LRTV on LRF NOW: Rolling Stone 3.10 - You Can't Always Get What You Want - Season 3 Finale

Before LRF kicks off Season 17 (!), we will use the hiatus to debut the season finale episodes of four LRTV series ("She-Hulk", "Miami Vice", "L.A. Noire" and "Rolling Stone") that had their seasons interrupted due to unforeseen circumstances.

If you feel you need a refresher before viewing the finale episodes, here are the links to all previous episodes of "Rolling Stone":

Season 1:
Pilot
Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Cumberland Blues
Open the Door to Your Heart
Under My Thumb
Safe As Milk
Backlash Blues
Baby I'm-a Want You
Can't Find My Way Home
Casey Jones

Season 2:
Make It with You
The Seeker
A Song For You
Move Over
Piece of My Heart
Up Around the Bend
Bridge Over Troubled Water
First I Look at the Purse
My Sweet Lord
Box of Rain

Season 3:
Let It Be
Till the Morning Comes
Viva Las Vegas
The Night Before
Help Me Make It Through the Night
The Changeling
Let's Live for Today
Nobody Loves The Hulk
Our House

and now for the Season 3 finale of "Rolling Stone"....

Rolling Stone - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Genre: Drama
Executive Producer: Oliver Stone
Writer: D.R. Cobb
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Aimee Teegarden, Lou Taylor Pucci, Alicia Witt, John C. McGinley, Mark Hamill, Melora Hardin, Anna Chlumsky, Peter Facinelli

Plot: September 1971. The new semester is just a couple weeks in at UC Berkeley for Brady Conroy (Josh Hartnett). He finally musters up the courage and knocks on the door of his boss, the head of the journalism department, Dean Alan Smalling (John C. McGinley). Smalling greets Brady warmly and invites him to have a seat. Brady sits down and tells him that he's decided to step down from his teaching role at the end of the semester to focus on his writing career. Smalling is livid and begins yelling at Brady. He tells Brady that he rejects his resignation, and yells that Brady is fired - effective immediately. Brady gets up to leave. Smalling tells him that Brady will never teach at a California university as long as he breathes. If he even so much as hears that Brady is applying at other schools, Smalling will inform them that he fired Brady for doing drugs on the job and sleeping with students. Brady is about to punch Smalling, but manages to restrain himself and leaves Smalling's office, slamming the door behind him.

Celeste (Aimee Teegarden) is at City Lights where Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Mark Hamill) and Nancy Peters (Anna Chlumsky) proudly show her the test printing of her book of poems. Celeste almost starts crying while holding a copy. They tell her that they are ready to start selling them by the end of the week, and would like her to do a reading to help drum up interest. They tell her they will spread the word and make fliers for a Saturday afternoon reading. Celeste profusely thanks them.

Jimmy (Lou Taylor Pucci) as at the gallery with the owner Jennifer Albright (Melora Hardin) setting up for his after hours showing. They post several pictures of the sexual acts between Lexi and Mary Jane, as well as other pictures from the commune. Jennifer shares with Jimmy that she has invited some publishing luminaries, and if they like his work there's always the chance that one of them could commission him to photograph for them. Jimmy says that would be cool and all, but he's not going to get his hopes up. He did some photographs for Rolling Stone magazine the year before, but it didn't really work out for him.

Brady walks into the Rolling Stone offices. He tells Kylee Hargrove (Alicia Witt) at the front desk that he resigned or was fired from the university, depending on who you ask. She asks what he plans on doing now, and he says that he's working on something a little more long form, hopefully for the magazine. She says that is exciting news. Brady says that he is a little more trepidation about the situation since he isn't used to being without a regular steady gig. Kylee says that she's sure he could always write smaller pieces for the magazine if need be.

Jimmy is nervously standing around the gallery as people start to show up for the after hours showing of his work. Jennifer is hard at work talking up the pieces and introducing the guests to Jimmy. Jimmy then notices a well-dressed man staring at the pictures of Lexi and Mary Jane. Jimmy asks if the guy is a creep, but Jennifer tells him to lower his volume with talk like that and tells him that is Bob Guccione (Peter Facinelli), founder of Hustler Magazine. Jimmy suddenly perks up and walks over to the man and introduces himself as a fan of the magazine. Guccione tells Jimmy that he is a fan of Jimmy's eye for the erotic, motioning toward the photographs of Lexi and Mary Jane on the wall.

The next day, Brady and Jimmy arrive at City Lights for the reading of Celeste's book of poetry. Ferlinghetti introduces Celeste to the collection of regular poetry enthusiasts and literary critics that have congregated at the book store to hear Celeste's words. Brady goes up to her before she goes up in front of everyone. He gives her a kiss and tells her he's proud of him. Celeste gets up in front of the crowd and opens up her book of poetry and begins reading from it.