When Houston moved out of her family home, she shared her first apartment with Crawford.īroomfield’s film contains footage that suggests that, deep into Houston and Brown’s 14-year marriage, Crawford remained a fixture in Houston’s domestic arrangements. When Houston's modelling career began to take off, she'd face bullying in school, and Crawford, who was originally a friend of Houston's older brothers Michael and Gary, would frequently come to the rescue. Houston and Crawford first bonded while they were teenagers working at a community centre in East Orange, New Jersey. She was all right, she turned out to be all right, I guess. “She just spoke too much, disrespectful sometimes, like she had something over Nippy (Houston’s nickname), and I didn’t like that at all. “I didn’t particularly like ,” Cissy told the talk show queen.
"You wouldn't have condoned it?" continued an incredulous Oprah. In the matriarch's 2013 book, Remembering Whitney, she wrote of her dislike for Crawford, prompting Oprah to ask: "Would it have bothered you if your daughter was gay?" "Absolutely," Cissy snapped back. Broomfield's film includes extracts from Cissy's notorious 2013 interview with Oprah. Houston's reticence is, sadly, understandable. “She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.” “I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Brown told the magazine. South African president Nelson Mandela and Whitney Houston smile for photographers in Johannesburg on November 10th, 1994. He went on to say that Houston kept her relationship with Crawford hidden because of Cissy. Last year, Brown told Us Weekly magazine that Houston was bisexual and that she once had an affair with Tupac Shakur. The footage proves a treasure trove, particularly in terms of the imploding relations between Houston, Brown and Crawford. She’s belting it out.” Imploding relationsĭolezal's film – Whitney: Close Up – was scheduled to premiere on television in spring of 2000, before it was cancelled and shelved. But she’s still giving it more than you’ll see anyone else give. “She’s this completely passionate, unbelievable performer even during some of those late performances. “The live performances are so much more compelling than her records because she put so much gospel in it,” says Broomfield. "And I'm watching the muscles in her back expand. "I'm playing behind her," recalls drummer Michael Baker. These live performances, even with a voice that is already damaged by drug use, are quite something to behold. Dolzezal, who receives a co-director credit on Can I Be Me is a music tour veteran who has shot The Rolling Stones, Queen, Miles Davis and Michael Jackson. The new film will finally allow diehard fans to see extensive archive material shot by German director Rudi Dolezal for an unfinished documentary about the singer's 1999 My Love is Your Love tour. She's this completely passionate, unbelievable performer even during some of those late performances. But you couldn’t help but fall for Whitney. There have only been a couple of people who have really made me feel that way. We were really choked up at the end of the edit, when we screened the film for ourselves. Which is pretty much how I’ve always worked. “I didn’t know that much going in,” says Broomfield. Whitney Houston performing on stage during the World Music Awards at the Thomas and Mack Centre on September 15th, 2004, in Las Vegas, Nevada. In an early episode of Channel 4's The Word, when presenter Terry Christian asks her a cheeky question about a rumoured romance with Eddie Murphy, Houston beams and parrots his words back in a perfect Mancunian accent: "Rung me up?" Later, on the European leg of her 1999 tour, she lightly teases her husband, Bobby Brown, with a backstage rendition of his 1998 hit, My Prerogative. Sure enough, she emerges as wildly entertaining company. But her story was so powerful that I was made redundant.” Archive footageīroomfield says he and his editor Marc Hoeferlin "fell in love with Whitney" while they pored over more than a hundred hours of archive footage. I had some shots with me in them for Whitney.
And then everyone wants you to do what you did last. “I remember the first time I put myself in a film,” recalls Broomfield. Can I Be Me required an entirely different methodology. The director has previously door-stepped various parties to create the conspiratorial music docs, Kurt & Courtney (1998) and Biggie & Tupac (2002). Photograph: Frank Mullen/WireImageīroomfield's iconic gonzo-style – feigned bumbling, boom mic in the shot – has been parodied by The Simpsons and taken up by such film-makers as Louis Theroux and Morgan Spurlock. Whitney Houston with her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown and husband Bobby Brown.
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