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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Song of the South by #HarveFoster and #WilfredJackson starring #JamesBaskett, "falters as entertainment even if you choose to take on the burden of its problematic racial politics"

BEST MUSIC 1990: Broadway legend STEPHEN SONDHEIM had already won prizes as impressive as the Pulitzer by the time Warren Beatty asked him to write the songs for his production of DICK TRACY and put him in the way of an Oscar. The three tunes that Sondheim composed for Madonna’s Breathless Mahoney are all delights, but the Academy only saw fit to nominate one (and the best one at that), “SOONER OR LATER (I ALWAYS GET MY MAN)” which the Queen of Pop performed on the Oscar telecast, visibly shaking from nerves thanks to a performance error. After weeks of rehearsal, during which she had a nearby auditorium outfitted with the same stage and sound as the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion when it wasn’t available for her to practice in, Madonna got to Oscar night and something I still haven’t understood about a trap door didn’t go properly thanks to a crew member in the rafters falling asleep on the job; she reportedly grabbed the P.A. who told her this unfortunate news by the collar and spun him around the room (though later insisted that the tired crew member not be fired). Her trembling during performance was interpreted by critics as her being terrified of impressing the Hollywood elite, but she was actually terrified of something else going wrong (her more recent stage fall was in her own words what happens the few times she does something she hasn’t rehearsed a million times). The performance went relatively well except for the added stress of a multi-million dollar earring from Harry Winston having slipped off her ear, precariously resting on her shoulder and barely held there by the lock of hair it had caught on (thankfully it never made it to the floor). After all that effort, how could the song not win! (Bon Jovi, Reba McEntire filling in for Meryl Streep and Harry Connick Jr had relatively easy experiences that night). This would be the first of two Oscar-winning songs that our Mo would sing, but none of the songs she wrote for movies have ever been nominated.

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