James’ next pick: The VH1 original movie Man in the Mirror: a biopic about the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. I say “sort of” because the film did not have the rights to any of Jackson’s music.
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The average person would be primed, after three musicals in a row, for James to have continued on that track. And arguably he did, with Kenneth Anger’s short film Mouse Heaven.
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Song Sung Blue is hardly lacking in biopic cliches, but shows real juice with its tortuous reversals of fortune and hard-won working-class sentiment.
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