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Review: 'Cadillac Records'
rafer.guzman@newsday.com(3 1/2 STARS) (R) PLOT The story of Muddy Waters, Etta James and other icons of the pioneering Chess Records label. CAST Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Columbus Short LENGTH 1:48 PLAYING AT Area theaters BOTTOM LINE Fast, lively and...Tags: Music Industry, Muddy Waters, Adrien Brody, Music, Chuck Berry
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'Cadillac Records'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comOn the heels of "Ray" and "Walk the Line" comes another dramatization of the pre-rock era, "Cadillac Records." You may think you know what to expect: a bloated running time, history lessons disguised as dialogue and scene after scene of overemotive...Tags: Music Industry, Adrien Brody, Muddy Waters, House (movie), Music
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'Cadillac Records' offers quite a ride
In the 1950s and '60s, American Jews and blacks had two glorious, complex and sometimes-fractious partnerships: civil rights and recording rights. Writer-director Darnell Martin goes for the throat of this killer subject in the scintillating Cadillac...Tags: Muddy Waters, Adrien Brody, Cinema Industry, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon
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'Cadillac Records' stars Adrien Brody, Mos Def, Beyonce Knowles
Special to the TribuneFans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching "Cadillac Records"; the story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006's "Dreamgirls," in a montage set to "Steppin' to the Bad Side." There's the plucky upstart studio where...Tags: Sony Corp., Adrien Brody, Muddy Waters, Music Industry, Terence Blanchard
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'Cadillac Records' Reach For Rock's Origins Exceeds Grasp
Orlando SentinelBrilliantly cast and ambitious to beat the band, "Cadillac Records" is a little movie that aims big. It tries to capture nothing less than the moment when white culture embraced black music and rock 'n' roll was born. But even if the iPod Nation craves...Tags: Adrien Brody, Muddy Waters, Music Industry, History, The Rolling Stones
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Q-Tip exulting in his sound returning to radio
It's like he never left. The music of Q-Tip (New York native Jonathan Davis), and the cool-flow style he created with A Tribe Called Quest in the early '90s is back in vogue. Tribe and its rhythmically agile, verbally dexterous sound was drowned out...Tags: Folk Music, James Brown, Muhammad Ali, Music, Ol' Dirty Bastard
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Movie Review: Music biopic 'Cadillac Records' plays song you've heard countless times before
AP Movie CriticDarnell Martin could have made an entire movie about Muddy Waters. Or Etta James. Or Chuck Berry. Instead, the writer-director has made a movie about all of them with "Cadillac Records," cramming their complicated individual stories into the larger...Tags: Sony Corp., Muddy Waters, Adrien Brody, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon
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New Onscreen
The movies opening Friday include "Cadillac Records," which tells the story of Chess Records and features Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Beyoncé Knowles as Etta James and Mos Def as Chuck Berry. "Punisher: War Zone" keeps the body count high as a former...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Adrien Brody, Chuck Berry, Luxury Vehicles, Repo! The Genetic Opera (movie)
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Movie review: Cadillac Records -- 3 out of 5 stars
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticBrilliantly cast and ambitious to beat the band, Cadillac Records is a little movie that aims big. It tries to capture nothing less than the moment when white culture embraced black music and rock 'n' roll was born. But even if the iPod Nation craves...Tags: Adrien Brody, Music Industry, Muddy Waters, History, The Rolling Stones
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Review: Beyoncé, Mos Def in 'Cadillac Records' CD
Kevin.amorim@newsday.comAt last. With the "Cadillac Records" soundtrack we get to hear Beyoncé and Mos Def through the Wayback Machine. The story of Chess Records and the 1950s Chicago blues scene follows the legends who recorded for the label, including Etta James (Beyoncé),...Tags: Muddy Waters, Music, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon, Celebrity
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What's hot this week
MOVIES FROST/NIXON. Based on the hit play, which in turn was based on David Frost's 1977 interviews with the haunted president. Starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella. Opens Friday. (See story on p. C6.) PUNISHER: WAR ZONE. The return of the...Tags: Adrien Brody, David Frost, Classical Music, Music Theater, Christmas
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