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To me, this movie is perfection.

People are voting emotionally.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

This is a vaguely sad documentary about a high-powered Hollywood agent, Shep Gordon and it mostly is about why so many celebrities love him. Despite living a crazy lifestyle when he was younger and making a few morally questionable choices, the thrust of all this is that he IS a stand-up guy (a 'mensch') who does the right thing and lives by a higher moral code. Most of all, his clients and associates really like him and see him as a tremendously decent man. It's also a bit sad as although Gordon has an admirable life in many ways, he is wistful about now having a family of his own.The bottom line is that this is a decent time-passer though I am not sure how much folks who AREN'T in show business will enjoy this. It's well made but the subject matter is only moderately interesting--mostly because his life and friends are so foreign to most viewers.

Shep Gordon has managed many huge acts, first in the music business, and then in other areas ranging from film to cooking. He has also befriended just about every heavyweight in Hollywood. And yet it seems he's managed to do so while still being a good guy, a nice guy, an honorable guy. There are on camera interviews with Alice Cooper (who was Shep's 1st client, and who he has managed for 45 years!), Mick Fleetwood, Michael Douglas, Tom Arnold, Emeril Lagasse, Anne Murray, Mike Meyers, Willie Nelson, Sylvester Stallone and Steven Tyer. But the best interview subject is Shep himself, who has tremendously entertaining, often funny and occasionally tragic anecdotes about his many years in show business. Among the most interesting are the various clever, and sometimes amusingly devious ways Shep would raise his clients' public profiles and help make them stars. There's a genuine wisdom and even a spiritual side to Shep, who befriended the Dali Llama, and spent a week cooking for him as a way of giving back. Ultimately Shep realized, sadly late in the game, that there was more to life than work, and that he was missing out on having kids and a family. Not a 'change your life' film, but it's always engaging, like listening to the most fun and intelligent guest at a great party.

Mike Myers's documentary called supermensch should have been called super schmuck.I started watching this as I was intrigued with some of the history of what I love most (music ) and parts were okay to cool-the guy Shep Gordon thinks he's someone who wants to change the world, wants to help kids -I think cool he finds himself at a hotel and meets Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison -very cool especially Janis.. but he is a drug dealer and only becomes a music manager as a cover for the drugs -first strike as that is a very stupid reason to join anything in music if not insulting to anyone who cares about music.Later he takes on Alice Cooper who's music has always been mediocre to me , nothing deep , moving, innovative or inspiring but I was trying to give the guys a chance (Shep and Alice).The story goes on to tell about how Shep does all these shallow gimmicks to get Alice noticed -chasing him around with fake photographers who had no film in their cameras to make him seem famous to Alice holding out money over a crowd to get them to stand up to his music to make it appear his music is generating excitement - any chance of me respecting or admiring these two goes out the door -they are no different than shallow talentless fame hungry vile beings like Lady caca today.NO mention of how music saved their lives, gave them hope, was a place where they shared courageous truths, no mention of inspiration or empowerment which is what great music does and is about! but worst of all is this subhuman Shep Gordon puts a live chicken on stage who must have been terrified and Alice cooper being the other subhuman in this situation throws the chicken into the crowd who rips the chicken to pieces alive and Alice than wipes the blood all over him-that made me turn this "movie" off what a load of utter garbage! a innocent being was terrified and brutally murdered all so Alice pooper can become famous ?this is NOT what music is about or ANY art.Art is sacred whether it be a silly comedy that makes you laugh or a song that moves your soul and empowers you art is the ambrosia of life and non humans are the living angels on this planet.We humans are the masses who are beyond asses and many are vile, some are magnificent.If you love music , if you know the beauty and epic brilliance of non humans you will loath this film.it is shallow and cruel and glorifies subhumans who not only defecate on something as amazing as music but on humans and non humans.

. . . as Chicken Little used to say. Film director Michael Myers gets a bunch of his buddies to pay homage on-screen to 21st Century Hawaii's version of 20th Century Paris' Gertrude Stein. However, unlike Stein's salon for intellectuals, what the denizens of Hollywood producer\music artist manager Shep Gordon have in common is that almost ALL of them are filthy rich. They can personally thank Gordon for much of their lucre, as well as their fame. Unfortunately, Gordon himself has been at the forefront of blurring the line between fame and infamy during the past 50 years. As he observes toward the end of SUPERMENSCH, "There's nothing I've ever seen in my life with Fame that's healthy--it makes it hard to survive." This film makes frequent references to ill-fated Gordon intimates, including Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix, and Teddy Pendergrass. The other constant themes are Gordon's thwarted obsession to have a biological child of his own (who could inherit his "$20 million" digs on Maui), and Bad Karma (which he attempts to ward off by sleeping in the same bed his role model the Dalai Lama reclined in at a New York City luxury hotel). All this is enough to prompt viewers to shout at the screen, "But hey, Shep, WHOSE idea was it for Alice Cooper to start slaughtering defenseless chickens on-stage as part of his "act"??!