Bowie was Ghomeshi's idol, the man he most wanted to interview.
Seen in tandem with their other films together (The Fallen Idol, Our Man in Havana) there is a strong case to be made for them as one of the finest writer/director teams in cinema.
But this is a different level, playing in a field with the world's best players, in the final pairing with Els, his boyhood idol, the man who played in an event with Schwartzel's father, George, some 22 years ago, whose swing he studied on videotape as a youngster.
What he wants to be is an erudite, sardonic breaker of false idols, the man who says the unsayable and does it with style.
Make sure that society's idols are men and women who got rich from being sexy in public or through gambling or playing tricks, not from hard work or patience.
His idols were men like Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and Stokely Carmichael.
Don't be fooled, however, Terrence is no false idol or quivering man huddled behind a curtain, but rather, one of the most prolific, kind-hearted, and hilarious men I've ever had the pleasure of knowing, and a true magician and musician of the written word.
The gap between the idol and the man widens each time, as Harris becomes disillusioned by Lee's passive liberalism.
In one witty scene, Chris is shocked to learn that his long-haired, snake-hipped idol -- the man he has spent countless hours trying to be -- not only wears a wig but also is gay.
