Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo could kick up his boots like a pro. During a 1951 peace meeting on the Haitian border, El Jefe grabbed the daughter of one of his officers and, as a ceremonial band bore down on a merengue beat, danced away the next hour. His countrymen could also call the tune to advantage, however. After Trujillo's 1961 assassination, Dominicans danced for months to The Death of the Goat, an irreverent merengue written to celebrate the general's violent removal...
...wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master in a smoky nightclub. For the French, love is l'amour fou. Francis is wise enough to love Turner and mad enough to let this parasitic devotion rule his life...
...jazz played by such stalwarts as Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins and Wayne Shorter). He is pleased to swap solos and memories with an old-flame vocalist (the wondrous Lonette McKee) whose love still shines in her eyes. He swears off alcohol and becomes an odd-couple chum of Francis' daughter's; he even attends the girl's birthday party with Francis' parents in Normandy. Still, Turner will always be a foreigner everywhere but inside his music. Paris may be a "very pretty town," but "happiness is a warm, wet Rico reed." The man has to go home...
...NEXT hour and a half, 'night, Mother reproduces Marsha Norman's minutely choreographed jockeying between mother and daughter, the former trying to persuade the latter to abandon her ghoulish intention and the latter holding fast to her position...
Running the gamut from emotional to logical to sneaky and underhanded, Thelma's efforts to keep her daughter alive move lickety split across the screen and will leave you gasping for breath. In one sequence, she goes from resignedly making Jessie a cup of cocoa--a pitiful last request--to throwing the pot across the kitchen in disgust at Jessie's unwillingness to salvage her own life...