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THE ROOM Star/Director Tommy Wiseau Returning to St. Louis in July!!

By Tom Stockman | May 28, 2015

“You don’t understand anything, man. Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!

There will be thousands of plastic spoons flying through the air in the Tivoli’s main screen at the end of July. Grown men in tuxedoes will be throwing footballs three feet away from each other in the Tivoli’s lobby. What’s going on and who will that strange man with the sunglasses, odd accent and black stringy hair be that everyone will be crowded around?

Forget JURASSIC WORLD and MAGIC MIKE XXL! The big movie news of the summer (at least in St. Louis area) is the return of the one and only Tommy Wiseau, the amazing triple-threat talent writer/director/star of THE ROOM!

St. Louis-area fans of THE ROOM will have the opportunity to meet the film’s talented, handsome, and charismatic star, writer and director when he comes to Landmark’s Tivoli Theater here (6350 Delmar in The Loop) for midnight shows of his film the weekend of July 31 and August 1st. He was here three years ago and brought a big box of THE ROOM T-Shirts, DVD’s, posters, ‘Johnny’ bobbleheads and more to sign for his legion of adoring fans. Hopefully he’ll have even more fun THE ROOM stuff with him this year.

Tommy’s new short film THE NEIGHBORS will show before the feature.THE NEIGHBORS is a pilot for a sitcom written, produced, directed by, and starring Tommy Wiseau in his first such creative excursion since his 2003 cult classic THE ROOM. It is set in an apartment building and revolves around the lives of the various tenants and their interactions with the “manager”, Charlie, played by Wiseau.

If it’s like 2012, Tommy will set up in the Tivoli’s lobby around 9:30 or 10pm for an autograph session. This will be followed by a Q&A, an audience interactive game (with maybe a chance to win a DOGEEE! Toy!), a screening of his new short THE NEIGHBORS, and a midnight showing of THE ROOM. It’ll be the cultural event of the St. Louis summer!