It's not news that biographers can be Judases. And with Mayor Of The Sunset Strip, documentarian George Hickenlooper is clearly guilty of laying bare the pathetic aspects of his subject's life and making a sweet, vulnerable guy into an object of pity.

This could not have been what they had in mind when friends of rock impresario Rodney Bingenheimer hired Hickenlooper to celebrate the life of the guy who all but invented L.A.'s Sunset Strip rock scene in the '60s and '70s.
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