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Article: Real-life Teenagers say movie misses mark Film based on their lives, `Why Do Fools Fall in Love,' not whole truth, they say
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 6, 1998
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Herman Santiago isn't a professional movie critic, but when he and
his friends show up in a film, he's bound to have a few
observations.
And when the film is "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," he's not crazy
about what he sees.
The story in "Fools" stems from the pioneering mid-'50s New York
vocal group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Santiago was an
original member of that group, and he still sings in it today.
The movie doesn't make Santiago terribly happy. It gets some
things right and some things wrong, he says, but mainly, he believes
there's a great movie to be made from the Teenagers' story and this
isn't it.
Back in 1955, Santiago and four friends from Harlem Jimmy
Merchant, Joe ...