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..
5 January 1950, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 January 1950, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
17 August 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 October 1969, Fullerton, California, USA
1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
25 March 1976, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
8 March 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
31 January 1956, London, England, UK
July 05, 2008
a great doc but sad as hell
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.
May 06, 2004
Creepily entertaining.
April 28, 2005
Wistful oddball documentary by George Hickenlooper.
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.
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.
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.
October 26, 2007
A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it.
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.
November 14, 2005
too much in awe of subject matter
