Today’s movie is a biographical drama with a scene that
happens on March 12. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
BIRD
Charlie Parker develops into a
jazz superstar and innovator, the creator of bebop, but is haunted by addiction
to heroin. He was paired often with
Dizzy Gillespie, another jazz great. Charlie Parker had two children with Chan
Parker. Charlie considered himself married to Chan even though they never went
through any kind of marriage ceremony. Charlie was terribly upset by his young
daughters death from cystic fibrois. Charlie was committed several times for
detox to try and lick his heron addiction. He dies of a heart attack on March
12, 1955 [2:16:05 to 2:34:20] at the age of only 34.
Jazz: A History of America’s Music by Geoffrey C.
Ward (Alfred A. Knopf, New
York, 2000) p. 385 and in the film
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Director - Clint Eastwood
Producer - Clint Eastwood
Screenplay - Joel Oliansky
Awards – The film won the Oscar
for Best Sound at the 61st Academy Awards
Released - September 30, 1988
Runtime – 2 hours 41 minutes
Starring –
Forest Whitaker as Charlie
"Bird" Parker
Diane Venora as Chan Parker
Michael Zelniker as Red Rodney
Samuel E. Wright as Dizzy
Gillespie
Keith David as Buster Franklin
Diane Salinger as Pannonica de
Koenigswarter, Baroness Nica
Michael McGuire as Brewster
James Handy as Esteves
Damon Whitaker as Young Bird
Morgan Nagler as Kim
Arlen Dean Snyder as Dr Heath
Sam Robards as Moscowitz
Penelope Windust as Bellevue
Nurse
Glenn Wright as Alcoholic Patient
George Orrison as Patient with
Checkers
Bill Cobbs as Dr Caulfield
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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