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'Rock Star' fun, pretty, witty By
Julie Sulunga Mark Wahlberg with long hair and a very pretty brunette at his side. It might sound like another one of the facades in his never-ending adventurous life, but it is only another addition to his growing movie regime. Rock Star is just the latest to come from Mark Wahlberg and features him playing Chris Cole, an office clerk and fix-it guy by day and the lead singer in a tribute band to the fictional Steel Pulse band, whom he loves and idolizes more than anything. This movie is based on Rob Morrow of Judas Priest doing the same thing, so essentially it is based on a true story but, it is fictional in detail and in storyline. Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston star in the movie with Aniston being Chris' girlfriend and manager of the tribute band, Blood Pollution. The movie takes us through the fictional perils of what it is like to be in a rock band and have your world change overnight when you are asked to lead the band you idolize. The movie takes on the overwhelming struggle of what a person truly values and what is most important. By the end Chris realizes what this is and comes to terms with it giving up the one thing that in the beginning of the movie he could not live without. Steel Pulse, the band Chris joins, is made up of real-life musicians, including Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist; Verve Pipe's guitarist Brian Vander Ark, Dokken's bassist Jeff Pilson and Led Zeppelin's offspring drummer Jason Boutlam. There is also a cameo appearance by Stephan Jenkins from the band Third Eye Blind, and Rod Stewart's former wife Rachel Hunter also plays a bit part in the movie. Famous rock stars and two very beautiful, well-known actors playing the front man of this movie --there is nothing more you could ask for. (Except maybe a cameo from former New Kid on the Block brother Donnie Wahlberg.) That might just be too much excitement and mixture for one movie, though.
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