Hanks, Tom
Watch Austin Butler Cause Hysteria in ‘Elvis’
In the sequence, Elvis (Austin Butler) is giving one of his first performances in front of an audience while Col. Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), the man who would become his manager, watches on. While historically Elvis’s first big introduction was said to be at Sun Records, performing for its owner, Sam Phillips, the film takes […]
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‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life
As a Presley biography, “Elvis” is not especially illuminating. The basic stuff is all there, as it would be on Wikipedia. Elvis is haunted by the death of his twin brother, Jesse, and devoted to his mother, Gladys (Helen Thomson). Relations with his father, Vernon (Richard Roxburgh), are more complicated. The boy grows up poor […]
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Paul Rudd Hosts a Year-End ‘S.N.L.’ Disrupted by the Omicron Variant
In a week when the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus had disrupted Broadway shows, concerts, sports and numerous other entertainment events, “Saturday Night Live” inevitably found it challenging to broadcast live from New York. Hours before a year-end holiday “S.N.L.” episode that was to be hosted by Paul Rudd and feature […]
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