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Podcast: Film Festival Radio
Episode: Taylor Blackwell on Becoming Judy Tenuta: Inside the New Biopic (CINEQUEST)
Description: Happened: The Judy Tenuta Story” follows the whimsical life and career of iconic ‘80s accordion-playing “comedienne” Judy Tenuta. Winner of Best Indie Short at L.A. Film Fest. A mini biopic on Judy Tenuta, who became nationally known in 1987 for her first HBO comedy special “Women of the Night”, starring alongside Ellen DeGeneres, Rita Rudner, and Paula Poundstone. Judy was a two-time Grammy nominee, winner of “Best Female Stand-Up Comic” at the American Comedy Awards in ’88. This film is a love letter to the self-proclaimed “love goddess”, and was made in close collaboration with her estate, family, and friends. Taylor Blackwell is the...