I remember talking to Johnny Russell years ago about Jim and it was a few months after "Sweet Dreams" came out and I asked him about the movie and he said something very similar. His response was "Charlie never beat her like that if he had she would have knocked him down" so it sounds lik Johnny got his "talking points" from Charlie.

I thought the movie was ok but the problem with bio movies is people believe whatever Hollywood puts in them. There are a lot of people out there who believe Patsy crashed into the side of a mountain because the plane ran out of gas.