Word: ike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tina Turner is too sick to sing. Anemia has sapped the strength she needs to sell her raw-meat music. She can't go on. She must go on; Ike is there, all silky unspoken threat, to see that she fulfills her obligation to the man who found her, nursed her to stardom, gave her her name. He only wants her to sing the hit he has written for her, A Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling...
There are grislier scenes in What's Love Got to Do with It, the drama based on Turner's autobiography, I, Tina. Ike beating Tina. Ike kicking Tina. Ike choking Tina while he rapes her. Ike in the ambulance with Tina after her suicide attempt, whispering, "If you don't make it, I'll kill you." But none is more harrowing than the moment of Ike's killer kiss. It shows how tender a man's domination can seem and how a woman, prodded by terror and responsibility, can see no option except acceding to his abuse. The happy ending...
Directed by Brian Gibson and starring Angela Bassett as Tina and Laurence Fishburne as Ike, What's Love Got to Do with It is no movie masterpiece. The picture's canvas is so broad (40 years), and its depiction of Ike's brutality so encyclopedic, that it sometimes plays like a Greatest Hits package in which all the songs sound alike. But the film will be a crowd pleaser and a curative because Tina Turner has lent it the voltage of her star presence and the joltage of her awful, exemplary life. The concert stage was where she could release...
...launches an album of old and new songs and opens a 53-city U.S. tour to an ecstatic house in Reno, Nevada, Tina is in no hurry to see the film of her life. "Do you think I want to see Ike Turner hit somebody again?" she asks. "It's not enough that I was hit. Now I have to watch him hit somebody else? I don't need to see this movie, 'cause I saw it already. I lived...
Like many abused women, Turner was embarrassed by what she had endured. "No one knew," she says. "It was ugly. I was ashamed. Finally I wrote I, Tina to stop people from talking to me about Ike Turner." The book had a greater impact than she suspected. "People have said, 'You've inspired me. I've cleaned up my life.' Some dance-hall girls have gone back and become nurses. A man came up to me in the Atlanta airport and said, 'I want to tell you that I read your book, and I will never beat my wife again...