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Aretha Franklin is trying to block the release of “Amazing Grace,” the documentary film by the late Sydney Pollack on the making of her live gospel album of the same name. The Warner Bros. film has been sitting unseen for 39 years. Franklin’s attorney Alan Reed intends to seek an injunction preventing the film’s release, according to TMZ. Her camp says that the film’s producer Alan Elliott wants to release it this year and claims the soul diva’s permission is required before the film can be rolled out. No reason has been given for Franklin’s reluctance to have the film released. The double album, recorded at L.A.’s New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, is Franklin’s biggest selling album and the top selling gospel album of all time. Elliott is an accomplished film and TV composer and music exec, and stepbrother of producer-manager Benny Medina.
Although it wasn’t too glamorous, the evening was sure pumped with star power at Tuesday night’s screening of Andrew Young’s documentary “Change in the Wind.”
Atlantamagazine.com reports that the film chronicles the secret correspondence between Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell and Morehouse College president Benjamin Mays, and the unlikely friendship that developed between the Civil Rights crusading educator and the author of the novel glorifying the Old South and eventually led to Mitchell’s decision to (secretly again) sponsor Morehouse medical students.
Atlanta Daily World publisher Alexis Scott and other big timers perused the lobby filled with artifacts from the University of Georgia. Other big wigs who attended include Kasim Reed, broadcast journalist, Margaret Mitchell House & Museum founder Mary Rose Taylor, Jasmine Guy.