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    Mötley Crüe's long-awaited biopic 'The Dirt' readies for its Netflix debut. After #MeToo, do we need it?

    by Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2019 5 minutes

    At the end of a recent conversation regarding the new Motley Crue biopic "The Dirt," the band's drummer, Tommy Lee, paused to reflect on those halcyon days of the 1980s, when heavy metal ruled the Sunset Strip and his band was on top of the world.

    "Today's so different. We got away with murder," he said.

    Based on Motley Crue's 2001 best-selling autobiography of the same name and directed by "Jackass" co-creator Jeff Tremaine, "The Dirt" - which arrives Friday on Netflix - ignores the most controversial scenes in the book, including one that recounts an incident at a party in which, unbeknownst to an unnamed victim, band member Nikki Sixx sneaks Lee and an anonymous teenager into a sexual scenario with the "slurring and stumbling" woman.

    Marketed as a "warts-and-all" retelling of the band's rise and fall, its arrival will likely prompt questions,

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