Lenny Kravz tells why he dropped out of playg Marv Gaye a planned bpic on the sger.
Contents:
- WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
- IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER
- A MARV GAYE MIL BPIC WH THE FULL BACKG OF MOTOWN IS THE WORKS
- LENNY KRAVZ FALLY EXPLAS WHY HE DROPPED OUT OF THE MARV GAYE BPIC
- WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG
- WHAT IS HAPPENG WH THE MARV GAYE BPIC DR. DRE IS PRODUCG?
- DR. DRE-PRODUCED MARV GAYE BPIC HEAD TO SCREENS 2023
- MARV GAYE
- WHAT HAPPENED TO JSE L. MART’S MARV GAYE FILM?
- DR. DRE PRODUCG MARV GAYE BPIC, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’
- 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
- DA 5 BLOODS: THE SECRET MEANG MARV GAYE’S HNTG SONGSPIKE LEE EXPLAS WHY HE CHOSE THAT UNSETTLG VERSN OF “WHAT’S GOG ON” FOR HIS VIETNAM WAR DRAMA.BY ANTHONY BREZNINJUNE 17, 2020BY DAVID LEE/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMARV GAYE’S “WHAT’S GOG ON” IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMO SONGS OF ALL TIME, BUT THOSE WHO WATCH SPIKE LEE’S NEW WAR FILM DA 5 BLOODS WILL HEAR AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY: STRIPPED OF SOOTHG AND SOULFUL ORCHTRATN, LEAVG ONLY THE LATE SGER’S PRISTE VOICE, ECHOG SLIGHTLY.IT’S ALMOST GHOST-LIKE, SGG OF BYGONE PA RENEWED—AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHY THE FILMMAKER CHOSE FOR HIS NETFLIX WAR DRAMA.GAYE’S MIC WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THGS LEE ADD TO THE PROJECT WHEN HE AND WRER KEV WILLMOTT (WHO SHARED AN OSR WH LEE FOR BLACKKKLANSMAN) CHANGED THE SCRIPT OM THE STORY OF FOUR OLD VIETNAM VETS ON A TREASURE HUNT TO ADD THE DIMENSN OF FOUR BLACK MEN GRAPPLG WH WHY THEY FOUGHT SO HARD FOR A UNTRY THAT NEVER FULLY VALUED THEM.“WE WANTED TO MAKE THE STORY ABOUT AIN AMERIN VIETNAM VETS,” LEE TOLD VANY FAIR. “AND WE WANTED TO CLU THE MIC OF ONE OF THE [GREATT] ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, MY OPN—MARV GAYE’S WHAT’S GOG ON.”THE 1971 ALBUM IS A THEMATIC MATCH FOR THE FILM. ALTHOUGH GAYE DID NOT PERSONALLY SERVE VIETNAM, HE CRAFTED AS A KD OF NCEPT ALBUM OM THE POT OF VIEW OF A SOLDIER RETURNG TO UNRT AND UPHEAVAL BACK HOME. THERE WAS ALSO A FAY NNECTN. “MARV GAYE’S BROTHER, FRANKIE, DID THREE TOURS VIETNAM. HE WAS A RAD OPERATOR. AND HE WOULD WRE MARV ALL THE TIME, SO MARV WAS GETTG A FIRSTHAND ACUNT OM HIS BROTHER ABOUT THE HORRORS OF THE WAR,” LEE SAID. “THOSE LETTERS WERE REALLY THE IMPET OF ONE OF THE GREATT ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, SO I WANTED TO CLU MARV’S SONGS.”THAT BACKSTORY ADDS ANOTHER LAYER TO THE LYRIC, “BROTHER, BROTHER, BROTHER/ THERE’S FAR TOO MANY OF YOU DYG...”RATHER THAN PLAY THE CLASSIC RERDG DURG THE FILM’S TENSE CLIMAX, LEE CID TO E A LTLE-KNOWN A PPELLA VERSN. FTGLY, WAS TRODUCED TO LEE BY HIS YOUNGER BROTHER. “YEAH, NO ONE’S HEARD ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ SUNG LIKE THAT,” THE FILMMAKER SAID. “MY BROTHER CQUé [LEE] FOUND THAT ON THE TER.” IT’S PRENTED THE FILM WH ONLY SOME SLIGHT ENGEERG. “ORIGALLY, YOU HEAR A LTLE BLEED-THROUGH, THROUGH MARV’S HEADPHON, BUT WE TOOK THAT OUT. WE GOT THAT OUT,” LEE SAID.SPIKE LEE BEHD THE SCEN WH (OM LEFT) PETERS, LDO, MAJORS, AND LEWIS.ALL CREDS: BY DAVID LEE/NETFLIX.