Blind Item #15 - A Dancing Boy Blind Item

Just wanted to share something fun (on the d/l for right now) that might be of interest: a friend in town, who is involved with one of the local film festivals, asked me to write and make something for it. I've been getting kind of restless focusing on projects that are at least months out, and have been wanting to get back into it one way or the other asap, so it sounded like fun. The story is: I've gone undercover as a homeless man to expose corruption, drug and sex trafficking, and money laundering in the area. Meanwhile, certain Very Bad Men in a particular industry town have gotten wind of me speaking out at Crazy Days and Nights, and have hired a Hollywood hit man to take care of me, and kidnap the teen boy who has been cast as the dancing boy, then sell him into the Hollywood underground (where he'll be passed around).

Do you remember that crack team of former Hollywood kids connected with my French billionaire patron? Fortunately, a couple of them, at least, are here too. Basically, they and the hit man (and maybe someone else) will be reprising roles they played in a particular movie back in the day.

Clue number 1? In my first encounter with the hit man, I am panhandling (in disguise) outside the local corner shop. He comes out and tells me to "get a job" when I ask him for change. (Here comes the clue.) After he walks past, I take out an 80s walky talky and tell my teammates: "he's here."

Clue number 2? When my teen likeness and I are cornered in the woods, the hit man (who in the earlier feature was a different kind of bad guy) - in this case brandishing a hunting knife rather than a gun - describes in some detail what he intends to do to me (cut my tongue out for talking, among other things) before he leaves me to die. He did basically the same thing to the young lead of the earlier movie. He said, and will say again, "do you know what I'm gonna do to you boy?" (Spoiler alert: said former young lead swoops in, ninja like, his former screen sidekick nearby.)

Clue number 3? The hit man had roles in multiple productions by a legendary director, beginning with a war movie, but maybe most famously as a candidate for high office.