WEB p. If you torrent without a VPN, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action! Parental Guide. This doc compiles the many years of research from the intelligent, yet sensitive, audio taped interviews of Linda Lipnack Kuehl along with her research into the paper trail documentation of Billie's life.
Unfortunately Linda died before she could edit it all into a source story although many other's have utilized her research on Billie's life. Note: , Count Basie introduces Billie age 22 into the band and to the audience with perhaps the first recorded singing rhyming rap lyric. Amazing to hear how current it sounded.
It's a documentary on the singer Billie Holiday based on research and oral interviews by Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who died in under mysterious circumstances, which meant she could not finish the book she was writing about Holiday.
The story told in that movie seemed to have a passing connection to reality, and much of it was pretty bad despite the praise Ross received for playing the role. Ross did not have the depth to play such a complex person. This minute documentary makes excellent use of Kuehl's audio interviews of musicians that worked with Holiday, friends from her early life, and people like one of the pimps from her early life as a prostitute.
It was chilling to hear him laugh about prostitutes liking to be beaten up. Accompanying the interviews is a lot of Holiday music and film footage that matches well the interviews. The most striking musical piece for me was "Strange Fruit," which explicitly references victims of lynching as the "strange fruit. Billie Holiday was supremely talented, lived a hard life, and had an unstable personality. She died from abuse of drink and drugs, aged just This documentary is interesting as it contains candid interviews from those who knew her, conducted by a female journalist who was researching her life in the s; her work never reached fruition as she died young herself, in what some of those close to her believe to have been suspicious circumstances.
We don't really get any insight into the latter death; we do get a more interesting though unpolished insight into the singer's life, unfiltered by the hagiography that can spoil some films made too many years after the fact.
The speed of Holiday's decline is tragic; it's clear she had problems of her own, but also that those around her and the racist world she lived in certainly made them worse. But the film does do justice to her brilliance; to this day, she pretty much defines what a jazz singer is, and she dared to call out racism too.
It's definitely worth watching, even if jazz isn't your usual beat. Login Register. The other boys, however, still consider her their convenient "squeeze", with trag The other boys, however, still consider her their convenient "squeeze", with tragic results. Sign In. Crime Drama. Directors Daniel Petrie Sidney Sheldon uncredited.
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Bruce Atkins Sheriff as Sheriff. Daniel Petrie Sidney Sheldon uncredited. Ron Batron story Ron Turbeville screenplay story. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. What took place in that town in should have been a love story. Did you know Edit. Trivia Loosely based on real-life events that occurred in writer Ron Turbeville 's hometown of Florence, South Carolina in
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