Amy Winehouse s friends reveal what her time in NYC was really like

On May 17, a scripted movie about Amy Winehouses life, Back to Black starring Marisa Abela as the doomed singer opens in the US, after earning eyebrowraising reviews in the UK. NY Post Senior News Features Writers Michael Kaplan shares this story. A critic for the Evening Standard called it so bad it made me gasp in horror and wrote that it does not paint a nice or fair picture of Winehouse as a human. Her friends and colleagues in New York City, like saxophonist Ian HendricksonSmith, remember her as wonderful. They knew a funloving, mischievous and incredibly talented woman prior to the tragedy that later played out before paparazzi cameras: the smeared mascara and ratty beehive and body visibly ravaged by drugs and drink and bulimia. Read more at , amywinehouse, backtoblack The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sport