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Screamin' Jay Hawkins is as expected at a Greek Film Festival as Michael
Dukakis at a blues joint. But that's what makes I Put a Spell on Me,
Nicholas Triandafyllidis's joyful documentary at the American Museum of the
Moving Image's Greek Cinema Showcase, so appealing. Hawkins (pictured), the
weirdo fifties bluesman and rock-and-roller, always wanted to sing opera,
and Triandafyllidis was to film his debut in Athens. Unfortunately,
Screamin' Jay died shortly before that performance, and the film became a
tribute, including interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Bo Diddley, and the
Animals' Eric Burdon and extensive footage of the wild man himself — a
figure whose stage show, equipped with coffins and explosives, was tame
compared with his World War II experiences and prodigious womanizing. Opens
May 10, with a Triandafyllidis Q&A after the screening. 