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* Geraldine Chaplin as Opal, a wacky, celebrity-obsessed, self-absorbed BBC radio reporter.

As a surrogate for the audience, she provides an outsider's perspective on the business of music.

She is never seen with a film crew, she never shows anyone any official credentials and complains at one point that her cameraman is never around when she needs him.

She also erroneously refers to her employer as the ' British Broadcasting Company ' ( the C in BBC actually standing for ' Corporation ').

Film critic Roger Ebert suggests, in his " Great Movies " article, that she may not even be a filmmaker but just a groupie who uses fake credentials to gain access to famous people.