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BEST AVAILABLE COPY HILLS OUTLOOK II Elvis and the Colonel Early Christinas shopping at museum By The of popculture heroes has become somewhat bigger than a cottage industry In recent years There have probably been more books about Marilyn Monroe for Instance than about the Ken nedys and Martin Luther King com bined Similar if less elaborate treatment Is to James Dean Buddy Holly and John And then there Elvis Of all the pop Idols none seems to ignite more emotional hoopla than Presley The mere mention of his name can still send women In their Us Into lachrymose expressions of bereave more deeply felt than those reserved for next kin or fnvuriti The latest paean to Presley is a slender colled Colonel by Dirk Velltnga with Mick page I luilratrd III Perhaps pases seem but the last 100 pages arc devoted to a led listing of all Presley s recordings eluding dates of release and have good grasp of he undertaker s art They fcoHnlie that before the body can wise cosmetically treated so that the candidate for canonization appears not only beautiful but blameless The teat way to achieve the lost named goal Is to identify a villain a person or force at whose feet can be laid the blame for any warts too vlil to be Ignored In the case of Elvis the search for such a Judas began and ended with Col Tom Parker the rotund flamboyant manager who controlled Presley every move from almost the beginning of his career to its did end IN FIGHTING The colonel is a likely enough can for this role The ugly in fighting that followed Presley a messy death revealed much about Parker venality That he lived high on the hog and got more than his share of the proceeds of what the authors call the Elvis Industry is beyond dispute But Vellenga and have elected to go much farther to con struct an epic monster who not only cheated our hero but virtually designed and orchestrated Presley disintegration It might be an ex to say that Elvis Presley death warrant was signed on that red tablecloth but not that much of an exaggeration they write The red tablecloth was the one on which Parker signed a contract with a Las Vegas hotel owner that would pay Elvis a million dollars a year for five years The scam on Parker according to these harddigging Investigative Is supposed to shock a at of people even though Parkers secret was revealed several years ago during the legal battles over the Presley estate Col Tom Parker here it is folk was actually named Andreas van and he was bom In Breda Holland After a rebellious childhood he ran away from home Holland When he returned to the US Tor good be came as an Illegal immigrant and remained one He various menial jobs with carnivals in the 1930s and then drilled Into managing entertainers Over years he handled singers as Gene Austin Hank Snow and Eddy Arnold and according to our accusatory authors did nothing but hurt their careen The book grudgingly concedes that Parkers wheeling helped make Presley one of the highest paid entertainers in the rock n roll field during his 15 years of stardom But tbe authors still charge that Parker mismanaged Presley career Parker is blamed or example for the poor quality of the movies Elvis made especially those made after Presley twoyear hitch in the army In fact all but the tint four movies were made after his release and he made movies In all When Elvis was stationed in Germany Porker t visit his client for The authors that Parker ruined Presley career by greedily keeping him tied to movie studios for years during which be made no personal appearances Yet those films however bad they were made a lot money for Presley and Parker blame him for working Elvis hard thus lead the exhaustion that resulted In Presley a need for Here and there the book makes fleeting reference to the vogue that may have shared some of the blame The authors suggest that just possibly this could have stood up to the Col one guided his own destiny made decisions about the movies bed make or the songs he d ling There are even a few references to the Memphis Mafia the small army of sycophants and drug pushers who formed a protective wall a round Elvis keeping even the Colonel out Actually there is relatively little about Elvis Presley In this He is after all the candidate for canonization and his participation In the ceremony Is minimal The book Is about the greedy con Insensitive self serving manager who made every single decision concerning the Presley destiny and made them all for his own benefit The authors argue again and again that Parkers fear of ex of his Illegal status led the Colonel to keep Elvis from making appearances outside the US They to the fact that Parker allowed to do a 1973 show in Hawaii mostly because Parker need a passport in that US state No men lion Is made of the 1964 Presley movie Fun In filmed In Mexico where Parker would presumably have faced border crossing problems 1 As a final Indictment the authors lake Parker to task for his heartless exploitation of Presley after the stars death the continued sale of Vellenga and call the Elvis Industry until the courts stripped Parker of bis holdings It appears the Elvis Industry goes on and two more players have found a way Of entering It Alex Barrts a TnrontAarea author and film and charges Two Georgetown males have been charged by police in tlon with a Park fire deliberately set June Police say two suspects set portable stages on fire causing damage A youth IT and a Georgetown man have been charged by police with public mischief Both will ap pear in provincial court in October Over artisans from across the province will be displaying their crafts at the Ontario Agricultural Museum annual Christmas Craft Fair Saturday Sept and Sunday Sept Located In the rustic environ ment the Museum s Barn visitors have the opportunity to just browse or to purchase quail ly homemade crofts Nells DRIVING SCHOOL COURSE STARTS OCTOBER 3 to OCTOBER 26 Monday Wednesday Nights 630 to 9 30 For Information About Cotmaaa or Prima phone 8772671 exhibitors from Manttoulln Island to Terra Cotta wilt be In the Fair displaying quilts pottery knit sweaters jewellery folk art preserves and more Over 4 people last year came to visit during the twoday event The Ontario Agricultural Museum Is a 33 hectare outdoor site consisting of over 30 buildings and displays Costumed interpreters perform dally demonstrations of open- hearth cookery blacksmi thing spinning and weaving and wheel wrigb ting The Museum Is open dolly 10 am to m Admission la for adults SO for students for seniors and a family rate of This fee Includes admission to the Craft Fair are now under way The Halton Hills Herald invites you to submit recipes 1st prize 125 2nd prize 75 3rd prize 50 Be part of The His Herald s 1 Cook Book by sending us one or more of your favourite recipes You may be eligible to win part of prize money if your recipe is one of the top three chosen by our special panel of judges We II also print Ihe best of the other recipes you submit to 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