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Watch This Documentary Before the Glamour is Gone

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 The Mighty Sparrow on stage at the Royal Theatre - Photo by Weir From my Huffington Post feature about the Mighty Sparrow and Lord Superior in the movie The Glamour Boyz Again -  http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/stephen-weir/a-documentary-to-be-seen-_b_5767108.html Toronto's  Caribbean Tales International Film Festival  kicked-off its ninth annual season last night at the Royal Theatre with a world premier screening of a new documentary about the  Mighty Sparrow  (Dr. Slinger Francisco) and Lord Superior (Andrew Marcano). Once dubbed the Calypso King of the World, an obviously failing Mighty Sparrow appeared on stage after the first showing of the  Glamour Boyz Again: The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Superior on the Hilton Rooftop . Written and directed by American author/filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn, the feature length movie follows a very simple format: two famous aging Calypsonians on a roof with one guitar and a bucket of Caribe ale. The two men are on top of Trinidad's s