‘Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over’ Film Review: Doc Pays Homage to a Living Musical Legend
Twitter, then it will have done its job, but even lifelong fans are likely to come away from “Don’t Make Me Over” with new information about, or at least deeper respect for, her career.She recounts her own life story, from growing up in New Jersey, singing publicly for the first time at the age of six (in her grandfather’s church) and watching her aunt Cissy Houston — who lived with the Warwicks; Dionne describes her as being more of a big sister — achieve success with the gospel combo the Drinkard Singers before venturing out herself as a demo singer while attending college.One of Warwick’s early gigs was singing back-up on The Drifters’ “Mexican Divorce,” which brought her to the attention of the up-and-coming songwriting duo Burt