Roger Rudick's The Ketchup King

Larry, a budding screenwriter from Pittsburgh, was happy working in a video store until his uncle Eli, head of the Ketchup-making Mafia clan, decided it's time for Larry to "get a real job or join the family business!" Larry begs Lance Boyle, the greatest literary agent in Western Pennsylvania, to find him a writing gig. Boyle send him to a New York theater company called "The Purple Project," where Larry rewrites "The Ketchup King," his autobiographical movie script about breaking out of the Mafia, for the stage. Okay. So it's theater, not movies, but it pays, right? And if the play hits, maybe they can make it a movie later. Only problem is Sal Pepper, the flamboyant manager of the Purple Project, thinks breaking out of the Mafia is a metaphor for coming out of the closet. Touted as Joe Manganiello's [IMDB HBO's True Blood - he's the werewolf] first voice acting role as Black Dildo, we're very lucky that this pearl from Pittsburgh, PA has survived the tests of time and cheap tape conversion and storage. ||| Directed by Roger Rudick.

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