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  “ORION, PERSONIFICATION OF ELVIS” – By Des Kelly Very recently, a television documentary caught my attention, and held it tenaciously, even though it was a fairly long “true story” regarding James (Jimmy) Ellis, a simple Americsn Country lad whose only wish was to be a great entertainer, pursued his dream, made his way to the “big sticks”, to finally be presented with the stage-name Orion, the masked “ghost” of the king of rock n roll Elvis Presley.           This is just an introduction to what was a most interesting story, which proves how tremendously difficult it is, for anyone to gain recognition, let alone “Star-status”, in   the entertainment field, in America, or anywhere else, for that matter. Orion “made it” alright, but only as a masked  Lone Ranger figure, emulating his own idol, Elvis, who had already passed on. Orion did not need that mask, ...