Horns and Halos is a documentary that "captures the unlikely connection of three men -- a U.S. president, a discredited author and an underground publisher -- whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a book."
Horns and Halos follows the late Jim Hatfield author of "Fortunate Son," and Sander Hicks of Soft Skull Press, as they quest to re-release Fortunate Son after ST. Martin press pulled it from the stores after pressure from the Bush cabal.
Done on the cheap, it still draws you into the passion, frustration, and anger that dogs Hicks and Hatfield to the tragic end.
The doc also interviews the reporter who broke the story about Hatfield’s attempted murder conviction, literary figures involved in the resurrection of Fortunate Son, and Mark Crispin Miller. The doc crew periodically checked in with Hicks and Hatfield through 2000, and ultimately to what I feel was the climax for them at the 2001 Chicago Book expo where Hatfield OUTS his high-level sources. Following the expo Hatfield has a opening-up that centers on his 2-year old daughter to the doc crew that broke my heart.
Here is a website if you want some more info and maybe it is playing near you.
http://www.hornsandhalos.com/Here is the trailer.
http://www.hornsandhalos.com/trailer/trailer.htmlIf you get the chance....SEE IT.
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