A few weeks back, I went to the Magno screening room in midtown Manhattan to catch a screening of Crispin Glover's new picture It Is Fine! Everything is Fine. Excitement abounded. I'd failed to catch any of the screenings of Glover's What Is It? when it premiered late last year and was still feeling pangs of regret. I'd developed an acute obsession with the man after finding his website in 2005. Yes, it's common knowledge that George McFly is a big weirdo, but I didn't really appreciate just how weird at the time. The trailer for What Is It? scared the shit out of me. The notion of a mad character actor creating humor through Dadaist films starring a cast of spastics was as entrancing as it was revolting. You see, I thought he was being ironic. It's not my fault though. "Clowny Clown Clown" leaves an impression.
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