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LIFE STORY

Today's film was Steven Soderburg's documentary of Spalding Gray made from Spalding Gray's own autobiographical sketches for which he became famous. It is a NYT Critics' Choice.

And Everything is Going Fine (2010)

We say Gray perform a couple of times. It was some show.

Gray had a long career inventing his particular art and was quite successful.

He had a colorful young life and then just built upon that with his career in the theater and then doing readings, films and books of his own life.

There are no talking heads hear. Just Spalding Gray.

The film does not note that Gray walked into the water and disappeared. The body was found later.

This fact puts a peculiar slant to the film which is quite good. Inventive. It is all in the editing.

I would not want to see it again but I did like it. That makes it a 3 out of Netflix5. I did not like the "making of" which I bailed from. It began to feel like a little too morbid. But that is me.

No doubt he was a great guy and when he pulled his on plug he had been through some horrendous recovery from an auto accident. And so on. He left three kids who he had later in life. I have trouble with that.

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