The Return of Paul Lovelace

These days Paul Lovelace is a 30-year-old documentary filmmaker in New York City. He travels the country shilling his own motion picture projects – and on his own dime. Last night Lovelace returned to Kansas City (he’s a 1995 graduate of Shawnee Mission South High School) for a screening of the film The Holy Modal Rounders…Bound to Lose at Screenland; Lovelace co-directed the documentary about the famed psychedelic folk duo with Sam Wainwright Douglas and was also one of the film’s four producers.A dozen years ago or so, a Johnson County teenager named Paul Lovelace would occasionally accompany his father, Jack, then editor of the Overland Park-based Sun Newspapers, to press junkets in New York City. Young Lovelace saw firsthand how Hollywood would wine, dine and schmooze reporters from all over the country in order to earn positive media coverage for big-budget films.