Fuck Cancer: Sharon Jones Is Still Here
“I’m not really well known in everybody’s household, but I got a documentary about me,” Sharon Jones says proudly. The soul-singing firecracker who raises the roof and brings down the house from the stage each night she performs is excited about the documentary about her, Miss Sharon Jones! that makes its New York debut this week. Her excitement is understandable and infectious, because the film, directed by Barbara Koppel, documents the worst year of Jones’s life–those spent battling pancreatic cancer. Jones is still here, though, and she’s back on the stage where she has spent the bulk of her life.