Jeremy Jordan may bring more of an “I’m too sexy” aura than the role called for, but he’s a good actor who nails Bogart’s manipulative savoir faire and his hyper-intelligent brashness.…
, the upstart ’70s music-industry mogul who founded Casablanca Records, there’s a pivotal moment that spins around the story of how Bogart, at a party he was throwing, played the 3-minute-and-20-second single version of Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby.” He played it over and over again because his guests kept asking for it. That’s when the lightbulb went on. Bogart realized that the song needed to be longer, much longer — long enough to have sex to. This is a rather famous anecdote .
Bogart, in his chipmunk way, was a curly-haired nerd, but Jeremy Jordan, the Broadway actor who plays him, is suave and willowy, like Chris Pine’s little brother. This scene, which never actually happened, is a touch ridiculous, because “Love to Love You Baby” already had that something extra , and also because the movie comes close to saying that Bogart was the song’s actual lover-man auteur.
Bogart had an awesome faith in his artists, notably Kiss, the band that turned heavy metal into a down-and-dirty spectacle of lusty carnival teenage fantasy, and Donna Summer, whose ecstatic virtuosity fueled the disco revolution.
We go into “Spinning Gold” expecting a Casablanca Records docudrama to be a whirlwind tale of success and excess. The excess is there, at least in token form, when Bogart dips into a vial of cocaine given to him at a party by the newly signed George Clinton , who asks for a million dollars .
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