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Jun 27, 2022 · Luhrmann hasn't really given him his due by a long shot." Here are all the biggest changes to Parker's story made in the film. 1. Colonel Tom Parker Didn't Try to Alter Elvis' Image. Elvis depicts ...
Jun 25, 2022 · Elvis had gone to the home of an employee he liked, whose wife was dying from cancer, and Hilton terminated the employee because of a rule banning any contact between employees and hotel talent ...
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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 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 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 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 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 ...
