Aretha Franklin documentary has premiere at South Los Angeles church where it was filmed
"We're at the holiest of holies, right here at the epicenter of where it actually happened," the film's producer said.Raymond Boyd / Getty Images fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
On top of all that, said L.A. County supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas,"We're going to put in an application to have the Southern California Community Choir [which accompanies Franklin on record and film] designated on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with their own star. ... We're gonna do the historical designation and then we're gonna do the walk of fame.
For producer Alan Elliott, who bought the uncompleted film reels from Warner Bros. and shepherded the project for more than a decade, and two producers who came on to the movie later, Sabrina Owens, Franklin's niece and estate executor, and Tirrell Whittley, it was a homecoming to a home they had only previously seen through hundreds or thousands and thousands of hours of looking at the '72 footage.
For many of a certain age and spiritual inclination in the African-American community, the album"Amazing Grace" -- said to be the biggest selling black gospel album of all time, and Franklin's highest seller to this day -- was so important, it was as important to them as"Rumours,""Frampton Comes Alive" or even"Thriller" eventually were to anyone else. And that was decades before anyone ever realized there was an unseen film attached.
Later, at the pre-reception, there were gasps and even a shriek or two when Hussle's death was announced.
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