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONTHERE’S ANOTHER TRAGIC PARALLEL TO NSIR. GAYE WAS KILLED APRIL 1984 AFTER GETTG THE MIDDLE OF AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN HIS MOTHER AND FATHER. DURG THE ALTERTN, HIS FATHER—MARV GAY SR.— SHOT HIS SON THE CHT, KILLG THE SGER STANTLY.DA 5 BLOODS ALSO FEATUR A HOSTILE AND AT TIM VLENT RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON, WH DELROY LDO GENERATG OSR TALK FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS PL—A BATIVE, STUBBORN, AND CREASGLY VOLATILE OLD-TIMER WHO HAS EXPLOSIVE CLASH WH HIS GROWN SON (JONATHAN MAJORS), WHO HAS JOED THE TRIP ONLY TO HELP KEEP HIS FATHER SAFE.LDO’S CHARACTER HASN’T BEEN VIETNAM FOR MORE THAN FOUR S, BUT HE HAS NEVER STOPPED FIGHTG—WH HIS FAY, WH HIMSELF, AND EVEN WH HIS OWN PEOPLE. HIS OLD IENDS ARE SHOCKED (AND FEEL MORE THAN A LTLE BETRAYED) WHEN THEY LEARN HE HAS BEE A SUPPORTER OF DONALD TMP. AS LEE PUTS : “PL IS A MAGA-HAT-WEARG MOTHERFUCKER.”THE PEACEFUL, TELLECTUAL, AND EMOTNAL FLOW OF GAYE’S MIC IS A NTRAST TO THE RAGG SEA SI PL. “IT WORKS FOR THE SCENE BEE MARV GAYE, AND THAT SONG ‘WHAT’S GOG ON,’ IS A PLEA FOR HUMANY, A PLEA FOR LOVE, KDNS. AND THAT’S SOMETHG THAT DELROY’S CHARACTER DON’T HAVE,” LEE SAID. “HE NEVER ME BACK RIGHT. DELROY’S CHARACTER IS A TRAGIC CHARACTER. HE’S TWISTED, HE HAS MONS. YOU KNOW THAT SAYG, ‘IF I DIDN’T HAVE BAD LUCK, I WOULDN’T HAVE ANY LUCK AT ALL’?”COCINTALLY, THAT’S ACTUALLY A LE OM 1954’S “BAD LUCK BLU” BY LIGHTN’ SLIM.THERE’S ONE MORE MIL REFERENCE DA 5 BLOODS THAT ISN’T NNECTED TO GAYE, BUT ALSO HAS S ROOTS MOTOWN. THE HT: LDO PLAYS PL, MAJORS PLAYS HIS SON DAVID, CLARKE PETERS PLAYS OTIS, ISIAH WHLOCK JR. IS MELV, AND NORM LEWIS IS EDDIE.“NO ONE’S EVER YOU WILL NOW,” LEE SAID. “ALL THE CHARACTER’S NAM, THOSE ARE THE FIVE GUYS OM THE ORIGAL TEMPTATNS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— “CAN WE LIVE?” THE DGHTER OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ON THE QUTN THAT’S HNTED HER FOR DES— CATHERE O’HARA, QUEEN OF SCHT’S CREEK, TALKS GILDA RADNER FRIENDSHIP & MORE— EXCLIVE: STEPHEN KG’S THE STAND COM TO LIFE AGA— JEFEY EPSTE: SEVEN REMAG MYSTERI—AND DISTURBG REVELATNS— OLD HOLLYWOOD’S MOST SNDALO SECRETS, AS TOLD BY DAVID NIVEN— TREVOR NOAH AND THE DAILY SHOW AREN’T JT SURVIVG—THEY’RE THRIVG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: SIDNEY POIER’S POTED MSAGE TO WHE AMERI AS RACE RTS SWEPT THE NATN THE SUMMER OF 1967LOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.ANTHONY BREZNIN
WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
Warner Bros Lands Allen Hugh-Directed Marv Gaye Film; Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iove To Produce * marvin gaye movie 2020 *
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has land What’s Gog On, a bpic of inic soul sger Marv Gaye that Allen Hugh will direct, and produce wh Dr. The stud acquired a script by poet-playwright Marc Gardley (he wrote the mil The Color Purple for WB) and the sger’s tate and Motown are part of the al so there will be rights to e all of Gaye’s signature songs. Every film of me but the perd film From Hell had some Marv Gaye , and I’ve jt always nnected to him.
IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER
Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" featur a half-dozen songs om Marv Gaye's landmark "What's Gog On," a radil ncept album of prott mic. * marvin gaye movie 2020 *
The Marv Gaye tate and Motown are squarely aboard, wh the sger’s widow, Jan Gaye, beg an executive producer along wh Suzanne Passe. Hugh and the producers immediately will beg the search for the actor to play Gaye.
Not only do pict the tumultuo relatnship he had wh his father, celebrat the life of the women who fluenced Gaye’s reer and spired some of the most inic love songs of all time. Gaye’s early reer helped shape the Motown sounds of the ’60.
Gaye’s mise was tragic: A day before his 45th birthday 1984, he was shot ad by his father. Gaye was ducted posthumoly to the Songwrers Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A MARV GAYE MIL BPIC WH THE FULL BACKG OF MOTOWN IS THE WORKS
Warner Bros has announced has bought the rights to an upg Marv Gaye bpic tled What’s Gog On, to be directed by Allen Hugh." name="scriptn * marvin gaye movie 2020 *
Hugh said he expects to e Gaye’s voice the pictn of his songs the film.
LENNY KRAVZ FALLY EXPLAS WHY HE DROPPED OUT OF THE MARV GAYE BPIC
* marvin gaye movie 2020 *
In “What’s Happeng Brother, ” a shimmerg cut om his classic 1971 album “What’s Gog On, ” Marv Gaye sgs om the perspective of an Amerin soldier who’s jt returned home om Vietnam. “Can’t fd no work, n’t fd no job, ” he laments before layg out his bewilrment unsparg terms ma only more plative by how tenrly Gaye livers them: “I jt don’t unrstand what’s gog on across this land.
By this pot the story, we’ve already gotten to know the men, but hearg them sg Gaye’s words, we e to unrstand how eply they were bond by the shared experience Lee’s film seeks to illumate.
WARNER BROS. ACQUIR MARV GAYE BPIC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ WH DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE PRODUCG
See Marv Gaye full list of movi and tv shows om their reer. Fd where to watch Marv Gaye's latt movi and tv shows" data-hid="scriptn * marvin gaye movie 2020 *
”Yet nearly 50 years after Gaye ptured the tumult of that early-’70s moment, “What’s Gog On” speaks no ls vividly of our own era. Racism, poverty, police vlence, unemployment, the stctn of the environment — ’s all there Gaye’s masterpiece, a landmark of Amerin prott mic all the more powerful bee me om an artist not prevly regnized as a polil figure. More recently, artists like Solange, Frank Ocean and Blood Orange have taken spiratn om Gaye’s tailed groov and empathetic anyone faiar wh the history of Motown, where Gaye rerd for the majory of his reer, has likely heard the stori of how the soul legend (who died 1984 after he was shot by his father) battled wh Motown founr Berry Gordy Jr.
Over his termatn to break om the label’s factory-like approach to songwrg and productn to create somethg more expansive and style Gaye veloped for “What’s Gog On” — which he produced himself, much of Detro over a sgle 10-day stretch — was lh but mournful, peppered wh Lat percsn and lightly gild wh strgs played by members of the Detro Symphony Orchtra.
