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Jun 25, 2022 · No, Luhrmann has really framed this through a present-day lens. Elvis had just as many white influences and announced as early as seventh grade that he was going to sing at the Grand Ole Opry ...
Jun 23, 2022 · Yes. The Colonel, who was neither a colonel nor named Tom Parker, was born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk in the Netherlands and came to the U.S. without documentation at the age of 20. In an attempt ...
Jun 30, 2022 · Elvis. Gets Right—And Wrong—About the Real Colonel Tom Parker. His accent wasn’t so theatrical, and he was way funnier than Baz Luhrmann gives him credit for. But according to Alanna Nash ...
- Alanna Nash
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- Did Elvis Actually Fire The Colonel from The Stage in Las Vegas?
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King, who worked as a DJ in Memphis at the time, would certainly have been aware of Elvis, and vice versa, but they would not have been hanging out and catching acts such as Little Richard as the movie portrays, says Nash. “Elvis and B.B. were acquaintances, but not close friends," she says. "They probably first crossed paths at Sun Studio, but onl...
The senator was shot elsewhere in Los Angeles, andnot during the taping of that iconic Elvis TV special but during rehearsals, Nash says. “Elvis arrived for the start of two weeks of rehearsals on June 3, 1968, and Kennedy was shot on June 5, dying the next morning, June 6,” she says. “The assassination put Elvis into an emotional spiral.” The tail...
Not true, Nash says. “The colonel was delighted that Elvis was causing riots and grabbing headlines for being overly suggestive,” she says. “It’s part of why he wanted him in the first place. Parker, ever the carny, knew what brought people in the big tent.” After Elvis was drafted, Parker – whom Nash notes was an Army deserter – worked with the Pe...
“No, he never would have done that,” Nash says. Nor did he ever suggest onstage that he knew of the colonel’s immigration issues. “He fully believed the colonel’s story that Parker hailed from Huntington, West Virginia; Elvis died not knowing the truth," she says. "That didn’t come out in this country until 1981." However, she adds, there was an in...
No, Nash says. “She says in her book ‘Elvis and Me’ that she would occasionally hear that he had checked into the hospital, and that she would then call to see if he was all right,” Nash says. In another one book, “Elvis by the Presleys,” Priscilla Presleysays many asked her why she didn’t initiate an intervention. Her response: “People who ask tha...
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Jun 23, 2022 · In a way, doing a fact-check on a Baz Luhrmann movie is silly. This is the director who relocated Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” from Verona to South Beach Miami, who started the movie ...
Jun 26, 2022 · Nash ended the interview by saying that The Colonel really got the short end of the stick in terms of how he was depicted by Luhrmann. "The Colonel is a complicated character, and while he always took too much of Presley's money, he made some very sound decisions for him. Luhrmann hasn't really given him his due by a long shot."
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Jun 23, 2022 · Watch on. Baz Luhrmann’s new film Elvis, starring Austin Butler as the eponymous singer, testifies to the public’s enduring fascination with its title character. The movie dramatizes the ...
