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October 29, 2004
At The Movies: 'Ray' shines light on Charles' life, career
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
AP Movie Writer
He certainly did not feel it at the time, but director Taylor Hackford is enormously lucky it took 15 years to bring his film biography of Ray Charles to the screen.
Hackford himself concedes it was a blessing it took so long to put the project together since he first met Charles in the late 1980s.
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