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In Seattle, Jack Baker (Jeff Bridges) leaves his latest one-night stand in her bed. “You’ve got great hands,” she tells him on his way out. Jack dusts off his tux and shuffles to a gig at the Starfire Lounge. Performing a dual piano act with his partner of 31 years - his […]

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Bearded, overweight and sipping whiskey, Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) huddles in a studio in Paris, laying down a track of his poetry, alone. Moving back in time to Venice Beach, California in 1965, Morrison follows a woman who catches his eye back to her […]

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“Nothin’ but a bunch of jive and junk,” is how a “gateway hustler” named DJay (Terrence Howard) sizes up FM radio in Memphis as he drives through the city with Nola (Taryn Manning), a wide-eyed white girl employed as his top moneymaker. Selling an […]

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On August 20, 1972, Memphis-based Stax Records organized a concert at the L.A. Coliseum to benefit the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation and Martin Luther King Hospital in Watts. The event was to cap the annual Watts Summer Festival, observing the anniversary of […]

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