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☆ Whitney Houston biopic shows why it was absurd to think she didn't make 'Black music.'
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( H. Drew Blackburn | H. Drew Blackburn Is A Writer | Editor Based In Austin | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
“I Wanna Dance with Somebody” suffers from thin dialogue and predictability — dull trappings intrinsic to biopics. Naomi Ackie as Whitney Houston in "I Wanna Dance with Somebody." To wit: Whitney Houston was a Black woman — ate Black, slept Black, lived Black, cried Black, walked Black and died Black. The most peculiar aspect of this criticism is the fact that nearly all American music is Black music. While Houston has mostly elided criticism that she wasn’t Black enough or didn’t make Black music, the spirit of this indictment lives on today.
☆ Roku movie 'Weird' about Weird Al Yankovic is fake, funny and meta
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Bryan Reesman | Bryan Reesman Is A New York-Based Reporter | The Author Of The Book | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
Weird Al, known for taking famous pop and rock songs and sending them up by rewriting the lyrics. It began as a fake movie trailer that director Eric Appel made in 2013 as a sketch for Funny or Die. It featured Aaron Paul, Olivia Wilde, Gary Cole, Mary Steenburgen, Patton Oswalt and yes, Weird Al. Yankovic noted that the day after the trailer came out, “if you did a Google search for Weird Al, the first thing is, ‘Did Weird Al date Madonna?’ Everybody wanted to know. Weird Al Yankovic during a photo shoot in Los Angeles in 1984.
☆ Daniel Radcliffe on playing a very shirtless 'Weird Al' in new satirical biopic
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Saba Hamedy | Saba Hamedy Is The Culture | Trends Editor For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
When people think of "Weird Al" Yankovic, they usually think of comedic takes on hit songs from his heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. But in the upcoming “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” actor Daniel Radcliffe plays a very exaggerated version of Yankovic, who quite often appears shirtless on screen. "I'm shirtless more as 'Weird Al' than as anything I’ve done since 'Equus,'" Radcliffe said in a recent interview, referring to his post-"Harry Potter" Broadway stint for which he had to strip naked on stage. In February 2019, Yankovic reached out to Appel to begin developing what would become "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story," which debuts on The Roku Channel on Friday. "my favorite gag from weird al’s biopic is how daniel radcliffe is ripped and constantly shirtless for no reason," one Twitter user wrote.
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