Editing Ike Turner (section)

=== Portrayal in popular culture ===
In 1986, Tina Turner released her autobiography, ''I, Tina'', in which she recounted Turner's volatile behavior. He received negative publicity that was exacerbated in 1993 by the release of the film adaptation ''[[What's Love Got to Do with It (1993 film)|What's Love Got to Do with It]]''.<ref name="Fowler-1998" /> Turner received $45,000 for the film, but he had unknowingly signed papers waiving the right to sue [[Disney]]'s [[Touchstone Pictures]] for his depiction.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=227-228}} He was portrayed by [[Laurence Fishburne]], whose performance earned him an Oscar nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] at the [[66th Academy Awards#Awards|66th Academy Awards]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 10, 1994|title=THE 66th ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS : OSCARS : The Nominees|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-10-ca-21456-story.html}}</ref>

After the release of the film, the fictionalized version of Turner from the movie was seized on by comedians, who reused the persona in sketches. On the 1990s [[sketch comedy]] show ''[[In Living Color]]'', Turner was parodied by [[David Alan Grier]]. He was portrayed on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''{{'}}s [[Weekend Update]] by [[Tim Meadows]] in a pageboy wig. On the ''[[John Boy and Billy]]'' radio show, cast member [[Jeff Pillars]] regularly performed an impersonation of Turner in a segment called "Ax/Ask Ike". These sketches were collected in a 2008 comedy album ''Ike at the Mike''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ike at the Mike John Boy & Billy|url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ike-at-the-mike/id299236587|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223022343/https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ike-at-the-mike/id299236587|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 23, 2013|work=iTunes Store|date=December 10, 2008|publisher=Apple Inc|access-date=November 1, 2011}}</ref> In 2006, ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'' magazine ranked the character of Ike Turner from ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' at No. 4 in their list of the 20 best movie "bad guys".<ref name="vibe">{{cite magazine|last=Dauphin|first=Gary|date=April 2006|title=Bad Guys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7SYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA119|magazine=Vibe|access-date=February 27, 2012}}</ref>

Commenting on the historical accuracy of the film, Tina told [[Larry King]] in 1997: "I would have liked them to have more truth, but according to Disney [owner of the film's production company], they said it's impossible, the people would not have believed the truth."<ref name="Christian-2008">{{Cite magazine|last=Christian|first=Margena A.|date=January 7, 2008|title=Rock 'N' Roll Pioneer Ike Turner Dies At 76|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ETsDAAAAMBAJ&q=ike+turner+&pg=PA4|magazine=Jet|volume=112|issue=26|pages=56–59}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tina-turner-1958-2007/|title=Rocker Supreme"1958-2007|website=The Pop History Dig|language=en-US|access-date=December 7, 2019}}</ref> In 2018, Tina told [[Oprah Winfrey]] that she only recently watched the film, but she could not finish it because she "didn't realize they would change the details so much."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/a23550728/oprah-tina-turner-november-2018-magazine-interview/|title=Tina Turner Talks To Oprah About Keeping Her Spirits Up After a Stroke and Losing Her Son|last=Winfrey|first=Oprah|date=October 3, 2018|website=Oprah magazine}}</ref> Phil Spector criticized Tina's book and called the film a "piece of trash" during his eulogy at Turner's funeral.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|last=Leeds|first=Jeff|title=Ike Turner is Eulogized as misunderstood|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/arts/music/22turner.html|access-date=October 3, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 22, 2007}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

In 2015, [[TV One (American TV channel)|TV One]]'s ''[[Unsung (TV series)|Unsung]]'' offered some redemption with "[[List of Unsung episodes#Season 8|The Story of Ike Turner]]", which documented his career along with his trials and tribulations.<ref name="Penrice-2015">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theroot.com/tv-one-s-unsung-offers-redemption-for-ike-turner-1790860059|title=TV One's Unsung Offers Redemption for Ike Turner|last=Penrice|first=Ronda Racha|date=June 3, 2015|website=The Root|language=en-us}}</ref> In the musical ''[[Tina (musical)|Tina: The Tina Turner Musical]]'', Turner was portrayed by British actor [[Kobna Holdbrook-Smith]], who won the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical]] for his role in 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://tinathemusical.com/cast-creative/|title=CAST & CREATIVE |work=Tina Turner Musical Limited|access-date=May 31, 2018}}</ref>