Colonel Tom Parker was much funnier than Baz Luhrmann gives him credit for—but he could also be just as scary as he is onscreen.
In 1963, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s audacious manager who had gotten his start selling candy apples in carnivals, read in the paper that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht, the U.S.S.was going to be salvaged. Some called it his “Floating White House.” But Parker, who was born in Holland in 1909 as Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk and never became an American citizen, didn’t care about that. He saw theas just another snow job, as he called his art of the con.
But in Luhrmann’s film, Hanks plays it hammy and over the top. It works when he issues a rejoinder to Hank Snow, who objects to Elvis’s wiggling, but his funniest line is almost lost in the hustle and bustle of the filming of Elvis’s ’68 comeback special, sponsored by the Singer sewing machine company. Walking down the hall, the Colonel hits up the Singer rep for a free machine for Priscilla: “Mrs.
For what it’s worth, the film has it right when Elvis gets suggestive with a plaster Nipper, the RCA dog, in concert. But it’s said to have happened at the Pan-Pacific show.Several times throughout the film, Parker as narrator, says that “you,” meaning the people who loved Elvis, were at the heart of Elvis’s fatal problems. In other words, his loyal subjects killed the king. And it’s true that Parker never seems to have taken any blame.
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