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"Shine a Light" Brings Major Satisfaction

If you are a Rolling Stones fan, don't miss Martin Scorsese's brilliant new Stones doc, "Shine a Light." I went Sunday, and I am telling you - this film needs to be seen in this theater, with this sound system. It will blow your socks off. I don't care how craggy and beaten and road-weary the Stones look - they rock harder than any band half their age. People in the theater were bobbing their heads, drumming their hands on the seats…the music is just unbelievable. Jack White, Buddy Guy and Christina Aguilera (!) all turn in great guest appearances, while Scorsese interjects the masterful concert footage with some hilarious archival clips (a young Mick Jagger estimates to a reporter that the Stones are "set up for at least another year or so," and when Dick Cavett asks Mick if he can see himself still rocking out at 60, Mick replies with knowing conviction: "Yes, easily.")

While the music is the highlight of the show, the icing on the cake for me is Scorsese's masterful closing shot, which is both breathtaking and playful and also completely appropriate for the Stones. "Shine a Light" is playing its last show at 4 p.m. tomorrow - whatever you have to do, go check it out. You won't be disappointed.

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