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James Brown Biopic on HBO tonight

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown Director:  Alex Gibney Runtime:  120 minutes Rating: TV-14 Cast : Mick Jagger, Bobby Byrd, Clyde Stubblefield INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR ON NPR James Brown On Film: An Admiring And Unflinching Look At 'Mr. Dynamite' by  ERIC DEGGANS http://www.npr.org/2014/10/24/358471568/an-admiring-and-unflinching-look-at-mr-dynamite _________________________________________________________________________ Alex Gibney’s  Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown  is an assured threading-of-the-needle, slowly working its way to the sweet spot where the man and the legend overlap. Gibney is the ideal director for a Brown documentary, with a resume including his journey into a luminary’s heart of darkness in 2013’s  The Armstrong Lie   as well as this year’s  Finding Fela , Gibney’s portrait of Afrobeat visionary Fela Kuti, whose loving interpretation of Brown’s stage shows fostered mutual admiration and ...