Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Today it's politically incorrect to call human genetic
abnormalities "freaks." Instead we call them "differently
abled." Either that or "Obama Democrats" (rimshot).
But anyone who researches the lives and times of human
oddities sooner or later comes across the name of filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis.
She is the documentarian-wife of A-list director Robert Zemeckis, and the fact
that they've been married actually for, like, YEARS or something, probably
qualifies them as freaks, as far as the values of the entertainment industry.
Fortunately, Mrs. Z has a job skill that means she doesn't have to sit in a
midway tent on Sunset Boulevard and be gawked at by people. She makes cool
nonfiction, like her previous chronicle of classic striptease artists, BEYOND
THE BURLY Q (which was both a book and a movie).
