Movie Review: American Gypsy Story: Cher's Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, is one of the songs on the soundtrack in this fascinating documentary by young Indian director/writer Jasmine Dellal. Along with the Irish, I have had a long time interest in all things Gypsy. The seemingly free, mysterious, exotic and outsider quality of their edgy lives has a certain draw for me. Hollywood has long perpetuated these myths and helped to continue the terrible discrimination that these people live with even today. Did you know that 1.5 million gypsies were sent to the camps during the Holocaust? The story weaves interesting facts, legend and history with the real life story of the Marks family from Spokane Washington who spent 11 years in court vs. the City of Spokane for illegal search and seizure of property, assets and a despoiling of their selves. I learned a lot, had my consciousness raised and feel I am generally better for having seen this very interesting film. Our movie experience was enhanced (my friend Gail accompanied me, as she does for many of the high quirky factor movies) by arriving early and finding only two other people in the theater. We started to chat with them and it turned out they were gypsies! Fifteen minutes later, by film's start, there were about 20 people in the theater and over half of them were gypsy (they all knew each other) and the rest were Gadje (gypsy equivalent of gentile). This made the movie experience even better and gave me a new idea for a category (see below). Acting: Real people, charming the pants off of us. Pets: Livestock in file footage. Visual Art: Lots of wonderful tacky stuff gotten in Las Vegas gift shops. Soundtrack: Terrific Audience: half gypsy Quirky Meter: 8 Oscar Worthy: Could be included in documentary category, but won't. Length: 80 minutes LOBO HOWLS: 7