I've had siblings and friends in the arts in Manhattan. At a safe distance, their otherworldliness and detachment from convention and straight-line aspiration I've found somewhere between charming and exasperating, but always funny. These are low-rent auteurs on a tear. I've known a thousand of them, and this film gets them. If you can't see the humor in them, you just don't have the gene. The LA sequences were a perfect microcosm of Manhattan arts meets LA television studio.