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Bird

Movie (1988)

Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

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Released:	Sep 30th, 1988
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Bird Main Cast

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Forest Whitaker
plays Charlie 'Bird' Parker

Diane Venora
plays Chan Parker

Michael Zelniker
plays Red Rodney

Samuel E. Wright
plays Dizzy Gillespie

Keith David
plays Buster Franklin

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Keith David and Forest Whitaker had previously co-starred in Platoon.
Though the actual saxophone playing is original Charlie Parker performances, the body and fingering during those are performed by Charles McPherson, who had to learn to breathe exactly like Parker did in the recordings.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bird is reciting the telegram to be sent to Chan, and we see the telegram being printed as he speaks, he says "Forgive me for not being in the hospital with you," but the telegram reads "Forgive me for not being there with you while you were at the hospital."
Clint Eastwood approached Chan Richardson, Charlie Parker's common-law wife on whose memoirs the script was based, for input. She gave Eastwood a collection of lost recordings unlocked from a bank vault.

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