Worried About the Boy [HD]

Two Snaps! Bring this to the US!
The public gets nostalgic after 20 years. I remember when there was a Monkees' craze in the 1980s. Then, in the early 1990s, young people learned about Jim Morrison through the Stone film. In late 1999, I told some friends, "The 2000s is when folk will rediscover Culture Club!" Well, I was off by a decade, but this film shows that it happened, at least "across the pond."

You don't have to be a Culture Club fan to enjoy this film. However, if you had the book "When Cameras Go Crazy" and if you read Boy George's "Take It like a Man," then you will love this. The outfits matched real life. The gist of the story is factual. It was like being a fly on the wall before Culture Club blew up. I never saw "Taboo," so I can't say which was more authentic, but this seemed very real to me. Their lack of altering the facts is a sign of the compelling story that La O'Dowd has. For non-fans, this will be a shocker. Boy George didn't always have a ragdoll look. Here he's more...

"Gay men think you're too much." -Marilyn
WORRIED ABOUT THE BOY (a/k/a Karma Caméléon, 2012, Dir. Julian Jarrold, 92 minutes, UK original screening May, 2010) is a classy biopic about a true hero of mine, George O'Dowd. We all know him as Boy George. Sadly confined to only a few years' time, this classy, well-executed and artful work is probably the only Boy George biopic I will live to see - thus I am ecstatic about it.

And it is the best biopic of its kind.

Beginning in Boy George's youth in 1980 (he's played by a far too skinny Douglas Booth, who is a Johnny Depp clone), this pings back and forth between the five unsettled years when music was super-hot and the artists were just the opposite. Until the other side of that timeline, when Boy George brought true beauty to music. In 1980, however, Boy George is trying his best, but he can't seem to break out and move beyond his 'fashion photo' appearances.

He meets Steve Strange (Marc Warren, a Strange clone!), who gives him his...

"Gay men think you're too much." -Marilyn
WORRIED ABOUT THE BOY (a/k/a Karma Caméléon, 2012, Dir. Julian Jarrold, 92 minutes, UK original screening May, 2010) is a classy biopic about a true hero of mine, George O'Dowd. We all know him as Boy George. It is impossible to tell why this is listed as BOO HOO when the film and the DVD is rightly titled Worried About the Boy (I have a review under that one also). The title is a reference to George's father, who is worried about him in his early years.

Sadly confined to only a few years' time, this classy, well-executed and artful work is probably the only Boy George biopic I will live to see - thus I am ecstatic about it. And it is the best biopic of its kind.

Beginning with Boy George's youth in 1980 (he's played by a far too old and skinny Douglas Booth, who is a gay Johnny Depp clone best known for playing Pip in Masterpiece's...

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