 Barbra Streisand (qv) insisted that she wanted  Elvis Presley (qv) for the part of John Norman Howard. She even  went to Las Vegas to see Elvis Presley after one of his performances  in 1975 and talked to him directly to convince him to play the part.  Elvis wanted to do it but the Colonel Tom Parker, his manager, was  angry that Streisand did not come to him first. He told the  producers that if they wanted Elvis, Elviss name had to be at the  top of the movie poster, above Streisands name. Moreover, it was  told that he asked them a very large sum of money while Elvis hadnt  been in a movie since 1969 and nobody knew what he could do at the  box