When Warner Bros gave the greenlight for Prince to make the Purple Rain film they did so with some trepidation, writer Matt Thorne says. Thorne, the author of Prince: The Man and His Music, says similar projects in the past had flopped. "There was a film with Paul Simon called One Trick Pony that came out about... read full story
"I don't think the film's misogynistic, I think there are actions within it that are misogynistic, but they're part of the story and part of the drama."