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Posted May. 7, 2007,
Paul Zaloom, L.A. Puppetmaster, Takes on Dante in New Film
By Ann Magnuson
Our first official L.A. Man is a New York transplant -- the immensely talented and whip-smart Paul Zaloom ,whose new film, Dante's Inferno plays at the Silver Lake Film Festival tonight, Monday, May 7th at 7 p.m. (Info here.)
Zaloom's brainy and hilarious toy-theater-meets-Irwin-Allen-blockbuster reimagines Dante's descent into Hell as a modern day nightmare, one available to view on CNN any day of the week! (Never was the brilliant Italian poet more relevant!) Paul Zaloom is probably best known to the world at large as the wacky scientist Beakman from the CBS Saturday morning kid's show Beakman's World, but others know him as the profoundly relevant and supremely clever puppeteer who has been wow-ing underground and overground audiences for years with his theatrical wizardry.
But let's allow Paul to speak for himself, in this email Q&A we did last week before Dante's Inferno first played at the Silver Lake Film Festival on Friday. (Last show is tonight so get over to the Los Feliz 3 at 1822 Vermont Avenue by 7 p.m!)