What's Love Got To Do With It?

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Check it out sometime. is the biopic of singer Tina Turner. Angela Basset received an Oscar nomination for her fearless performance, she is a powerhouse. This film is a bit much at times but the performances cancel out the soapy plot. What's Love Got To Do With It. Laurence Fishburne is at his creepiest playing Ike Turner, Tina's manager and abusive husband.

Toya Angela Bassett really did her thing in this movie. Purchase it now. This was an amazing movie. It is a must see.

Jenifer also played Real Estate Agent Toni Childs' mother Verreta, who embarasses her daughter with her Fresno manners on the sitcom "Girlfriends.". Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa (Remastered Edition) - Subtitled - 1951 by Akira Kurosawa (Remastered Edition) - Subtitled - 1951 ~ Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura (DVD - 2008). Laurence Fishburne was Morpheus. Private Dancer (1990) This is the Post Ike record that features the song WLGTDWI. Even better, see it in The Rolling Stones concert documentary Gimme Shelter. Laurence Fishburne played Swain in this adaptation of the book by Alice Walker.

The title song was used especially well, as a comment on Ike and Tina's relationship, and the fact that she had really moved on. The opening scene with the young Anna Mae Bullock (Rae'ven Kelly) singing in the church choir was priceless. Rhythm Rockin' Blues (1951) Rocket 88 (some say it's the first rock 'n roll song ever recorded) along with other Ike Turner music, can be heard on this record.

Angela Bassett portrays Dr. Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner by Ike Turner, Nigel Cawthorn, and Little Richard (Hardcover - Sep 15, 1999). that gave this film its title. She showed great potential and promise and energyas a rock and roller, not a holy roller. in African-American studies in 1980 and Yale drama school with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1983, sure doesn't show it here, as she becomes a shy but talented teenager named Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush, Tennessee. Great performances by Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne, and all the supporting cast. I, Tina by Tina Turner and Kurt Loder (Hardcover - Sep 1986).

Tina and the WLGTDWI. The Color Purple (1985) (as Larry Fishburne). As an aside, Fishburne turned down the role five times, when he thought that either Halle Berry or Whitney Houston were being cast, but upon hearing that Angela Bassett was going to do it, he finally accepted. As a biography it ranks up there with Walk the Line, but perhaps a slight notch below Ray. But for all the great music, they left out a song and performance that was really special, and I wonder why they left out the Ike & Turner version of the Otis Redding song, "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)".

Lots of great costumes on Tina, the band, and the back up singers, the Ikettes. The Matrix (1999). I liked the wild fashions, especially the ones that Ike wore as the 70's raged on. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection (1970) Besides the Stones and what happened at Altamont, there is some fine footage of Ike & Tina Turner performing I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) that is much sexier than anything in WLGTDWI. How cool is that. No, they didn't do it at Altamont, but were on tour with The Stones and their raunchy, sexually charged duet really brought down the house at Madison Square Gardens. Great music, and really spectacular concert scenes that captured the excitement of their performances.

70's fashion can really make you look like a clown, but it showed how like a chameleon, he changed his look to match his surroundings, and went with the flow of the fashion. A very fine film that tells the story from Tina Turner's point of view. As Ike and Tina Turner, they have some very dramatic and harrowing scenes, and they both deliver stellar performances.

Lucille, The Shoveler's Wife, is played by Jenifer Lewis, who played Zelma Bulluck, Anna Mae's mother, in WLGTDWI. Angela, who graduated from Yale with a B.A. film makers might have thought it too risque, or that it would disrupt the narrative they were fashioning; but I think it would have shed a little light on certain aspects of their relationship, as well as showing what an incendiary act the Ike & Tina Turner Review could be. Malcolm X (1992). She has lived an incredible life, and her story makes for a very dramatic and compelling narrative.

You can hear it on their 1968 Blue Thumb album entitled "Outta Season". As the choir director escorted her to the door, pulling her by the ear, you just knew that she was going someplace. She received an Oscar nomination, but lost out to Holly Hunter for The Piano. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X. Mystery Men (1999).

Someplace else. This was a very dramatic movie, that was overall pretty good, but like Ike Turner, it got a little heavy handed at times. She has come such a long way since she was that little girl from Nutbush, Tennessee, Anna Mae Bullock, who was thrown out of the church choir.

Due to what Tina has endured, it was impossible to watch it a second time. However, this will be in one of my all time favorites, as it had a happy ending. Thank you. I enjoyed watching this film as it gave me the insight to one of my favorite legends. Isn't that why we all go to the movies.