HBO’s ‘Rolling Stone’ doc tracks 50 years through rose-colored glasses




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Summary: Directors Alex Gibney and Blair Foster made a telling decision about how they would film the story of Rolling Stone magazine and its place in American culture during the past 50 years: Almost no one would be allowed to grow old.Co-founder Jann Wenner does, so do photographer Annie Leibovitz and Ice-T, but we only see others like Mikal Gilmore, Greil Marcus, Jon Landau, Cameron Crowe and Ben Fong-Torres in archival images when they were younger.