When a 35 year old jazz musician suddenly abandons music to become a ventriloquist, the racially and sexually over-the-top act that results seemed commercially doomed from the outset. "The Hymie And Stymie Show" is a film that chronicles Dan Axelrod's journey into the art of belly talking from its inspired beginnings through its tragic demise. It also offers a first look at an act that was simply too controversial for the politically correct 1980s.—Dan Axelrod