Confessions Of A Chinese Theatre Superhero
Longtime readers are probably aware of our unhealthy obsession with the costumed performers who assemble each day in front of the Chinese Theatre to offer star-struck tourists the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a Polaroid taken with someone who may or may not bear a resemblance to their favorite comic book or movie character, an interest that deepens each time a member of the Walk of Fame's improvised Hollywood Justice League runs afoul of local authorities and draws the muffled reprobation of their masked, law-abiding peers on the evening news.
So you can imagine how excited we were to see the new trailer for Confessions of a Superhero, a documentary about the people inside those ill-fitting spandex unitards that might actually satisfy our weird hero-jones in between the maddeningly infrequent times Angry Chewbacca gets liquored up and goes on a tour-guide headbutting spree. Or one of the Dueling Jack Sparrows gets so upset over his competitor's craft-debasing nonchalance about pirate-verisimilitude that he pulls out his dreadlocks with his bare hands. Really, we're not that picky about the specifics if it draws the KCAL9 van to the scene of the crime.