In Defense Of Jazz Biopics: Melodramas And Morality Tales, Set To Music
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Many jazz fans hate biopic films, but critic Kevin Whitehead likes noticing which true elements get in — or get left out — as messy lives are squeezed into stock-story formulas.
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