The Last Word: Cuban on His ’80s Deep Ellum Days and Throwing ‘Epic Parties’ in a Chuck E. Cheese Storage Space

“We weren’t inspired by anything. We just wanted to try to meet girls and make some money.”

Mark Cuban
…in “Round Pegs Square Holes,” a documentary screening Friday at the Dallas International Film Festival at the Texas Theatre, via The Dallas Morning News

Cuban describes his “early experiments in entrepreneurship by renting a former Chuck E. Cheese storage space on Elm Street to throw epic parties,” writes Sarah Hepola in The Dallas Morning News. He joins Russell Hobbs, founder of Theatre Gallery, along with Billy Bob Thornton, Rev. Horton Heat, and members of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians and the Old 97’s in a documentary “love letter” to Deep Ellum’s gritty 1980s “golden era.” Read more in the DMN.

Image: Screenshot/Round Pegs Square Holes – Documentary Trailer/Youtube.