Lady sings the blues
Added 10/26/2009
I already have watched this movie but I would like to watch it again.
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Camp Trash. Diana is Pathetic
Added 2/20/2010
Everyone is good in this fictional movie except Diana Ross. She can squeak out a few Holiday covers but stinks in her overwrought acting. She starts out the first 20 or so minutes of the film playing a "girl ALMOST 14"! Ridiculous. Diana is laughable as a twenty-something woman talking girl talk, wearing pigtails, using what she thinks are child-like mannerisms and working in a whore house! The movie is loosely based on her autobiography which is loosely based on reality. Many, many things Billie claims happen just didn't. In essence, she lied. There are dozens and dozens of silly things about this movie that I will point out just a few: Billie NEVER saw a lynching as they show in the film. She did sing a song "Strange Fruit" about lynching but the movie would have you think she had something to do with writing the song after this event. She didn't. The song was written by a Jewish school teacher years earlier based on a picture in a book of a lynching. Billie just came across it and sang it. Next: she never ran into the KKK in her life and she certainly didn't scream and yell at the klansmen like they show her doing in this movie, drawing attention to herself and putting her life and her friends' lives all in danger. Never happened. She was a great singer but she was a junkie who lost her voice and died with $750.00 strapped to her leg, all she had left.
Diana screams, cries, goes hysterical, pouts, tries to play a junkie in this campy black "Valley of the Dolls" and is horrible. Diana has a tiny, whiny voice that is in no way like Billie's.
To make matters worse, she repeats the same mistake a few years later in "The Wiz", an otherwise good film she sinks by again playing a part written for a young girl and whining, crying, screaming and rarely smiling throughout (there are 3 songs where she cracks a smile unconvincingly). The woman just cannot act. Her voice is so slight she has no reason to be in a musical.
Instead of paying tribute to Billie she ends up slapping her in the face with a cheesy Lifetime movie interpretation of a truly great American artist.
The direction of "Lady Sings the Blues" is by-the-numbers. The other actors are good to great. They are the only reason to watch if you even bother.
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Lady Sings the Blues
Added 9/14/2009
Diana really should have won an Oscar for this movie and not Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music.
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Ross and Pryor should have been Oscar winners
Added 9/13/2009
I probally have seen "Lady Sings the Blues" over a 100 times,and its on TV right now.Its near the end after The Piano Man ,Richard Pryor,has just gotten killed.I'm amazed of his acting,and of course,Diana Ross.She is Billy Holiday,even the way she sings.I have alot of Holidays records,and Ross added her style blending with Billys to come up with one of the greatest performances ever on screen.
This DVD is a Classic,and its one of my top 10 films of all time.Even though I'm a Liza Minnelli fan,I wanted Ross to win the Oscar so bad that year,along with Richard Pryor.
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My purchase
Added 7/14/2009
I love the dvd I purchased of Lady Sings the Blues. Great quantity for a cheap price and quick shipment. Thanx Amazon. Looking forward to buying more great movies on here.
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Lady sings the blues
Added 7/1/2009
Excellent movie and good product, I had trouble finding it so I am extremely pleased
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Camp Trash. Diana is Pathetic
Added 2/20/2010
Everyone is good in this fictional movie except Diana Ross. She can squeak out a few Holiday covers but stinks in her overwrought acting. She starts out the first 20 or so minutes of the film playing a "girl ALMOST 14"! Ridiculous. Diana is laughable as a twenty-something woman talking girl talk, wearing pigtails, using what she thinks are child-like mannerisms and working in a whore house! The movie is loosely based on her autobiography which is loosely based on reality. Many, many things Billie claims happen just didn't. In essence, she lied. There are dozens and dozens of silly things about this movie that I will point out just a few: Billie NEVER saw a lynching as they show in the film. She did sing a song "Strange Fruit" about lynching but the movie would have you think she had something to do with writing the song after this event. She didn't. The song was written by a Jewish school teacher years earlier based on a picture in a book of a lynching. Billie just came across it and sang it. Next: she never ran into the KKK in her life and she certainly didn't scream and yell at the klansmen like they show her doing in this movie, drawing attention to herself and putting her life and her friends' lives all in danger. Never happened. She was a great singer but she was a junkie who lost her voice and died with $750.00 strapped to her leg, all she had left.
Diana screams, cries, goes hysterical, pouts, tries to play a junkie in this campy black "Valley of the Dolls" and is horrible. Diana has a tiny, whiny voice that is in no way like Billie's.
To make matters worse, she repeats the same mistake a few years later in "The Wiz", an otherwise good film she sinks by again playing a part written for a young girl and whining, crying, screaming and rarely smiling throughout (there are 3 songs where she cracks a smile unconvincingly). The woman just cannot act. Her voice is so slight she has no reason to be in a musical.
Instead of paying tribute to Billie she ends up slapping her in the face with a cheesy Lifetime movie interpretation of a truly great American artist.
The direction of "Lady Sings the Blues" is by-the-numbers. The other actors are good to great. They are the only reason to watch if you even bother.
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Lady Sings the Blues
Added 9/14/2009
Diana really should have won an Oscar for this movie and not Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music.
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