“Elvis” Underscores Stunning Financial, Emotional Abuse By Colonel Tom Parker

Trigger warning: This blog post mentions financial and emotional abuse and contains spoilers.

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Reviewers have described Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis as chaotic, grand, flashy, and like a fever dream — much like its titular subject, who went from local phenom to legend overnight during the late 1950s thanks to his then-divisive suggestive…