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**** Rolling Stone Editor Interviews Brian Grazer On The Legend James Brown **** Mick Jagger In the new issue of Rolling Stone , editor David Browne sat down with renowned producer Brian Grazer on co-producing a James Brown biopic with Mick Jagger and that the project is set to begin casting soon! Grazer, whose credits range from Apollo 13 to 8 Mile, has been trying to make the movie since the late Nineties, when Spike Lee's name was initially attached as director. According to Deanna Brown-Thomas, one of Brown's seven children, her father was intrigued but wary of any movie based on his life, especially since it would dramatize his troubled life and drug problems. After Brown's death in 2006, the project floundered, but it's back up and running now that most of the legal wrangling over Brown's property and finances has been worked out. With the rights to Brown's music now sewn up, Grazer and a new co-producer – none o...

**** ROLLING STONE LOVE LETTERS **** Mick Jagger According to ABC News , Love letters revealing a hot and heavy affair between Mick Jagger and the woman who is said to have inspired the Rolling Stones classic “Brown Sugar” are set to be auctioned in London next month. Marsha Hunt, the young Rolling Stone’s apparent muse, is now 66 and living in France, broke and unable to pay her bills. The letters, which were penned during the summer of 1969, are said to show a sensitive side of Jagger, who was then in his mid-20s. “The letters speak for Mick at an incredible juncture in our lives,” Hunt said. “The summer of ’69 was the end of a whole era of revolutionary spirit. We didn’t know it was about to die.”