TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
7 PM GUILD THEATRE

BIG CITY DICK: RICHARD PETERSON’S FIRST MOVIE
SCOTT MILAM, Ken Harder, Todd Pottinger/SEATTLE, WA
Winner of the Audience Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival, Milam’s engaging film is an affectionate portrait of Richard (Big City Dick) Peterson, an autistic street performer in Seattle. A self-taught musical savant who plays trumpet and piano, Peterson grew up obsessed by 50’s television music (particlarily “Sea Hunt”) and various pop-culture fixations including Johhny Mathis, who he managed to befriend in the course of traveling the country to see him in dozens of shows. An endearing celebrity stalker whose friends range from local radio and tv personalities to Mathis to actor and soul-mate Jeff Bridges, Peterson has managed to produce four albums that quirkily incorporate his 50 years of memorized musical themes, as well as improbably play with Seattle rock bands like The Young Fresh Fellows. Celebrating a life full of joyous ups and difficult downs,“[this] rollicking, breathless documentary. . . is a found epic about an indefatigable American original and an oddly touching tribute to a vanishing vaudevillian spirit. . .few would deny Richard Peterson gives an audience its money's worth.”—VARIETY (120mins.)