It's unheard of for a movie to play one night in five cities before it's finished and before it has a distributor. But nothing about Louis--which inspired widely divergent reactions at a recent Beverly Hills screening--is what you'd call normal. Also marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, radio host/writer/actor Harry Shearer's searing expose The Big Uneasy hits theaters August 30 for one night only. First, Louis is the definition of a vanity project. Veteran Sonia Dada songwriter/musician Dan Pritzker, 50, (a scion of Hyatt Hotels' Jay Pritzker) had never made a movie before when he fell in love with the silent cinema one night, watching Chaplin's City Lights with a live orchestra. For five years he has pursued filming a story about the man who ...
- 8/25/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
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