New York Doll
Aroview: Affecting yet hilarious documentary about the bass-player of influential glam-punk band The New York Dolls, Arthur 'Killer' Kane, whose disastrous post-glam career is a model example of the post-fame obscurity which often follows musical celebrity.
Begun after dir. Whiteley met the impoverished Kane at a Mormon temple in Los Angeles, the film follows the improbable musician towards an uncomfortable New York Dolls reunion, all the while pondering exactly what the star's charisma contribution to the Dolls really was. Filled out with a requisite raft of side interviews with the likes of Iggy Pop, Bob Geldoff and Chrissie Hynde, this works chiefly as a revealing dissection of band chemistry and the odd psychic contaminations of fame.
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