But Crazy in A Good Way

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The trilogy of films that Glover is working on isn't quite finished, but he has shown part of What Is It? in small theaters around the country, along with a slide show and presentation. Most of the actors in the film have Down syndrome, and the images supposedly make Luis Bunuel's films look like Home Alone. He's particularly fond of his second film, written by an actor in the first who died of cystic fibrosis. Glover's CD and four novels (which are old books he cut up and drew on to create new, creepier stories) are on the fringe of even art-world culture. But he says he has learned to separate art from his acting and, more important, his interviews, in which the only art he employs is what he calls the clarity art. The clarity art seems to entail making a lot of statements like "There are things that are so sensitive that if I talked about them in a public forum, I would be looked upon badly. I would be called un-American. It would be a bad, bad thing, so it's better for me not to say it." Maybe he is a little nuts.