Author: James Kleinmann
It’s rare that a producer’s name becomes as familiar to the public as the stars of the films he or she makes, but in the late 1970s and ’80s, Allan Carr was a regular talk show guest and caftan wearing celebrity in his own right. A new fast paced, fascinating documentary by Emmy winner Jeffrey Schwarz (‘I Am Divine’, ‘Tab Hunter Confidential’) follows the highs and lows of Carr’s colourful career featuring interviews with those who knew him best.
‘The Fabulous Allan Carr’
Starting out in the entertainment industry as a talent booker for Hugh Hefner’s television show, Carr soon became a talent manager representing the likes of Ann-Margaret, Peter Sellers, Tony Curtis and Mama Cass Elliot. Following Carr’s legendary New York subway station premiere party for ‘Tommy’, he gained a reputation for being able to launch a movie with a splash.
It’s rare that a producer’s name becomes as familiar to the public as the stars of the films he or she makes, but in the late 1970s and ’80s, Allan Carr was a regular talk show guest and caftan wearing celebrity in his own right. A new fast paced, fascinating documentary by Emmy winner Jeffrey Schwarz (‘I Am Divine’, ‘Tab Hunter Confidential’) follows the highs and lows of Carr’s colourful career featuring interviews with those who knew him best.
‘The Fabulous Allan Carr’
Starting out in the entertainment industry as a talent booker for Hugh Hefner’s television show, Carr soon became a talent manager representing the likes of Ann-Margaret, Peter Sellers, Tony Curtis and Mama Cass Elliot. Following Carr’s legendary New York subway station premiere party for ‘Tommy’, he gained a reputation for being able to launch a movie with a splash.
- 7/21/2017
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With entourage in tow, Brett Ratner will attend Wednesday's Outfest premiere of The Fabulous Allan Carr — Jeffrey Schwarz's new documentary about the caftan-wearing Grease mastermind who was run out of Hollywood in 1989 after producing the Snow White Oscars debacle. (Snow White broke her decades-long silence to The Hollywood Reporter in 2013.)
A keen chronicler of some of Hollywood's greatest camp triumphs, Schwarz next tackles one of the most beloved "bad" movies of all time in Goddess: The Showgirls Chronicles. (Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven has given his blessing and already contributed a tell-all interview about the 1995...
A keen chronicler of some of Hollywood's greatest camp triumphs, Schwarz next tackles one of the most beloved "bad" movies of all time in Goddess: The Showgirls Chronicles. (Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven has given his blessing and already contributed a tell-all interview about the 1995...
- 7/12/2017
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jeffrey Schwarz, a specialist in light gay-showbiz documentaries like I Am Divine and Tab Hunter Confidential, looks behind the scenes in The Fabulous Allan Carr, profiling a producer-manager whose considerable achievements have probably been overshadowed by his role in the great Rob Lowe/Snow White Oscar debacle of 1989. Benefiting from ample interview footage of this colorful self-promoter, the entertaining doc lacks the broad appeal of the Divine film but will play well to fest auds with a strong interest in musical theater and 1970s/'80s Tinseltown lore.
Friends from high school and college remember Carr (born Alan Solomon) as uncommonly gregarious;...
Friends from high school and college remember Carr (born Alan Solomon) as uncommonly gregarious;...
- 6/30/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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