Until well after the star died, and his own health failed, the Colonel, and a modest staff, were it as far as Elvis' organization (which likely makes those who wished, f'rinstance, that the current movie had been built more around Parker, even more wishful thereof) B
Tom Wolper, to Kevin M, in part, July 1st: > As a mental exercise I've been trying to think of what would have happened > if a good director of the Elvis era movies had made a movie with him. > Someone like Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, or John Frankenheimer. *First, > I think Tom Parker, or whoever handled these things in Elvis's management, > would have sent back the script and said "no way."* If they did manage to > get it to the shooting stage the director would probably get rid of Elvis > within a week for not being up to the material. Hollywood wanted cheap and > easy Elvis movies and that's what they put together for him. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/52d8b715-eeec-4c3f-99ef-15c3c468dd96n%40googlegroups.com.
