonymous
December 8, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Wow, it looks like Curtis has some very respectable and well educated friends…NOT!!!
charley Goodnite
June 26, 2018 at 5:15 am
LOLOLOLOLOL next?
charley goodnite
June 26, 2018 at 5:20 am
Get a life christi mcCoy. oh wait, you can’t get a life because you are too busy destroying innocent peoples lives. how is richard bowen these days? extorting more money from him because you could not keep your legs shut when you were married and having affairs? shame, shame. you sure do have an angry ax to grind for losing the nomination for u.s. prosecutor for obama lol get over it lady! you failed and then because of going at people online and talking about your clients on social media, the judge in oxford demoted you! big reduction in pay huh? wise up! stop hurting people!
charley goodnite
June 26, 2018 at 5:21 am
OH BY THE WAY…YOUR HUSBAND LEFT YOU AND TOOK THE FAMILY DOG!!!!!
charley goodnite
June 26, 2018 at 5:23 am
Wow, it looks like christi Mccoy lost her job in oxford, husband left her, daughter is gay in love with joan jett, mother has cancer, christi got bit by a tick and infected and can’t stop stalking people online! LOL
Kevin Curtis
March 18, 2019 at 1:16 am
Thanks Faye
Thomas K
March 18, 2019 at 1:59 am
You need to read the official complaints filed against mccoy before you start running your mouth online about people and circumstances you have no clue about. Get the facts before you blurt out b/s idiot
https://www.change.org/p/oxford-ms-attorney-christi-mccoy-needs-to-be-disbarred
Thomas K
March 18, 2019 at 2:02 am
get the facks idiot
https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/christi-mccoy-law-firm/internet/christi-mccoy-law-firm-phillip-halbert-neilson-law-firm-unethical-unprofessional-law-pr-1321013