Drug-fueled burnout has become a rock star cliché, but the original rock star’s burnout had more to do with chitlins than cocaine.
That’s the subject of James Marsh’s The Burger and the King, a doc about Elvis’ ultimately fatal obsession with the beef patty’s siren song.
From his impoverished, burgerless childhood to his fatback-fueled rise to fame, documentarian James Marsh covers the full span of the King’s development through food, complete with fat and calorie content.
