And Everything Is Going Fine
By the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his adventure of creating the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his or her own. Drawing unstintingly on the facets of his own life, his shows were so hilarious brilliant and moving. His passing came early, in 2004. This compilation of performance and interview footage nails his brilliance that is irreplaceable and idiosyncratic.