KUMAR
My
88 Year Old Best Friend
| Created: 07/25/2006 |
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06/09/2010
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By: Staff |
The short vinette "Kumar: My 88 Year Old Best Friend" provides a unique window into the
fascinating and unlikely friendship between eighty-eight year old cult
film icon Kumar Pallana (The
Terminal, Royal
Tenenbaums, Rushmore)
and thirty-year old indie label proprietor and PR/management guru Dave
Brown from Holiday Matinee.
Many mistakenly believe
that Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson "discovered" Kumar
when they plucked him out of seeming obscurity from behind the counter
of his eclectic cafe. But in reality Kumar's hardly new to show business,
in fact he's a world renowned vaudevillian entertainer who once shared
a stage with the Rat Pack and performed on classic television shows
like the Mickey Mouse Club, Ed Sullivan and Captain Kangaroo.
| NERD
NOTE: Before he was an actor, Kumar was the
proprietor of a local coffee shop called The Cosmic Cafe
in Dallas, which was a frequent hangout for director Anderson
and co-writer/star Owen Wilson. |
It's been over forty years since Kumar took his signature act, a
gravity defying plate-spinning routine, on the road. That is, until
now...
Now, his young friend Dave Brown has booked a one-of-a-kind, unconventional
tour set to play rock venues, senior centers, state prisons, dive
bars, comedy clubs, wrestling matches, yoga classes and everything
in-between.
Dave Brown's driven by a sincere desire to show the world the Kumar
that he knows, the one who spins a story as well as a plate, who
talks of his lessons on love in such a romantic way it would make
Casanova blush...this is the Kumar Pallana Dave Brown knows, and
by documenting the tour for a feature film, the one Brown hopes to
capture.
But what this film will eventually discover is far more than just
the 88-year old returning to the stage, and it's even far more than
the indefinable magic of Kumar Pallana. Rather, it's the simple magic
of Brown and Pallana's unique friendship, a friendship that's stronger
than mere words, one that transcends age and shatters stereotypes.
This film will reveal the Kumar who Dave Brown wants you to understand,
and why it's so important that you do.
The journey will be full of unexpected twists and turns, and will
bring to light two vastly different men on entirely different paths
with freakishly similar destinations.
KUMAR: MY 88-YEAR OLD BEST FRIEND is for everyone who has ever had
a mentor or an unlikely friend, for those who have dreamt of sharing
their lives with others and for those who love adventures.
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