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'Elvis has left the building' originator diesBy Times staff writer© St. Petersburg Times published October 14, 2002 VICTORIA, Texas -- Horace Lee Logan, who started the country music program Louisiana Hayride and first said what became the catch phrase "Elvis has left the building," died Sunday. He was 86. Logan began in radio when he was 16, after winning a contest to become an announcer on KWKH-AM in Shreveport, La., wife Linda Logan said. He began producing Hayride, a country music show performed before a live KWKH audience in Shreveport's Municipal Auditorium, in 1948. It survived only two years after Logan's departure in 1958. In between, he introduced a number of country music's top names, such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. Hannibal Lecter remains on top at box officeHannibal Lecter stood out in a crowd of new movies. Red Dragon, the third thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as serial killer Lecter, was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend, taking in $17.6-million and fending off an onslaught of debut films, according to studio estimates Sunday. Reese Witherspoon's romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama remained in second place with $14.1-million. Brown Sugar, a romance starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan as longtime pals who become lovers, was the strongest of six new wide releases, debuting at No. 3 with $11.1-million.
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