AKA DOC POMUS

AKA DOC POMUS
Dir. Peter Miller and Will Hechter (98min, USA, 2012)
Documentary 

Doc
Pomus' dramatic life is one of American music's great untold stories.
Paralyzed with polio as a child, the Jewish, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder
(A.K.A Doc Pomus) reinvented himself first as blues shouter, then as
one of the most prolific songwriters of the early rock and roll era. 

For
most of his life Doc was confined to crutches or a wheelchair, but he
lived more during his sixty-five years than others could experience in
several lifetimes. A.K.A. Doc Pomus brings to life Doc's
joyous, romantic, heartbreaking, and eventful journey. In his later
years, Doc was a mentor to generations of younger songwriters, and a
fierce advocate for downtrodden musicians. He wrote a thousand songs -
including some of the most recorded songs in the history of popular
music - but his most lasting gift may have been his uniquely generous
spirit. "If the music industry had a heart," the record producer Jerry
Wexler remembered, "it would be Doc Pomus."  Packed with incomparable
music and rare archival imagery, A.K.A. Doc Pomus features
interviews with Doc's collaborators and friends, including Dr. John, Ben
E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, and B.B. King. Passages from
his private journals are read by his close friend, Lou Reed. Doc Pomus'
gripping life story makes for a powerful and lively film that
introduces this unique American character to a new, much wider circle of
admirers.

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