Aug 11 2009 12:41 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 12 2009 05:12 PM
Diane Lane is a teenager in a dead-end town heading for a dead-end life. When a touring rock show comes through town she and her sister and cousin and their nascent band get offered a spot on the bill.
They take the job just to get out of town, stink horribly, but become a growing sensation thanks to her publicity-grabbing loud mouth and attention-grabbing look. Gradually they work their way to the top of the bill and the rest is all part of my rock 'n' roll fantasy.
This thing has been re-issued and Ms. Edgy rented it because it's getting a lot of attention in fashion blogs and magazines. (She reads them at the gym, what of it?) Noteable is the band in the middle slot on the bill, a classick punk lineup fronted by British character actor Ray Winstone (who you recently saw as "Mac" in Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull) and backed by Clash bassist Paul Simonon and Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook.
The headliner is fronted by a burned out glam rocker played by the Tubes' Fee Waybill. Fee Freakin' Waybill! The guy was 31, in the prime of his own musical career, and is getting work playing burned out old guys. Well, that's just sad is what it is.
Anybody else stumble into this one? Just me? Ok.