I watched this last night. It was good and I enjoyed it, but like
@FetchFugly said, there was so much more there. I feel like it could have been extended by an hour, but I also understand why they needed to keep it to a 2 hour film, but a little mini series might have worked better for me. There was so much missing.
It wasn't a whitewash or sycophantic- I'm really glad they addressed the whole "AIDS" thing, but it didn't really provide a satisfactory conclusion to it (though I do believe her side, I don't understand why the whole "Adam and Steve" thing she admitted wasn't really examined) and there was a massive gap for me in the whole "Disco Sucks" era being missed out and how that affected her/ her music too, which would have interested me. You'd think from the documentary that her career ended in 1983, basically, and the whole "she just wanted to concentrate on family" was obviously horseshit, but then they didn't even mention the comeback in 1989 or the 20 years of being one of the leading ladies of the club/ dance scene, which I think was a shame. I was also REALLY gearing up for some BABS juice with glee, but they obviously couldn't get an interview out of her, which was sad, because No More Tears was glossed over as well, really. I didn't like the shade put on it by the Dim All The Lights furore (which I had never actually heard of before, and didn't realise that was the catalyst for the lawsuit.) I loved a lot of the archival footage too, but it did get a bit samey in the end.
Anyway, what it has done is sparked a Donna- fire in my listening. Just had a LOVELY mince to my office with "Four Seasons of Love" on and worked a treat in the sunshine. All together now...
FEVER!
SUMMER!
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Summer FEVER!
SUMMER!
But semi related is a new film about Casablanca Records ‘Spinning Gold’
