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Tina  Though she’s officially retired now, Tina Turner remains one of the most empowering figures among women in rock, particularly since she overcame so many obstacles not just race and gender bias, but leaving an artistic-marital relationship she’d previously been identified with to achieve that status. This documentary by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin ( Undefeated,  LA 92) charts that fifty-year career in aptly celebratory terms. But at the same time, it’s also a somewhat problematic illustration of our cultural moment’s tendency to define someone by their victimization rather than their achievements. Teenaged Anna Mae Bullock, after problematic early years in Tennessee, joined the mother who’d once abandoned her in 1955 St. Louis. Two years later at age 17 she boldly introduced herself to that city’s hottest bandleader, Ike Turner, and was soon his act’s lead singer. A sort of little sister/big brother dynamic turned to love and marriage, though having felt

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