Elvis Presley’s former Beverly Hills mansion is on the market for lease at $25,000 a month.
The 1.8-acre gated compound located near the end of North Hillcrest Road in prime Trousdale Estates was once owned by the music icon and his wife Priscilla, E!online reported.
The French Regency Estate, built in 1958, has recently been renovated with fresh paint and flooring and boasts of four bedrooms, five bathrooms coupled with private master suite and tremendous closet space. Handwritten tributes from fans still adorn the property’s entry gate. The “King of Rock and Roll” died in 1977 due to cardiac arrest. He was found dead in the bathroom of his Graceland mansion in Tennessee. He was 42.
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‘Monkeys have self-doubt like humans’
London: Alike humans, monkeys display self-doubt and uncertainty, a new study has revealed.
An international team has found that monkeys trained to play computer games feel self-doubt and uncertainty and will “pass” rather than risk choosing the wrong answer in a brainteaser task. Awareness of our own thinking was believed to be a uniquely human trait. But, the study suggests that our more primitive primate relatives are capable of such self-awareness, the BBC reported. Prof. John David Smith of State University of New York at Buffalo and Michael Beran of Georgia State University, trained the macaques to use a joystick-based computer game.
The animals were trained to judge the density of a pixel box that appeared at the top of screen as either sparse or dense. —PTI
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Firth learned Italian to woo in-laws
Los Angeles: Oscar-nominated actor Colin Firth had a tough time impressing his wife Livia Giuggioli’s parents when they first met and learned Italian to impress them as they were initially against their courtship.
The actor, who married Italian film producer-and-director Giuggioli in 1997, took pains to learn Italian in a desperate attempt to win over her parents. “Her parents warmed up. I mean, taking a stab at their language, you know, I had to do an awful lot to convince them that I was good material for their daughter. Because I had a lot of strikes against me. I was 10 years older nearly, English, didn’t speak the language. Already had a child. I was an actor,” Colin told CNN’s Piers Morgan. “I mean, the list really does get very, very bad so I had to fix the language,” he said. —PTI