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    Review: BET's 'Bobby Brown Story' packs compelling highs and lows for music fans and pop culture fiends

    by Makeda Easter, Los Angeles Times Sep 04, 2018 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - On a hot August day in Hollywood, Bobby Brown is giving "Bobby Brown" a lesson in how to have sex.

    The singer is sitting next to actor Woody McClain, who plays Brown in BET's "The Bobby Brown Story," a two-part film that was to premiere Tuesday about the popular and infamous R&B bad boy known for both his string of monster hits - with his group New Edition and as a solo act - and his headline-grabbing offstage behavior, much of it linked to his stormy marriage to the late artist Whitney Houston.

    McClain, who portrays a younger Brown in the project, recalled what it was like to channel Brown's wildly sexual antics in concert that were so explicit Brown was once arrested for simulating sex on stage and

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