Biographic - Sunday May 19, 2019 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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The oscar-winningRAY success of such biopics as "RAY" "walk the line: and the recent blockbuster "Bohemian Rhapsody: Has shown that there is endless fascination with the life stores of the legends of Rock, Soul and country music, While the likes of 2002's "24 Hour party people: have focused on such lesser lights as Joy Divison and Happy Mondays, The majority of rock biopics ave centered on megastars Beatles, Tv biopics abound and the bands formative days in Hamburg inspired 1994s well-recived movie "backbeat: The group's early days also inspired the 2009 movie "nowhere boy" Scores of actors have portrayed Elvis Presley, ranging from Kurt Russell and Don Johnson to "Tudors" star Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the 2005 Tv miniseries "Elvis: white stripes" rocker Jack white spoofed the KInf in the 2001 COmedy "walk hard L the Dewey Cox story" Music biopics have ling been a staple of the screen, going back to the likes of such post-war Oscar - winners as "The johnson story: and 1954 "The Glen Miller story: starring James Stweart as the ill-fated bandleader. Gary Busey shot to fame with hos oscar-nominated role in 1978s "The buddy holly story: The tale of the rocks & Roll pioneer who, like Miller met hos end in an air tragedy, The 1980s brought Sissy Spacek portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn in "Coal Moners daughter" Sid and Nacy starred Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious of the sex pistols, Dennis Quaid played rocker Jerry Lee Lewis in "Great Balls of Fire: and Lou Diamond Phillips starred in "La Bamba" as Latino teen pop star Ritchie Valens who perished in the same air crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. 1991s "the doors: cast Val Kilmer as frontman Jim Morrison and two years later, Angela Bassett earned awards as Tina Turner in "What's love got to do with it" 1997's Selena was a breakthrough role that earned Jennifer Lopez a golden globe, In 2004, "Selena; was a breakthrough role that earned Jennifer Lopez a golden globe. In 2004, Kevin Spacey played Bobby Darin in "Beyond the sea" Two movies, 2002s 24-hour party people and 2007s "Control: focused on Joy Division and Factory records. Jamie Foxx earned adn Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in "ray: Joaquin Phoenix starred as Johnny Cash in "walk the line" which saw Reese Witherspoon win an oscar for her June Carter role. Six actors portrayed characters inspired by Bob Dylan in 2007 IM not there including Cate Blanchett! The 2009 movie “notorious” traced the short life of rapper Biggie Smalls, Kristen Staewrt starred as Joan Jett in 2010s “The Runaways, Rolling Stone Brian Jones, Beach boy Brain Wilson, Morrisey and Ian Dury have all been the subject of biopics. Chadwick Boseman portrayed James Brown in “get on up” and Andre Benjamin played Hendrix in “Jimi:L all is by my side: Now hot on the heels of “Bohemian Rhapsody” The Freddie Mercury and Queen biopic that has broken all box office records comes “Rocketman: The story of rock legend Elton John.

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