Volly, Gaye “fally learned how to sg” on “What’s Gog On, ” he told bgrapher David Rz.
WHAT IS HAPPENG WH THE MARV GAYE BPIC DR. DRE IS PRODUCG?
Sexual Healg: Directed by Julien Temple. Wh Vicky Krieps, S. Epatha Merkerson, Clarke Peters, Jse L. Mart. The film foc on the later years of Marv Gaye as he lived Europe, puttg his past dg abe behd him and wrote his h song Sexual Healg, along wh promoter Freddy Coaert." data-id="ma * marvin gaye movie 2020 *
”In fact, the mic is so pretty that ’s possible to lose foc on Gaye’s stark lyrics about the “trigger-happy policg” he tails “Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler). ” (Of tertwg Blanchard’s mic and Gaye’s songs the new movie, Lee said: “They go together the same way Aaron Copland went together wh Public Enemy ‘He Got Game. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angel Tim) Which isn’t to say that Gaye ma the album wh such a clear-head sense of purpose.
DR. DRE-PRODUCED MARV GAYE BPIC HEAD TO SCREENS 2023
As a child, mician Devon Gilfillian remembers his father, a profsnal weddg sger, harmonizg wh Marv Gaye’s inic “What’s Gog On” album their livg room. While the groove of the mic was palpable, the lyrics were lost on a young Gilfillian. * marvin gaye movie 2020 *
“There’s not one Black person Ameri who didn’t get what Marv was talkg about, ” said Mary Wilson, the former Suprem sger who was a close iend and Motown lleague of Gaye’s. ” Lee, meanwhile, dodged a qutn about whom he se as Gaye’s herors. “I’m not gonna answer that, bee I don’t wanna get trouble leavg somebody out, ” he the director’s proment e of “What’s Gog On” “Da 5 Bloods, ” which explicly nnects historil trma to the current moment wh a subplot volvg Print Tmp, argu that Gaye’s statement still rounds — and that n still open mds.
MARV GAYE
Marv Gaye. Warner Bros has announced has bought the rights to an upg Marv Gaye bpic tled What’s Gog On, to be directed by Allen Hugh.
“Every film of me but the perd film From Hell had some Marv Gaye , and I’ve jt always nnected to him. There have been plenty of great artists, and then Marv, his own more: The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legend“When you listen, one measure you feel like you’ve read a novel.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JSE L. MART’S MARV GAYE FILM?
”Read more: Marv Gaye's 10 greatt songs ever, rankedOver the years, there have been var attempts by different filmmakers to direct a Marv Gaye film, but they have all fallen through until will work wh Gaye’s tate and Motown on the project, so will have the rights to e all of the inic sger’s signature songs. Marv Gaye sgg 'I Heard Through the Grapeve' wh vols stripped is credible.
'What's Gog On' by Marv GayeWrten by poet Marc Gardley, the film is scribed as a "mil odyssey" focg on “the life of one of Ameri’s greatt sgers and micians” film will feature the story of his past wh events that helped shape his legendary fal tour. It will also feature the tumultuo relatnship Gaye had wh his father - who eventually shot and killed his famo son - and will celebrate the life of the women who fluenced Gaye’s reer, and spired some of the greatt love songs of all time.
DR. DRE PRODUCG MARV GAYE BPIC, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’
At this pot, you uld make a pellg film about all the aborted attempts to make a pellg film about Marv Gaye.
Enter Lenny Kravz a year later, wh the sger g on board as Gaye for what would have been his first lead role a film.
50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
The movie foced on Gaye’s stt Europe the early 1980s when he was tryg to curb a dg addictn, get his health back, and rtart his reer.
Dpe Temple’s film reportedly securg the rights to Gaye’s mic — a feat that stymied many of his petors — never got off the ground and remas a “What if?
“I went to Oostend, ” Kravz tells Rollg Stone, referrg to the small Belgian cy where Gaye lived and cleaned up. Gaye would ntue to live abroad and engeered a reer eback wh 1982’s Midnight Love, which featured his fal h “Sexual Healg.
