Paul Williams Still Alive (2012)

Release Date: June 8th, 2012

Director: Stephen Kessler

Writers: Stephen Kessler

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Barbra Streisand, Burt Reynolds, Colin Reboy, Dick Clark, Jack Klugman, John Travolta, Johnny Carson, Karen Carpenter, Kermit the Frog, Paul Williams, Peter Lawford, Robert Blake, Telly Savalas, Tony Randall

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Musical

MPAA Rating: Not available

Official site: Not available

Studio: Not available

In the 1970s, Paul Williams won Grammys and an Academy Award. He wrote many #1 songs, from Barbara Streisand’s “Evergreen” to the Carpenters’
“We’ve Only Just Begun,” as well as Kermit the Frog’s biggest hit, “The Rainbow Connection.” He starred in a Brian De Palma movie, put out his own hit records and albums, was [...]In the 1970s, Paul Williams won Grammys and an Academy Award. He wrote many #1 songs, from Barbara Streisand’s “Evergreen” to the Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun,” as well as Kermit the Frog’s biggest hit, “The Rainbow Connection.” He starred in a Brian De Palma movie, put out his own hit records and albums, was a guest on The Tonight Show fifty times, is the president of ASCAP… and you may have never heard of him. He was the singer / actor / songwriter that emotional, alienated teenage boys all over the world wanted to be – a sex symbol before MTV, when sex symbols could be 5″2 and sing songs about loneliness with the Muppets. One of those boys was Steve Kessler, a chubby kid from Queens. Thirty years later, Kessler discovered something amazing: not only was Paul Williams still alive, no one had ever tried to make a documentary about him. A wistful musical journey that will introduce a new generation to Williams’ soulful classics, “Paul Williams Still Alive” is the charmingly self-narrated story of Stephen Kessler’s lifelong obsession with the former superstar, and what happens when the nostalgic filmmaker finally catches up with him.