Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge, directors Blair Foster, Alex Gibney

Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge, directors Blair Foster, Alex Gibney

Rolling Stones: Stories From The Edge is an excellent documentary about an iconic, outstanding magazine

A viewer is blessed to have this narrative told with the great voices of Jeff Daniels and Johnny Depp.

Cameron Crowe talks about his experience working at this wonderful periodical that has had vicissitudes

Almost Famous is actually telling a lot about the experience of a young man, who wants to be a reporter.

The celebrated writer and director was in high school, just like the protagonist of Almost Famous, when he had a tremendous chance

He could write a story about The Eagles.

Another enticing moment in the life of Rolling Stone and in this exciting documentary refers to Bill Clinton.

The top team of the magazine had an interview, or rather a long talk with Bill Clinton, the ultimate charmer.

Hunter S. Thompson was not convinced, indeed, he stood up from the table and left to return with a long drink.

Afterwards, when the discussion was over, the writer declared that he would not campaign for Bill Clinton.

When the latter became president, in another interview, at the White House this time, Clinton loses his temper.

One of the founders of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, the key figure in this documentary, asked the president the key question…

                What would you die for?

Bill Clinton lost his control and he rambled about not being helped, people not endorsing his actions and more.

He saw the question as inappropriate and went on hateful and accusing people who ask this kind of stupid questions…wow…

Ice T. has a segment, where the magazine dealt with the subversive, hateful and provocative song about killing a cop.

That caused attacks and protests from the police force and the rapper explains that it all played to their advantage, for instead of scrutinizing police actions and abuses, the media and others were concentrating on a side story.

Rolling Stone had a very challenging idea of its own, by putting the rapper on the cover…dressed in police uniform.

A recent story that has caused uproar and ultimately provoked changes in the military hierarchy had general Stanley McChrystal as the subject.

The general was the commander of the American forces in Afghanistan and admired as a new age hero.

Super hero is actually the image that McChrystal had, with his early morning jogging, at four a.m., the apparition in unexpected places among soldiers who started thinking that this man, who does not sleep will win the war by himself.

Even before the final article would be published, the Rolling Stone piece had created a hurricane.

The commander was quoted as referring to Joe Biden as Bite Me and he was more than ireverential, perceived as insulting towards Barack Obama and the civilian leaders of the Armed Forces.

Consequently, the general was summoned and dismissed, with a tornado accusing both McChrystal and the journalist, blamed for using “off record” material in a story that should not have contained that information.

A very interesting statement from Hunter Thompson, explains that journalism cannot possibly be objective.

If one considers the coverage of Fox News and the way they dismiss the Russia Investigation and simply ignore almost all the detrimental information, no matter how accurate regarding their Donald, one has to agree with Thompson.

In other segments of this outstanding documentary about this classic magazine, we learn about the downfall of Britney Spears, the vitiated rape story on campus, the flawed televangelist, John Lennon and his free, shocking language and references to the Beatles in an interview, the support for various candidates.

The editor supported Hilary Clinton, while allowing a reporter to back the challenger Bernie Sanders.

After the disaster of the election of the ignoble, possibly demented, surely ruthless and mean Donald, Obama is interviewed.

Counterintuitively, he has an optimistic message.