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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..
31 May 1965, New York City, New York, USA
13 February 1942, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
17 November 1925, Winnetka, Illinois, USA
22 September 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
19 May 1951, Queens, New York, USA
10 October 1954, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
3 October 1973, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
15 July 1946, Tucson, Arizona, USA
20 June 1942, Inglewood, California, USA
May 26, 1972 in London, England, UK
August 30, 1935 in Parris Island, South Carolina, USA
29 May 1967, Longsight, Manchester, England, UK
16 February 1935, Detroit, Michigan, USA
12 November 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6 July 1927, Merced, California, USA
October 26, 2007
A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it.
November 14, 2005
too much in awe of subject matter
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.
July 05, 2008
a great doc but sad as hell
April 28, 2005
Wistful oddball documentary by George Hickenlooper.
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.
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.
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.
May 06, 2004
Creepily entertaining.
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.
April 30, 2004
Feels like an elegy for an aging rock pixie.