Maverick Award Winner from Method Fest 2005 and Midnight Extreme Award from Spain 2006 doesn't read like your basic Sundance entry. That's because this is a movie starring actors with down syndrome from the mind of Crispin Hellion Glover.

Glover has gained a cult following since bursting on the scene as George McFly. When not donning the Thin Man persona from the Charlie's Angels movies can be found playing with rats in the Willard re-make, writing/illustrating books of the macabre, collecting antique medical equipment, attending the Church of Satan, and directing feature films.

Already in post-production on the sequel, Glover will attend all three screenings of "What Is It?" this weekend at the Egyptian Cinemateque conducting a Q&A and signing his books. Before the show will even be an hour-long slide show narrated by Glover of his illustrations and various creations.

Jane Ganahl from the San Francisco Examiner describes "What Is It?": "Scenes with naked women in elephant masks, Shirley Temple, Glover being lowered deus-ex-machina style into a Maxfield Parrish scene...It's like Fellini on psychedelics -- wildly creative but completely twisted."
Don't miss out. General Admission $18.

"What Is It?" & Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Dec. 8-10
8:00pm
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood
323.466.3456

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