Uber-publicist played key role in celebrated 1998 Sundance Film Festival kibosh .
Among the feature documentaries to premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was Brett Morgen's Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Not so fortunate at the same event in 1998 was Nick Broomfield's similar film Kurt & Courtney.
So it was that 150 film executives, reporters and critics assembled just after midnight at the Park City Elks Lodge, Slamdunk's rented home… "They said it could not be done," Cassian Elwes, of the William Morris Agency, told the guests. Then Elwes offered his answer to those who would keep Kurt and Courtney under wraps: an obscene gesture.
Broomfield's latest documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, premieres Monday on HBO.