Darryl Wiggers, programming director for Scream TV, sent me this email:
Special Midnight Screening of the film
PAULY SHORE IS DEAD
Friday, January 28th at The Royal Cinema
with Pauly Shore LIVE in PERSON!
Tickets $12 advance / $15 night of show
Tickets available from Suspect Video
(605 Markham St & 619 Queen St. West)
Sponsored by Suspect Video and Presented by Ultra 8 Pictures
Finally, a movie that answers the question “what ever happened to Pauly
Shore?” with a satirical, sometimes self-deprecating, and often
hilarious honesty. Tracing the rise of the comedic it-boy and his
subsequent fall from favor, Pauly eventually loses everything: his
popularity, his house, his representation and his career. He is
humiliated in the public eye, and is forced to go to work parking cars
at his mother’s club, The Comedy Store; at a loss, he receives a
visitation from the ghost of Sam Kinison, who advises suicide.
According to Kinison, Shore’s dead career would be resurrected and
canonized in the event of the comedian’s death, and Pauly decides to go
along with this, at least to a point. He fakes his own death, and
Kinison’s prophecy comes true as all of Hollywood and fans across the
nation begin to extoll the genius that was Pauly. Basking in the glow
of his newfound appreciation, Shore goes out on the town in disguise,
but unfortunately his secret is discovered, he’s locked up, and now
looks more the fool than ever. The film is successful on the strength
of it’s good-natured, self-conscious quality of comedic revelation, and
is certainly augmented by its star power. The half-fiction,
half-autobiographical film boasts cameos from the likes of Sean Penn,
Pam Anderson, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Whoopi Goldberg, Kurt Loder,
Carson Daly, Vince Vaghn, Snoop Dog, Ben Stiller, Britney Spears, Chris
Rock, Corey Feldman, and Heidi Fleiss, among many, many others. It
would appear that The Weiz is not quite as unpopular as he presents
himself.
I gotta say, I loved the guy in Encino Man. He made that movie (sorry, Sean Astin).
