{"id":413727,"date":"2022-03-09T05:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T02:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-dionne-warwick-dont-make-me-over-review-a-solid-documentary\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T05:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T02:40:52","slug":"watch-dionne-warwick-dont-make-me-over-review-a-solid-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dionne-warwick-dont-make-me-over-review-a-solid-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Dionne Warwick: Don&#8217;t Make Me Over&#8217; Review: A Solid Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40e6034be4f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40e6034be4f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dionne-warwick-dont-make-me-over-review-a-solid-documentary\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Dionne_Warwick_Dont_Make_Me_Over_Review_A_Solid_Documentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Dionne Warwick: Don&#8217;t Make Me Over&#8217; Review: A Solid Documentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dionne-warwick-dont-make-me-over-review-a-solid-documentary\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Dionne_Warwick_Dont_Make_Me_Over_Review_A_Solid_Documentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Dionne Warwick: Don&#8217;t Make Me Over&#8217; Review: A Solid Documentary&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Dionne_Warwick_Dont_Make_Me_Over_Review_A_Solid_Documentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Dionne Warwick: Don&#8217;t Make Me Over&#8217; Review: A Solid Documentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Dionne_Warwick_Dont_Make_Me_Over_Review_A_Solid_Documentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Dionne Warwick: Don&#8217;t Make Me Over&#8217; Review: A Solid Documentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Every great singer has her own signature, and Dionne Warwick\u2019s, in her defining period in the \u201960s and \u201970s, was the gorgeous wavery ethereal <em>slowness<\/em> of her vibrato. It allowed her to hit a note, sustain it with that beautiful wide tremolo, and invest it with a yearning that was pure enough to pierce you. You can hear it in her very first recording, \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Over,\u201d which is the first record she made of a song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, or in her first <em>sublime<\/em> recording, \u201cAnyone Who Had a Heart\u201d (1963), where she sings a line like \u201cAnyone who had a heart, could look at me,\/And know that I <em>lov-v-v-e<\/em> <em>you\u2026,<\/em>\u201d the last two words ringing out like bells, tied to each other by a curlicue of emotion. Warwick didn\u2019t just sing the notes \u2014 she lofted them into the air, so that they floated into your heart.<\/p>\n<p>In the new documentary \u201cDionne Warwick: Don\u2019t Make Me Over,\u201d Burt Bacharach, now 93, says, \u201cDionne had this huge range,\u201d meaning not just her ability to leap octaves but her vast emotional scope. \u201cShe\u2019s very delicate, and then she\u2019s very explosive. Very unusual to have a singer who can do\u2026<em>that<\/em>.\u201d That wistful warble of Warwick\u2019s was ideal for ballads (she could crest and soar like nobody\u2019s business), but it worked just as incandescently in up-tempo pop songs, like the way she\u2019d sing <em>\u201cDo you know the way to San Jose\u2026\u201d <\/em>and give the <em>\u201cSan\u201d\u00a0<\/em>a little push, a little vibratory flutter that allowed her to express hope and loss, h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>iness and sadness in the same beat.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid and \u201cDo You Know the Way to San Jose\u201d came on the radio, I\u2019d be spellbound by the <em>mix<\/em> of feeling in it \u2014 the late-afternoon melancholy that was also, somehow, a kind of magic-hour contentment. Warwick made going back to San Jose sound like a return to paradise, yet a return suffused with loss, with her retreat from the big city <em>(\u201cL.A. is a great big freeway\u2026\u201d<\/em>). And that slow vibrato was so distinctly lovely, so completely and utterly <em>her<\/em> that I believed in my grade-school soul the experience she was singing about was actually happening to her. She turned songs like \u201cDo You Know the Way\u2026\u201d or \u201cI Say a Little Prayer\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ll Never Fall in Love Again\u201d into luminous pop confessions of middle-class rapture and heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Over,\u201d directed by David Heilbroner and Dave Wooley, is a relatively simple and basic documentary. It\u2019s 90 minutes long, and it sits down with Warwick \u2014 sharp and spiky at 81, with a short dyed coif that\u2019s the essence of elegance \u2014 and invites her to sift through her memories. It touches on her childhood growing up in an integrated neighborhood of East Orange, New Jersey (we see a startling grainy black-and-white clip of her singing lead in a gospel choir when she was 21), and on the launch of her career at the Apollo Theater, where she followed in the footsteps of artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday by performing on Amateur Night.