This gifted clarinetist was the first of his Big Band leader contemporaries to welcome African-American performers into his act. As a self-described "very difficult man," his ambivalence toward his own fame and show business was legendary, once seeking to chuck it for a novelist's career. At age 72, Artie Shaw opened up about his life and times to filmmaker Brigitte Berman ("Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet") for this Oscar-winning effort. Buddy Rich, Mel Tormé, Helen Forrest and more appear. 114 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack; English.