Dateline 03/01/01

Ron Mann's new documentary

CONFESSIONS OF A HOTRODDIN', PINSTRIPIN', KUSTOMIZIN', TEENAGE ICON!!!

Ron Mann is the coolest documentarian on this Planet. Check out some of his most recent subjects .. "COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL".. about Comic Book Creators and their influences on our kulture then he did "TWIST".... a Post WWII through Late Sixties Dance Craze movie and his most recent movie still showing world wide "GRASS"  which addresses the lighter side of our Government Lies and History of Propaganda Against Marijuana.   

What next you ask ? Ed "BIG DADDY" ROTH and HOT RODS... How Kewl is that Finksters yep you got it..this is it man ... 

LIONS GATE GEARS UP FOR MANN'S HOT ROD PIC (Toronto Film Festival) Lions Gate Films proudly announces the acquisition of "Confessions of a Hotroddin', Pinstripin', Kustomizin', Teenage Icon" from Ron Mann the acclaimed director of "Grass", "Twist", and "Comic Book Confidential".

Mann's homage to speed freaks centers on Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, the subject of Tom Wolfe's book, "The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby". Roth gained fame in the 60s with his sculpted custom cars "The Beatnik Bandit", "Mysterion", "The Outlaw" and for the rebel cult figure Rat Fink and other eye-popping monsters.