DA 5 BLOODS: THE SECRET MEANG MARV GAYE’S HNTG SONGSPIKE LEE EXPLAS WHY HE CHOSE THAT UNSETTLG VERSN OF “WHAT’S GOG ON” FOR HIS VIETNAM WAR DRAMA.BY ANTHONY BREZNINJUNE 17, 2020BY DAVID LEE/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMARV GAYE’S “WHAT’S GOG ON” IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMO SONGS OF ALL TIME, BUT THOSE WHO WATCH SPIKE LEE’S NEW WAR FILM DA 5 BLOODS WILL HEAR AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY: STRIPPED OF SOOTHG AND SOULFUL ORCHTRATN, LEAVG ONLY THE LATE SGER’S PRISTE VOICE, ECHOG SLIGHTLY.IT’S ALMOST GHOST-LIKE, SGG OF BYGONE PA RENEWED—AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHY THE FILMMAKER CHOSE FOR HIS NETFLIX WAR DRAMA.GAYE’S MIC WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THGS LEE ADD TO THE PROJECT WHEN HE AND WRER KEV WILLMOTT (WHO SHARED AN OSR WH LEE FOR BLACKKKLANSMAN) CHANGED THE SCRIPT OM THE STORY OF FOUR OLD VIETNAM VETS ON A TREASURE HUNT TO ADD THE DIMENSN OF FOUR BLACK MEN GRAPPLG WH WHY THEY FOUGHT SO HARD FOR A UNTRY THAT NEVER FULLY VALUED THEM.“WE WANTED TO MAKE THE STORY ABOUT AIN AMERIN VIETNAM VETS,” LEE TOLD VANY FAIR. “AND WE WANTED TO CLU THE MIC OF ONE OF THE [GREATT] ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, MY OPN—MARV GAYE’S WHAT’S GOG ON.”THE 1971 ALBUM IS A THEMATIC MATCH FOR THE FILM. ALTHOUGH GAYE DID NOT PERSONALLY SERVE VIETNAM, HE CRAFTED AS A KD OF NCEPT ALBUM OM THE POT OF VIEW OF A SOLDIER RETURNG TO UNRT AND UPHEAVAL BACK HOME. THERE WAS ALSO A FAY NNECTN. “MARV GAYE’S BROTHER, FRANKIE, DID THREE TOURS VIETNAM. HE WAS A RAD OPERATOR. AND HE WOULD WRE MARV ALL THE TIME, SO MARV WAS GETTG A FIRSTHAND ACUNT OM HIS BROTHER ABOUT THE HORRORS OF THE WAR,” LEE SAID. “THOSE LETTERS WERE REALLY THE IMPET OF ONE OF THE GREATT ALBUMS OF ALL TIME, SO I WANTED TO CLU MARV’S SONGS.”THAT BACKSTORY ADDS ANOTHER LAYER TO THE LYRIC, “BROTHER, BROTHER, BROTHER/ THERE’S FAR TOO MANY OF YOU DYG...”RATHER THAN PLAY THE CLASSIC RERDG DURG THE FILM’S TENSE CLIMAX, LEE CID TO E A LTLE-KNOWN A PPELLA VERSN. FTGLY, WAS TRODUCED TO LEE BY HIS YOUNGER BROTHER. “YEAH, NO ONE’S HEARD ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ SUNG LIKE THAT,” THE FILMMAKER SAID. “MY BROTHER CQUé [LEE] FOUND THAT ON THE TER.” IT’S PRENTED THE FILM WH ONLY SOME SLIGHT ENGEERG. “ORIGALLY, YOU HEAR A LTLE BLEED-THROUGH, THROUGH MARV’S HEADPHON, BUT WE TOOK THAT OUT. WE GOT THAT OUT,” LEE SAID.SPIKE LEE BEHD THE SCEN WH (OM LEFT) PETERS, LDO, MAJORS, AND LEWIS.ALL CREDS: BY DAVID LEE/NETFLIX.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONTHERE’S ANOTHER TRAGIC PARALLEL TO NSIR. GAYE WAS KILLED APRIL 1984 AFTER GETTG THE MIDDLE OF AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN HIS MOTHER AND FATHER. DURG THE ALTERTN, HIS FATHER—MARV GAY SR.