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"Stoned": Sex and drugs, a little light on the rock 'n' roll
By Alison Willmore on 03/24/2006
The musician biopic has come into its own, or at least a kind of middlebrow prestige, with "Ray" and "Walk the Line" scoring award nominations by molding their respective subjects' lives into a standard narrative arc of troubled childhood/rise to success/drug abuse/redemption, with a hearty dash of half-assed psychoanalysis thrown mixed in. Early Rolling Stones member Brian Jones isn't so convenient a focus — after being kicked out of the band in his mid-20s, he lolled around Sussex, drinking, dallying with a succession of girlfriends and playing at remodeling his house, before turning up dead in the pool at... MORE »
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