06 January 2019, 01:31 AM
Steve MillerFlorence Foster Jenkins
I just watched the movie and then read the Wiki. What an interesting woman. Hers is quite a story.
That story, and the movie, speak to the nature of music as entertainment. Very cool.
Have you seen it?
06 January 2019, 11:42 AM
DanielNope, but it sounds interesting.
06 January 2019, 11:54 AM
DanielI should add I got rid of my television seven years ago.
I haven't looked back on the decision.
We watch movies on the laptop.
We have Netflix and Amazon Prime.
So, I'll look for this.
06 January 2019, 01:59 PM
wtgquote:
Originally posted by Steve Miller:
I just watched the movie and then read the Wiki. What an interesting woman. Hers is quite a story.
That story, and the movie, speak to the nature of music as entertainment. Very cool.
Have you seen it?
I have; it popped up on Prime a while back and I caught it then. I wondered how much the syphilis and the associated treatments affected her cognitively, and if that was a contributor to what happened.
06 January 2019, 11:30 PM
Steve MillerI was most interested in the number of devoted fans she had, some of them the biggest names in music.
Entertainment takes many forms.
07 January 2019, 12:51 PM
NinaI watched it and enjoyed it, but my most significant recollections are pretty trivial, to wit: Hugh Grant was poorly cast; that Meryl Streep can really act.
08 January 2019, 03:58 PM
DanThe movie was good. And if I recall correctly, the recording of her performance at Carnegie Hall in 1944 remains to this day the best selling recording of any performance there.