Great Balls of Fire! Jerry Lee Lewis biopic strikes wrong note on scandal

Cheery film has great music but treatment of rock'n'roll singer's union with his young cousin makes for queasy viewingDirector: Jim McBrideEntertainment grade: D–History grade: C+Jerry Lee Lewis broke through as a rock'n'roll musician in the late 1950s. His career foundered after he bigamously married Myra Gale Brown, his first cousin once removed, when she was just 13 years old.RomanceIn 1956, the 21-year-old Lewis moves in with his cousin JW Brown in Memphis, Tennessee. Immediately, he clock...

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