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Article: Films catch pressures of pop music stardom
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 30, 1989
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Given their perennial popularity and raucous energy, it seems
odd that Hollywood has not turned out more films about rock 'n' roll
and country music stars. Today's release of the highly hyped "Great
Balls of Fire" (playing at local theaters) - the story of seminal
'50s rocker Jerry Lee Lewis - might change that, but the genre seems
to have some fundamental cinematic limitations. Many of these stars'
lives have been too debauched, unenlightening and brief to make
upbeat drama.
The tales of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, for example, would
make for pretty dark and unresolved entertainment. Also, their lives
tend to be riddled with so many controversies that the sanitized
legend sometimes ...