Oh, to be a fly on the wall when writer-director Louis C.K. slouched into the cool, vaguely Asian-themed office space of some Paramount bigwig with the pitch for his film Pootie Tang. In 20 words or ...

If you’ve watched Louis C.K.’s half-hour dramedy on FX, you might be wondering why this brilliant stand-up comedian hasn’t tried to direct more often. Louis has total creative control over the show, ...

Pootie tanks; a must to avoid. Running time: 82 minutes. Rated PG-13 (much sexual suggestion and drug use). At the Empire, the Union Square, the Harlem USA, others. THE villain of “Pootie Tang,” a ...

“Pootie Tang” is not the falsetto exclamation of a birdbrain cartoon canary, nor is it the marketing moniker of a new instant breakfast tonic ingested by astronauts. “Pootie Tang” is instead the title ...

June 29, 2001: a great day in the history of cinema. Opening simultaneously at the multiplex, two movies pushed at the outer limit of big-studio weirdness, each in its own way an epistemological essay ...

Checking In With the Cast of Pootie TangWhatever happened to predictability, the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV…and the cast and crew of the cult hit, Pootie Tang? Released 10 […] ...

Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out ...