<\/p>\n<p>The movie relates, in an engaging if somewhat glancing fashion, the story of most of her hit songs, and it interviews figures from Bacharach and Clive Davis and Smokey Robinson to Carlos Santana and Valerie Simpson to Elton John and Stevie Wonder to Alicia Keys and Bill Clinton and Snoop Dogg, all of whom testify to the singular glory of Warwick\u2019s expressive gift and to all the racial-cultural barriers she broke down, mostly by vaulting over them. We also get a summary of her personal life \u2014 youthful marriage, Mexican divorce, remarriage for 12 years, two sons \u2014 in about three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving an artist\u2019s private life offscreen can work in a documentary, but it can also rob the film of spice, and to a degree that happens here. As a piece of archival biography, \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Over\u201d is serviceable rather than inspired, a kind of soft-edged memoir that takes a once-over-lightly skim through Warwick\u2019s life and career. I wish it dove deeper into the musical synergy between Warwick and Bacharach and David, giving us a more detailed, lived-in sense of how those miraculous songs were created and recorded. Yet Warwick, as a singer, had such a spectacular run that just seeing it all play out, and watching the clips that have been assembled of her spellbinding performances on stage and on television, is more than satisfying, especially because the movie truly understands what a transformational figure she was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Over\u201d deals quite insightfully with how Dionne Warwick fitted into, and changed, the racial landscape of American entertainment. In Europe, she was initially \u2014 outrageously \u2014 represented on the cover of an album by the image of a sexy white girl. When she walked on stage at the Olympia in Paris, the audience was shocked. She tells the story of touring the Jim Crow South in the early \u201960s with Sam Cooke and others, a situation she had so little tolerance for that her periodic lashing out about it could rival Nina Simone\u2019s. In a concert hall that put whites on one side of the stage and Blacks on the other, Cooke told her never to turn her back on the white audience. She responded by going out on stage and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely doing the opposite of what he said.<\/p>\n<p>Returning from Europe, she was welcomed in the States, and doors opened up for her, as she appeared on \u201cEd Sullivan\u201d and a slew of variety shows hosted by Perry Como, Red Skelton, Dinah Shore, and others. She became the first solo Black woman artist to win a Grammy. Yet even as she grew iconic, she felt like she was in a bubble (she was just about the only Black music star being invited into that spotlight). On top of that, she was hit with the kind of accusatory racial crosswinds that would buffet her first cousin, Whitney Houston, several decades later, with some members of the Black community complaining that Warwick was a \u201csellout.\u201d As she tells it, \u201cThe music I was singing was nothing like anything that <em>any<\/em> of them were singing, Black or white. So they really didn\u2019t know what to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warwick turned into a global groundbreaker of crossover: not just in terms of the demographics of her fans, but in the way she fought the system of musical-racial categories by transcending them. She was a pop singer who infused songs with a unique soul. We see a stunning clip of her on television singing \u201cI Say a Little Prayer,\u201d which allows us to drink in the electricity of her presence: the regal cheekbones, the movie-star overbite that was so unique, the delicate plaintive power of her voice. There is no more romantic line in the history of pop music than the way she sings \u201cI say a little prayer for <em>you<\/em>\u2026,\u201d because you feel she\u2019s truly singing it to <em>someone<\/em>, the glory of her voice invested in the other. To watch this documentary is to return to a moment when devotion could still declare itself from the rooftops.<\/p>\n<p>The story doesn\u2019t end there, of course. \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Over\u201d covers Warwick\u2019s spectacular comeback in the late \u201970s, which was engineered by Clive Davis, and includes the way that she initially balked at recording what is arguably her greatest song of that period, \u201cHeartbreaker,\u201d written expressly for her by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. (She had balked, in a similar way, at \u201cDo You Know the Way to San Jose.\u201d) The movie devotes a lengthy section to how Warwick became one of the first AIDS activists, speaking out about the epidemic when no one in the music industry would, spearheading the recording of \u201cThat\u2019s What Friends Are For\u201d (a song that generated many millions of dollars for that cause) and even prompting Ronald Reagan, on stage, to publicly say the word \u201cAIDS\u201d for the first time. It also deals with her antipathy to the misogyny of gangsta rap, and there\u2019s a great story, told by Snoop Dogg, about how she invited him, Suge Knight, and Tupac Shakur over to her home to have a powwow about it. Snoop claims that the meeting influenced his lyrics from that point on.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Over,\u201d various people are asked what their favorite Dionne Warwick song is, and that\u2019s a natural question, since there was so much love in her music that you almost can\u2019t help but think, \u201cWhich of those songs do I love most?\u201d Burt Bacharach is arguably one of the 10 greatest composers of the 20th century, and the synergy of his melodies, Hal David\u2019s lyrics (which Warwick calls poetry), and Warwick\u2019s voice produced songs that were three-minute cantos of pop magic. In a way, Dionne Warwick is one of those artists where your favorite song of hers is probably the one you happen to be listening to. The melancholy defiant lilt of \u201cWalk On By,\u201d the yearning of \u201cAnyone Who Had a Heart\u201d \u2014 in the film, Elton John is not exaggerating when he says, \u201cThey are just perfect works of art. They were a bit like Picassos.\u201d Forced to choose, I myself would cite two Warwick songs: \u201cI Say a Little Prayer,\u201d probably the most heavenly song Bacharach ever wrote, and \u201cWhat the World Needs Now,\u201d which Warwick performs with an adoration that makes it the most exalted of anthems. The song\u2019s message, that love is \u201cthe only thing\u2026that there\u2019s just too little of,\u201d is a plea that risks na\u00efvet\u00e9. 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