By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (Monday, August 17, 2009)(Part one of two) - The second annual West Hollywood International Film Festival’s premier evening fell apart in a fiasco of Fellini-esque proportions on August 5.
Festival promoters switched locations 24 hours before the premier event (to Hollywood), played fast and loose with the premier night’s schedule of events and stopped the headline film before its finish, alienating the high-profile set of Gay Movement leaders acting as panelists scheduled to discuss it and causing them, along with 80 percent of the audience, to stalk out in disgust.
Next week: Claims by filmmakers that Mr. Deluca tried to extort money from them, accusations of fraudulent claims made to raise money or make “deals,” and charges of double-dealing.
