The Miles Davis Movie: The Betty Year
“If Betty were singing today she be something like Madonna, something like Prince, only as a woman. She was the beginning of all that when she was singing as Betty Davis.” ~ Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography I’m wondering if Betty (Mabry) Davis will make an appearance in the Miles Davis biopic… Let the casting [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Should Don Cheadle Be Working On This Pose?
It’s a legitimate question. No denying it’s a classic and unforgettable shot of Miles Davis; the leg slung over the folding chair, the chinos, the cigarette in hand – the contemplation of Lord knows what. So while Cheadle might be tied up these days portraying Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes / War Machine, hopefully he has [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: What Would Miles Think?
I think if Miles Davis were living today the Miles Davis biopic would have already been made. It might not have starred Don Cheadle, but I believe the project would have been pushed through with the help of a big-time producer or director. At what point the idea for a biopic was dreamed up I [...]
Miles Davis, Still Legendary After All These Years
John Bungey of Times Online poses a good question for discussion: Why is Miles Davis so legendary? …why, 18 years on, does the world still care? Miles’s celebrated urge to keep moving — to play music that was one minute beguiling, the next baffling (“It’s my curse”) is one reason. There are albums, such as [...]
Miles Davis / In Suits
Our friend Christian Chensvold at the always top-shelf Ivy-Style takes a fashionable look at the two, glorious decades Miles Davis chose suits as his favored accoutrement. Before things got weird. Chensvold’s excellent article actually appears in the latest issue of the Singapore-based menswear magazine The Rake; the article’s print layout can be seen online here, [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Will It Launch Don Cheadle To Superstardom?
Some people are meant to be stars. Tom Cruise? The guy was seemingly born famous. Julia Roberts? Ditto. But there are also really talented folks who deserve to be stars but just can’t quite make the leap. And so begins the lighthearted Almost famous: 10 who should be big stars, an easy-reading pictorial from Bill [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: PG-13 or Rated R?
No biopic of Miles Davis, be it traditional narrative or off the wall bizarre, is going to be genuine without a great deal of bad language. The man could turn a phrase, as it were. Flip through a few pages of his entertaining autobiography (here’s page 65!) and it’s clear Miles Davis had a talent [...]
