Paul Bartel

'Paul Bartel' (qv) was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He decided he wanted to direct animated movies when he was 11 and by 13 had spent a summer working at New York's UPA animation studio. He majored in theater arts at UCLA, and received a Fulbright scholarship to study film direction in Rome, producing a short that was presented at the 1962 Venice Fiom Festival. He later was hired by 'Roger Corman' (qv)'s brother, Gene, to direct a low-budget horror featured called _Private Parts (1972)_ (qv). 'Roger Corman' (qv) hired him as a second unit director on _Big Bad Mama (1974)_ (qv), which led to his directing _Death Race 2000 (1975)_ (qv). He could not persuade Corman to finance his pet project, _Eating Raoul (1982)_ (qv). The $500,000 black comedy was made after his parents sold their New Jersey home and gave him the money. Shot in 22 days, mostly weekends, over the course of a year, _Eating Raoul (1982)_ (qv) starred Bartel and 'Mary Woronov' (qv) as gourmet cannibals who lure sex swingers to their apartment, smack them with a skillet, rob them and use the proceeds to buy a restaurant.::P. D. O'Reilly