Will anyone ever get to see that Aretha Franklin decades-in-the-making documentary, "Amazing Grace"? Increasingly, the answer looks to be, not likely.
Yesterday, Tambay reported in detail (see post below this one) the complicated and confusing story about the film made by the late great film director, Sydney Pollack, of the legendary Franklin 1972 gospel concert at the Los Angeles Missionary Baptist Church, which, after literally 4 decades in an uncompleted state, was finally edited and finished and set to premiere at the Telluride Film festival last week.
Well that was until Franklin had an injunction issued by a Federal Court in Colorado to stop the screening of the film,…
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