Miles - The Movie

Hollywood does not have a very good track record when it comes to dramatizing the lives of black American icons.

Not only was that watered down version of "Ali" starring Will Smith a poor knock off of the "When We Were Kings" documentary, it came no where near capturing the spiritual phenomena which was Mohammad Ali.

I pray the complex and rich genius of Miles is not reduced to a Lifetime Channel soap opera that can't get beyond drug addiction and spousal abuse.

Don Cheadle Eyed
For Miles Davis Movie

Actor Don Cheadle is being eyed to star as jazz legend Miles Davis in a biographical film, members of Davis' family said backstage after he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.

"It could touch on many things [like] the way he changed music in different decades," said Davis' nephew, Vince Wilburn. "From Bird to bebop to hip-hop and in between."

Wilburn said the family has also been in talks with director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day") about helming the film, but added, "First of all we have to get a script."


Davis, who would have turned 80 on May 26, will be celebrated this spring via as-yet-unannounced archival CD releases via Sony's Legacy imprint as well as several DVD projects, including highlights from his many performances at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival.


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Miles Davis Playboy Interview 1962
http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/Miles.html