Free Republic

WASHINGTON - This year's Wonders of America set climbed to second place in the most popular stamps, but Elvis is still the King, the Postal Service said Tuesday. Some 124.1 million of the 1993 Elvis Presley stamps were saved by Americans, according to the post office, which does an annual survey of 10,000 households to determine which stamps are most popular.

Thirty-five years after his death, rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley's personal life will stir up interest anew with a documentary that releases on Saturday. Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots is a 76-minute documentary that will premiere at the Jewish Film Festival in Toronto April 20 and go to New York in May. Produced by Montreal-based Diversus Productions, it is directed by Max Wallace, a Canadian investigative journalist and author, who contends Elvis was a Jew. Wallace got the germ of his story from an article in the Wall Street Journal in 1998 that said Elvis' maternal great-great-grandmother...