Paul Williams Still Alive

A documentary filmmaker tracks down Grammy and Oscar award-winning actor/singer/songwriter Paul Williams in an attempt to find out what happened to his fallen idol. Paul Williams was one of the biggest stars of the 1970s. He was everywhere – on The Tonight Show 50 times and appeared on variety shows, sitcoms, game shows and movies from The Love Boat to Phantom of the Paradise. But in the 1980s, he just disappeared. This movie is about what happened when filmmaker Stephen Kessler finds him.

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上完12小时班回家，老公正在看这片。原先对名人嗑药之类的纪录片无感，后来一看，咦，这不是上奥普拉的Super Soul Sunday谈过自己戒药经历的那位墨镜哥嘛。于是跟着看下去，觉得哥们儿人很真诚，导演也很真诚，而且画面感还很好，隔一两分钟就有一个镜头可以截下来当壁纸。****四星