reducing his life to a cigarette commercial

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2005)

Who paid for Ray? The tobacco companies? Its one big cigarette commercial and sometimes on the bar you can even see the brand. Its illegal to advertise smoking on TV so heres the trick: smoke, smoke, smoke in movies and of course it will soon be on TV. Ray Charles had a tough life and made great music. The acting is superb and the scenes of the time periods, excellent. What a cheap trick by big tobacco to reduce his life to one sometimes way too long cigarette commercial. Who gets paid by the tobacco companies? The actors? The studio bigwigs? Somebody does. Smoking in movies should be banned. Movie companies should be required to disclose payments to actors and actresses from the tobacco companies.