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sansradio
Just got settled and gave your musings some critical thinking. Here are my takes:
1) Motown Productions was still not taken seriously by the Hollywood powers-that-be; they wouldn't merit serious critical accolades [[Lady Sings the Blues notwithstanding) until Lonesome Dove in the '90s.
2) BG was in direct competition with producers like David Wolper, so a collaborative production would have been highly unlikely.
3) Motown, at its core, always had an aspirational, no-looking-back ethos; a miniseries about slavery may well have been anathema to BG and company.
4) As far as the score was concerned, that was always going to be Quincy's baby. Q was the golden child/Hollywood insider. Besides, no one on Motown's roster could have delivered music with a fraction of the neo-classical gravitas and motherland Sturm und Drang that Quincy more than delivered for this project, IMO--no, not even Stevie or Marvin.
What say you?
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