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Cameron Crowe shares similar delusions with Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl and Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom – clinging to bogus sentimentality and outdated ideology[br]Please,please, stop giving old white men television shows. The latest travesty to hit the airwaves is Roadies, and a prove approximately a rock tour crew imagined up by Cameron Crowe,the writer and director of nearly Famous.Along with Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom and Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl, Roadies is emblematic of a plague of what happens when TV executives let old men with an axe to grind do whatever they want. The result is always the same: the exultation of the past at the expense of the future – an attempt to rewrite the world to fit somebody’s outdated ideology. Related: genuine-life roadies review Roadies: 'I felt like a nurse watching an hour of ER' Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com