Spoiler alert! The following discusses plot points from the new 'Elvis' movie and the real life of Elvis Presley. We identified six moments in “Elvis” that made us scratch our heads. Just how true are they?
But we identified six moments in “Elvis” that made us scratch our heads. Just how true are they? For answers, we enlisted expert Alanna Nash, the author of several Elvis books .Did B.B. King and Elvis Presley really hang out together on Beale Street?
But toward the end of the evening, DJ Rufus Thomas brought Elvis out for a “leg gyration and the crowd went wild.” Backstage, King and Presley posed together for a picture. The senator was shot elsewhere in Los Angeles, and“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.
Nash notes that Parker was an inveterate gambler dating back to his early years in the carnival business, often decamping for Hot Springs, Arkansas, or Palm Springs, California, to satisfy his needs. Once he experienced Las Vegas, that became a frequent stop for the promoter. After Elvis was drafted, Parker – whom Nash notes was an Army deserter – worked with the Pentagon to ensure he'd be a regular soldier and not in the entertainment corps.Interestingly, when Elvis was stationed in Germany, he met future General Colin Powell, a lieutenant at the time.
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