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Article: SAVED BY SOUL ; 'The Night James Brown Saved Boston' an engrossing history lesson
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
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- August 22, 2008
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Movie review - APRIL 5, 1968
BOSTON - Despite the hyperbolic title, "The Night James Brown
Saved Boston" is a soulful documentary about a city and an
entertainer doing the right thing for all the wrong reasons.
Yes, the hip-swiveling Brown and the truth-swiveling Kevin White,
Boston's Machiavellian mayor, did team to keep the city's Roxbury
section from going up in flames the night following the
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., but the welfare of the
public was not nearly as dear to them as their egos.
The film, showing through Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts,
reveals the men of color (Brown and White) to be of such pride and
selfishness that it almost seems a freak accident that ...