A documentary film about an early 70's Detroit, inner city musical poet. A real life Cinderella story. See it if you can. I'd love to read some opinions but to me it was a beautiful story of art, triumph, humility and grace. (I'm only commenting on the movie, I have yet to learn much about the artist)http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,914932#msg-914932Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:56 +1000 Phorum 5.2.16 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915320#msg-915320 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915320#msg-915320-------------------------------------------------------
> Ydde Wrote:
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> > there's a difference between making up facts
> and
> > not doing your homework.
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> Not sure how old you are, but if you think the
> producers at 60 minutes dont 'do their homework',
> you are still wet behind the ears. Some people
> just have to believe they have THE inside scoop.


hey wolfie, the intelligence train has passed me by but i am familiar with the saying 'dont lets the facts get in the way of a good story']]> Ydde NoticeboardSun, 14 Oct 2012 22:33:27 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915266#msg-915266 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915266#msg-915266
People love to shit on Cinderella stories. Me, I like to believe there's a pun-kin coach headed down the road to pick me up at any minute....lol

To further my point: I know my cd "the world is round" is being bootlegged and sold out of china. It's on Ebay. Not much I can do. Buuuuuuttt...if you told me I was huge in some city or province in china and was an inspiration to a group of dissidents or young folk fighting the government I would be shocked, amazed and honored. I wouldn't move to china though. It wouldn't be instant success anywhere else. I think it would make a fascinating story though. Which is all i said the movie was. As for the article by lefstetz...he also manipulated some facts, to be the contrarian. Sensationalization is part of the game. Just you tube an episode of "here comes honey boo boo." sensationalism = views.]]> Jimmy Lawrence NoticeboardSun, 14 Oct 2012 02:55:30 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915259#msg-915259 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915259#msg-915259-------------------------------------------------------
> there's a difference between making up facts and
> not doing your homework.

Not sure how old you are, but if you think the producers at 60 minutes dont 'do their homework', you are still wet behind the ears. Some people just have to believe they have THE inside scoop.]]> Doug Wolfgang NoticeboardSun, 14 Oct 2012 02:25:19 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915167#msg-915167 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915167#msg-915167 Ydde NoticeboardFri, 12 Oct 2012 20:12:59 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915155#msg-915155 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915155#msg-915155
I do take some issue with the dates on the bottom of the article you posted. Clearly the movie and the 60 minutes piece state that 1998 was when he played south Africa and clearly it was sometime before that when he found out that he was more successful than he imagined in a place that was very very far from his home. The dates in the bottom of the article are after that.

What he did after 1998 is not the story to me (to me, notice this is my opinion). It's what happened for the 25 years between 1973 and 1998 I found fascinating

Thanks for sending the counterpoint... JL]]> Jimmy Lawrence NoticeboardFri, 12 Oct 2012 14:54:22 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915100#msg-915100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915100#msg-915100 Doug Wolfgang NoticeboardFri, 12 Oct 2012 02:19:18 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915054#msg-915054 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,915054#msg-915054
fron the bob leftsetz blog

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2012/10/08/sugarman/]]> Ydde NoticeboardThu, 11 Oct 2012 19:12:53 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,914974#msg-914974 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,914974#msg-914974 Jimmy Lawrence NoticeboardThu, 11 Oct 2012 06:18:54 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,914948#msg-914948 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,914948#msg-914948 Doug Wolfgang NoticeboardThu, 11 Oct 2012 02:04:05 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,914932#msg-914932 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,914932,914932#msg-914932
A real life Cinderella story.

See it if you can.

I'd love to read some opinions but to me it was a beautiful story of art, triumph, humility and grace.

(I'm only commenting on the movie, I have yet to learn much about the artist)]]> Jimmy Lawrence NoticeboardThu, 11 Oct 2012 01:07:55 +1100