{"id":57587,"date":"2023-08-09T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=57587"},"modified":"2023-08-09T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:49:08","slug":"cnn-films-to-premiere-little-richard-i-am-everything-for-tv-on-monday-september-4-9pm-et-pt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/cnn-films-to-premiere-little-richard-i-am-everything-for-tv-on-monday-september-4-9pm-et-pt\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Films to Premiere &#8220;Little Richard: I Am Everything&#8221; for TV on Monday, September 4 @ 9PM ET\/PT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Little Richard: I Am Everything<\/em><\/strong>, from Academy Award\u00ae nominated and Emmy-winning director Lisa Cort\u00e9s, will premiere for television on Monday, September 4 @ 9PM ET\/PT on CNN. Heralded as &#8220;a sublime tribute,&#8221; and &#8220;the enthralling documentary that Little Richard deserves,&#8221; the film had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n&#8217; roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator &#8211; the originator &#8211; Richard Penniman.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yGpYtFzmq6c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made this film because the story of Little Richard is the story of rock &#8216;n roll &#8211; and rock &#8216;n roll is the American idiom,&#8221; says Cort\u00e9s. &#8220;Little Richard embodies all the complexity of our country: its paradoxes and cruelties, its beauty and its genius.&#8221;<\/p><div id=\"morty-2317594924\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings viewers into Richard&#8217;s complicated inner world, Little Richard: I Am Everything unspools the icon&#8217;s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. 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