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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 · He did give a bill to Elvis and his father and business manager, Vernon Presley, for money he had spent or advanced to the star. The amount of that bill is uncertain. Most estimates have been in ...
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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 23, 2022 · He felt trapped by the contracts the colonel signed for him in the 1960s and ’70s—a resentment worsened by his drug abuse and the colonel’s gambling addiction.
- Grant Wong
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 ...
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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 interest.
