So, here it is. It's finally happened. The website-about-Keith-Gordon-that's-not-really-about-Keith-Gordon finally has an interview with Keith Gordon.

It all started with this letter. I posted a KG-related question in hopes that someone out there could answer. Over a year later, totally out of the blue, I got a response.

Hi,
The short movie the letter asked about with Cynthia Nixon and Keith Gordon was called ‘It’s Richard I Love’. It was directed and written as an NYU project by Nicole Holofcener, who went on to do ‘Walking and Talking’ and ‘Lovely and Amazing’.
Hope that helps.

And that was it. All of a sudden I'm corresponding with someone who has been involved in making some of my very favorite movies of all time. Awesome.

So, the former teen star of ALL THAT JAZZ, DRESSED TO KILL, CHRISTINE, THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN, and BACK TO SCHOOL, has moved behind the camera to direct movies like THE CHOCOLATE WAR, A MIDNIGHT CLEAR, WAKING THE DEAD, and most recently, THE SINGING DETECTIVE.

Next up is BILLY DEAD with Ethan Hawke, and for this film, the two have put a spin on film finance. Money is being raised through an initial public offering (IP0); they've offered 900,000 shares of preferred stock of Billy Dead, Inc.--a move which may be genius, and may be risky. Gordon says:

If it doesn't work, we get the project back after 180 days and then we go on and go back to the usual dragging it around and trying to get the usual kind of money. But I think it's very exciting. If it works, man, it's going to be a magical new way to make independent movies.

kp: So now how long has it been, and how has it been going? Magical?
kg: It's going well, although, frustratingly, I'm not supposed to do interviews right now about the financial side. We're in what's called the 'quiet period' of the IPO, and under government regulations I'm supposed to shut up about that side of things in the press for right now.

I can talk about how much I love the project, how much I'm looking forward to working with Ethan again, and all that kind of stuff.

kp: How does it compare to fundraising for The Chocolate War?
kg: The Chocolate War was the easiest of all my films to get made. Spoiled me for life. A couple of meetings with Jonathan Krane of M.C.E.G., and I was making a film. If only it was always like that.

kp: So you didn't sell chocolates?
kg: I did sell Chocolates in grade school, but not yet to make a film. But I'll try anything!

By the way, it looks like 'Chocolate War' will finally be out on DVD late this year. At least that's what MGM says.

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