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Robbie Rogers on Producing Doc Exploring Former Soccer Star Tony Powell’s Mysterious Disappearance: ‘It Was Very Much Rooted in Homophobia’


Robbie Rogers talks about producing 'The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel,' a new doc about former soccer star Tony Powell's mysterious disappearance.

When soccer player Robbie Rogers was with the LA Galaxy, he lived just a couple of blocks away from the rundown Holloway Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Little did he know – or anyone for that matter –that the longtime motel manager and its only full-time resident was Tony Powell, a former British soccer star who mysteriously disappeared after retiring from the game about 40 years ago. The film, directed by Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman and produced by Rogers, follows Powell, now 77, as he moved out of the motel two years ago because it was being closed down and converted to temporary housing for homeless individuals.

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