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I started reading about the real Florence Foster Jenkins....


...and the real woman was far more complex than this idiotic movie. She had a devoted following of many of the big names in music at the time — and not people who needed her patronage. Her unconscious parody was the toast of the trendy set. Although, yes, many found her to be the vocal equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard.

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Same as Julia child

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I've just seen a book in the library on her. By Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees. It looks good. I think I'll read that one.

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I read some about her on Wikipedia, but don’t know that much about her.

Did you hear her original recordings? They can be found on YouTube.

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Amazing, aren't they?

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They really are.

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