Los Angeles Times
The hero of
"The Soloist" is Los Angeles Times columnist
Steve Lopez. "[He] is the conscience of our paper as much as he is of our city, whether he's chiding our feckless mayor, exposing the sorry state of our public schools or shining a light on our neglect of the homeless," writes
Patrick Goldstein. "I don't say this out of friendship -- I'd never met Lopez before we converged on the movie set. I'm simply a loyal reader."
