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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
The Monkees to Coldplay, Rodney Bingenheimer - a.k.a. Rodney on the ROQ - has reigned over the Los Angeles music scene for over two decades. A constantly evolving fixture as rock fan, journalist, promoter, club owner and radio DJ on KROQ, Bingenheimer..
9 January 1950, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
17 June 1958, Boulder, Colorado, USA
24 January 1948, London, England, UK
8 December 1955, Burbank, California, USA
30 July 1967, Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
6 September 1938, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
18 June 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
3 June 1925, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
2 May 1903, Tacoma, Washington, USA
2 September 1964, Beirut, Lebanon
April 30, 2004
Occasionally laughable, often sad, and profoundly evocative of the way we live now, adrift in a culture saturated with celebrity and obsessed by fame.
April 30, 2004
Feels like an elegy for an aging rock pixie.
April 28, 2005
Wistful oddball documentary by George Hickenlooper.
January 15, 2006
By the end, I felt neither happy nor sad for Rodney. I enjoyed being in his presence for 90 minutes, but I can't exactly agree that he has a magnetic personality.
October 26, 2007
A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it.
May 21, 2004
Captures Bingenheimer in all his celeb-fondling glory. But it's a forlorn sight, one the film doesn't turn away from as it arcs from giddy inclusion to lonely pathos.
November 14, 2005
too much in awe of subject matter
May 06, 2004
Creepily entertaining.
April 30, 2004
At first a wryly comic study of a real-life, shag-topped Zelig ... Hickenlooper's nuanced documentary shifts into far deeper and darker emotional territory once it starts revealing Bingenheimer's heart-wrenching backstory.
August 10, 2004
Has a commercial reach that goes beyond local hero worship thanks in part to an all-star lineup of interviewees, including Cher, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Gwen Stefani and Courtney Love, to name just a few confirmed Rod-heads.
July 05, 2008
a great doc but sad as hell