All hail mesmerizing Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx. There is way too much Hough and Boneta. Baldwin and Brand are the new “yes”.
Did any innocent girl from corn & cow country ever leave home for the dream of making it as a singer/actress/model in Hollywood with her panties still on?
Bourbon Room is hallowed as the rock club of destiny, a Fillmore West with a bar license. As a landmark of depravity, the puppet master of Mayor Mike
Now if Bourbon Street was a haven for drug use, prostitution and public sex, Patricia would have a good platform. But it’s just a launch pad for musicians looking to jump into superstardom. Yeah, there’s drinking, but not one “popper”.
As for public sex, I lived a few blocks away from the mens-only club, The Anvil.
With the Mayor’s wife rallying Christian women to stage protests, Dupree brings Stacee Jaxx back. The lead singer of an insanely famous rock band, heralded for its debauchery, Jaxx will be performing for the first time as a solo artist. Jaxx is a sex god consuming the souls of Jim Morrison, Keith Richards, and Axl Rose (pre-plastic surgery). His entourage includes his monkey sidekick, manager Paul Gill (Paul Giamatti) and semi-naked girls. Stacee is drunk
I would see ROCK OF AGES again, if it cut out everything except Cruise’s performance. Please consider that for the Blu-ray.
Everyone sings – even Giamatti! Or is it Auto-tune? Who cares! They all deliver as if they were born to sing. Baldwin and Brand have their show-stopper, REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling”, but it is Cruise that is mesmerizing. He is fantastic. He can sing.
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