Graceland Official Auction August 2017

Alanna Nash's new Colonel Parker bio project set for 2018

I could write 100 novels about how much I respect, appreciate, enjoy, etc. all of the professional works by Alanna Nash. She is immensely talented and I have benefited, publicly and privately, greatly by having the honor to (first) or known about her and (second) know her personally. She has been a true blessing in my life and has been instrumental in my now seven year battle with cancer and all of the adverse effects.

Not only is she an exceptional writer, and journalist, but her works pertaining to Elvis Presley and/or Colonel Parker are "must reads - must haves".

I encourage everyone to seek out, support, purchase, let others know via social media, etc. all of the professional endeavors of Alanna Nash. Simply put she is the...best.

Now comes the exciting news that Alanna Nash is working on, and is an integral and priceless part of, a screen bio of Colonel Parker based upon her great book (see below for details).

* Courtesy of an unnamed press release:

Elvis Presley’s 1974 minor hit “My Boy” might serve as the alternative title for The Colonel, a film bio of the King’s Svengali-like manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The film is in the works from music and media producer Spencer Proffer (Chasing Trane, Gods & Monsters), producer-director Steve Binder(Elvis ’68; Diana Ross In Central Park) and filmmaker Joe Berlinger(Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster; Paul Simon’s Under African Skies tour). Production is slated for early 2018, the trio announced 

* Steven Binder is an exceptional talent who was instrumental in convincing Elvis of the type of TV program which Elvis would primarily perform before a live audience. This 1968 production, by Singer entitled "Elvis", was the highest rated show of 1968 and propelled Elvis back into super-stardom and the demand for Elvis's music, concerts, press, etc. was...phenomenal. I, and other Elvis Presley fans, owe Steve Binder a HUGE THANK YOU. Between Steven Binder, and Alanna Nash, I can't wait for this project to come to fruition and I wish them, their loved ones, their family members, etc. nothing but; success, good health, long life, happiness, etc. May God bless them. 

August 16 will mark the 40th anniversary of Presley’s death. Parker, who died in 1997 at age 87, exerted iron-clad control of his star, but “his personal life was a dangerous and well-orchestrated charade,” according to the filmmakers, whose movie will be based on Alanna Nash’s exhaustive 2003 biography The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story Of Colonel Tom Parker And Elvis Presley

https://www.amazon.com/Colonel-Extraordinary-Story-Parker-Presley/dp/155652546X

The team will work from an outline developed by Nash and Berlinger, and Nash will co-write the screenplay.

Born Andreas van Kuijk, Parker arrived in America as a 20-year old undocumented Dutch immigrant in 1929, possibly after he had bludgeoned a woman to death. He purchased his honorary title from a Louisiana man.

Jeff Schrembs
www.ElvisCollector.info