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I neglected to mention the most startling piece of the Rush doc. It has a color filmed sequence from the 1960s where a defiant teenaged Aleksandar Živojinović (Alex Lifeson) confronts his disappointed immigrant parents telling them over a supper table that he's quitting high school to become a rock guitarist, that an education diploma is unnecessary for what he needs to do, and his crestfallen dad telling him he's throwing his life away.
It feels like contemporary "reality tv" and hard to believe the thing was captured. Apparently it is from a doc by Allan King about troubled teens, and Lifeson was one of those teens. He conceeds today that his decision - though it worked out for him - is not one he would encourage for his own kids.
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