"The tragedy is we're all cheated out of a great documentary, and we're stuck forever with this greeting card instead of a dark fucking novel that could have been a masterpiece." "To me, there's a tragic aspect to this film, and it's not because Tiny Tim becomes a joke and drops dead of a heart attack," Burnett says. The diary entries, in particular, convey some of Tiny Tim's deepest thoughts about his career, faith and love life and the internal conflicts that all three created, but Burnett believes the film doesn't dig deep enough to truly understand the artist. It also delves into Tiny's life through his diary entries, read onscreen by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and shows personal photographs and home videos that Martell says he obtained and arranged, giving the filmmakers "access to the Tiny Tim rabbit hole." King For a Day, directed by Johan Von Sydow of Memento Films and distributed through Juno Films, examines Tiny Tim's career and personal life through interviews with other notable names who knew and worked with him, such as Wavy Gravy and Laugh In creator George Schlatter. "How do you work in this thing that actually took place and developed over the space of almost two decades?" "They faced the same issue I had writing the book," Martell says. The documentary fails to address what Burnett believes are key moments in Tiny Tim's story in the latter part of the singer's life leading up to his death in 1996 at the age of 64. He and one of the film's producers, Justin Martell, who wrote the Tiny Tim biography Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim, on which King for a Day is based, confirm that interviews with Burnett were filmed but didn't make it into the film released in theaters. So surreal to be at a point in my life where the first ever doc about Tiny is playing Dallas and I'm not going."īurnett worked as Tiny Tim's manager from 1984 until 1996, produced the last two of his albums including 1996's Girl - recorded with the Grammy-winning Denton polka band Brave Combo - and founded his official fan club. "I've had three different people offer me free passes to the Tiny screening," Burnett writes in a text message. Burnett says he received several invitations to the film festival screening but he declined the opportunity to sit in the audience because he has issues with the film's final cut. Dallas music maven and 14 Records store owner Bucks Burnett dedicated a large part of his life to the career of the eccentric and incomparable Tiny Tim, the mischaracterized "novelty" musician who became one of music's most uniquely eclectic pop stars.Ī new documentary called Tiny Tim: King for a Day is now in theaters and was screened during the recent USA Film Festival at the Angelika Film Center.
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