New York Doll (tbc)
- Run time: 1 hour 14 mins
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1st January 2004
- Starring: David Johansen, Arthur Kane, Sylvain Sylvain
- Directed by: Greg Whitely
Plot Synopsis
Seminal glam rockers The New York Dolls achieved near legendary status for their anarchic cross-dressing proto-punk, their influence on countless other bands and their speedy self destruction thanks to the mandatory rock'n'roll recipe of drugs and jealous feuding. New York Doll nods to the history of the band by telling the story of its least flamboyant member, bassist Arthur 'Killer' Kane whose very lack of stage presence made him an icon anyway. After The Dolls' split and a few abortive attempts to resurrect his musical career, Kane all but disappeared. And so to 2004, when Greg Whitely began filming Kane, by then a 55-year-old baptised member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, riding the bus each day to volunteer in LA's Mormon Family History Centre. The same year of course Meltdown curator (and one time president of The New York Dolls fan club) Morrissey made the call for the band to reunite and play two historic gigs in London. In Kane, Whitely (a fellow Mormon) found a deeply likeable and sympathetic subject, whose winningly uncool delight at the prospect of putting aside old grievances to make music with the remaining band members has been made all the more poignant by subsequent events. Respect and RIP.