— SHOT HIS SON THE CHT, KILLG THE SGER STANTLY.DA 5 BLOODS ALSO FEATUR A HOSTILE AND AT TIM VLENT RELATNSHIP BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON, WH DELROY LDO GENERATG OSR TALK FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS PL—A BATIVE, STUBBORN, AND CREASGLY VOLATILE OLD-TIMER WHO HAS EXPLOSIVE CLASH WH HIS GROWN SON (JONATHAN MAJORS), WHO HAS JOED THE TRIP ONLY TO HELP KEEP HIS FATHER SAFE.LDO’S CHARACTER HASN’T BEEN VIETNAM FOR MORE THAN FOUR S, BUT HE HAS NEVER STOPPED FIGHTG—WH HIS FAY, WH HIMSELF, AND EVEN WH HIS OWN PEOPLE. HIS OLD IENDS ARE SHOCKED (AND FEEL MORE THAN A LTLE BETRAYED) WHEN THEY LEARN HE HAS BEE A SUPPORTER OF DONALD TMP. AS LEE PUTS : “PL IS A MAGA-HAT-WEARG MOTHERFUCKER.”THE PEACEFUL, TELLECTUAL, AND EMOTNAL FLOW OF GAYE’S MIC IS A NTRAST TO THE RAGG SEA SI PL. “IT WORKS FOR THE SCENE BEE MARV GAYE, AND THAT SONG ‘WHAT’S GOG ON,’ IS A PLEA FOR HUMANY, A PLEA FOR LOVE, KDNS. AND THAT’S SOMETHG THAT DELROY’S CHARACTER DON’T HAVE,” LEE SAID. “HE NEVER ME BACK RIGHT. DELROY’S CHARACTER IS A TRAGIC CHARACTER. HE’S TWISTED, HE HAS MONS. YOU KNOW THAT SAYG, ‘IF I DIDN’T HAVE BAD LUCK, I WOULDN’T HAVE ANY LUCK AT ALL’?”COCINTALLY, THAT’S ACTUALLY A LE OM 1954’S “BAD LUCK BLU” BY LIGHTN’ SLIM.THERE’S ONE MORE MIL REFERENCE DA 5 BLOODS THAT ISN’T NNECTED TO GAYE, BUT ALSO HAS S ROOTS MOTOWN. THE HT: LDO PLAYS PL, MAJORS PLAYS HIS SON DAVID, CLARKE PETERS PLAYS OTIS, ISIAH WHLOCK JR. IS MELV, AND NORM LEWIS IS EDDIE.“NO ONE’S EVER YOU WILL NOW,” LEE SAID. “ALL THE CHARACTER’S NAM, THOSE ARE THE FIVE GUYS OM THE ORIGAL TEMPTATNS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— “CAN WE LIVE?” THE DGHTER OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ON THE QUTN THAT’S HNTED HER FOR DES— CATHERE O’HARA, QUEEN OF SCHT’S CREEK, TALKS GILDA RADNER FRIENDSHIP & MORE— EXCLIVE: STEPHEN KG’S THE STAND COM TO LIFE AGA— JEFEY EPSTE: SEVEN REMAG MYSTERI—AND DISTURBG REVELATNS— OLD HOLLYWOOD’S MOST SNDALO SECRETS, AS TOLD BY DAVID NIVEN— TREVOR NOAH AND THE DAILY SHOW AREN’T JT SURVIVG—THEY’RE THRIVG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: SIDNEY POIER’S POTED MSAGE TO WHE AMERI AS RACE RTS SWEPT THE NATN THE SUMMER OF 1967LOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.ANTHONY BREZNIN
In his recently released memoir Let Love Rule, Kravz wr about learng of Gaye’s murr. “When I later learned that Marv Gaye Sr. Playg Marv Gaye is a wonrful opportuny but [long pse] I’m jt tryg to do my thg.
Has acquired Marv Gaye bpic “What’s Gog On, ” Variety has nfirmed. After a number of tri to adapt Gaye’s story for the big screen, Warner Bros.