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 The new documentary about George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley and the music they made as Wham! - is simply called "Wham!" — found me in a moment of need for a fantastical, nostalgic elixir, something short and sweet and tangential to my national blues sentiment. On one hand, Wham! the duo made soul music that exploded. And the movie glosses over all the thorny moral and ethical issues of white people doing black things. Those questions don't exist at all in this movie. That is the fantasy. And I'm here for that. But also: Boom! it had no thorns. They were two white boys from England of strong Greek Cypriot (George) and Egyptian (Andrew) ancestry, born during the rise of Motown in the early 1960s and bonded as teens as disco passed the baton. party to the new wave and rap. . They synthesized it all (plus a bit of Barry Manilow and Freddie Mercury, and some Billy Joel) into a genre whose only other alchemists, really, were Hall and Oates. Director: Chris Smith Stars: Georg...