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The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture ...
Parker was indeed born in 1909 but wasn’t from West Virginia and in fact wasn’t even American. What’s more he wasn’t a ...
Peter Guralnick completes his biographical trilogy with The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the ...
We saw footage of "Elvis" at CinemaCon, and Tom Hanks is incredible in it. He plays Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's manager, and he's evil but also captivating.
Colonel Tom appealed to the singer’s father, Vernon, to step in and try to convince Elvis to get help. “It became a question of how do you get a man to save himself,” says Terrill.
Helping Elvis Presley, right, cut a straight furrow is his business manager and confidant, “Colonel” Tom Parker of Madison, Tenn. on January 7, 1957. Scene is from the set of the Presley movie ...
Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, ran the singer’s career with rigid control. He exercised a similar level of oversight over Elvis’ personal life. He encouraged him to get married ...
During the Elvis panel at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, the Oscar winner, 65, shared what it was like to go against type to play an unlikeable character like Colonel Tom Parker, who ...
It’s fair to say that the curiosity of more than a few people was piqued by Tom Hanks’ portrayal of Elvis Presley’s career-long manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the Austin Butler-starring ...
Alanna Nash’s 2010 biography on Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley has become a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon following Baz Luhrmann’s new “Elvis” biopic that premiered this past weekend ...
Tom Parker in New York during a 1972 press conference for Elvis Presley. Photo: The Estate of David Gahr/Getty Images I love a good contrarian pop-culture take. The Beatles have too many fans.
Helping Elvis Presley, right, cut a straight furrow is his business manager and confidant, “Colonel” Tom Parker of Madison, Tenn. on January 7, 1957. Scene is from the set of the Presley movie ...