Later Years
Loder started a nine-year run at Rolling Stone in May 1979. RockCritics.com has called him "one of Rolling Stone's most talented and prolific feature writers". Reason has called his tenure "legendary". While at Rolling Stone, Loder co-authored singer Tina Turner's 1986 autobiography I, Tina. He then contributed to the screenplay adaption for the film What's Love Got to Do with It.
Loder joined MTV in 1987 as the host of their flagship music news program, The Week in Rock. It was later expanded and renamed to MTV News in which he was an anchor and correspondent. Loder was one of the first to break the news of Kurt Cobain's death; he interrupted regular programming to inform viewers that Cobain was found dead. Loder authored a 1990 collection of his Rolling Stone work called Bat Chain Puller.
Loder has guest-starred as himself on Kenan & Kel, an episodeFrank Derkson of The Simpsons, Girlfriends, Duckman, and Saturday Night Live. He has also appeared in the films Who's the Man?, The Paper, Fear of a Black Hat, Airheads, Dead Man on Campus, Belly, The Suburbans, Entropy, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Sugar & Spice, Pauly Shore Is Dead, Tupac: Resurrection, The Sarah Silverman Program,and Ramones Raw. Loder currently resides in New York City.
In 2011, St. Martin's Press published Loder's The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews, which collected his film reviews from MTV.com and Reason.com.
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