Salon.com > B movies http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anti-Islam-film director’s real-life “Boogie Nights” story http://www.salon.com/2012/10/09/anti_islam_film_directors_real_life_boogie_nights_story/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/09/anti_islam_film_directors_real_life_boogie_nights_story/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13033897 There was a time when I thought that the ludicrously outlandish situation surrounding the anti-Islam Web video "The Innocence of Muslims" didn't have anything left that it could surprise me with. A bloody, bona fide global diplomatic crisis spawned by a movie with sub–Tommy Wiseau production values, produced by a mysterious, multi-aliased former meth cooker? What additional layers could this rotten onion of an insane story possibly have to offer? I got my answer when writers on the Web began identifying the previously unknown director as the 65-year-old, Santa Monica, Calif.,–based Alan Roberts, a onetime schlock filmmaker who hadn't helmed a movie in 18 years. When I read that name my heart sank just a little bit more, and the entire affair became just a little bit stranger, sadder and more confusing.

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