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Charlie Bird Parker had been a hero of Clint Eastwood's since childhood, and Eastwood, having been disappointed in such jazz biopics as YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, really wanted to make a true jazz fan's movie about the music. He cast Forest Whitaker as Parker, the legendary alto sax player, and Diane Venora as Chan, Parker's wife. .. Read more

Starring	Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker
Director	Clint Eastwood
Genres	Drama, Music/Musical

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A big, hulking actor with a lazy eye, Forest Whitaker has always been a very physical actor - when you think of his performances, you think of how he carries himself. The way he seemed to pour himself into the saxophone in Clint Eastwood's Charlie Parker biopic, Bird, for example; or his solitary grace in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; or the way he bigs it up to out-hustle Paul Newman in The Color of Money. In The Last King of Scotland Whitaker plays Idi Amin, the former British army... Read more

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