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Jun 27, 2022 · In the film, Luhrmann suggests Colonel Parker persuaded Elvis to go into the U.S. Army in order to give him a more wholesome image so he could move away from the sexually-charged performances he...
Jun 23, 2022 · Why did the Colonel want to keep Elvis in the U.S.? Was it really because he didn’t have a passport and was afraid to travel outside the country for fear he’d be deported as an illegal alien?
Jun 25, 2022 · 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...
Jun 30, 2022 · 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—who ...
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Jun 26, 2022 · The new 'Elvis' film is not based on her book, nor did Luhrmann read it, by his account (although he says researchers presented him with notes from that and many other key Presley-related books).
Jun 25, 2022 · Did Elvis actually fire the colonel from the stage in Las Vegas? “No, he never would have done that,” Nash says. Nor did he ever suggest onstage that he knew of the colonel’s immigration...
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But then, as Baz Luhrmann's compelling biopic shows, he was the victim of systematic financial abuse by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. What Luhrmann glosses over is the fact that Parker’s mismanagement was facilitated by companies that turned a blind eye to some of his machinations, colluded in others and ignored many blatant conflicts of ...
