Earlier this week, A24 announced that the highly-anticipated Ronnie Spector biopic, starring Zendaya, will be directed by Barry Jenkins. The film, titled Be My Baby (of course), is based on Spector’s 1990 memoir Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or, My Life as a Fabulous Ronette. …
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A24 has tapped Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins to direct Be My Baby, the Zendaya-starring biopic of singer Ronnie Spector. The film has been in development since 2020, with Spector originally onboard as an executive producer before her death in 2022. Spector personally selected Zendaya to portray her in the film, …
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Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-Z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy …
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In the weeks before her death at the age of 78, Ronnie Spector finalized the newly revised Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, her acclaimed memoir originally released in 1990. She died of cancer in January. Now, as the 2022 edition arrives on May 3, an …
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After years of performing around New York City, the Ronettes exploded in 1963 behind “Be My Baby,” a modern standard beloved by the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and pretty much everyone else with ears and a heart. During the recording of the song in Los Angeles, “All the musicians dropped …
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Sixty years ago, Ronnie Spector and Darlene Lovewerethereigning queens of New York pop. Both commandeered the charts (with theRonettes and initially the Crystals,respectively), both had gloriously strong, emotive voices, and both were produced by the late Phil Spector. Overtime, they each broke with Spector and, despite some creative lulls,carried on. …
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