A film-maker obsesses over the Oscar-winning actor/songwriter in this slightly creepy documentary. Filled with vintage clips of Paul Williams singing his now-standard easy listening hits and appearances on Match Game, the Gong Show, and being flung from an airplane a day after winning the Oscar for Barbra Streisand's hit 'Evergreen'; the film-maker awkwardly fawns over the performer, begs to have a 'sleep-over', and bonds with him over plates of calamari. I think the film was supposed to be humorous, but it comes off like Paul Williams: Still Alive: The Blooper Reel. Trying to paint Paul Williams as somewhat difficult, it seemed Paul Williams was just as fatigued filming the 2-year shoot as I was watching it.
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