Quentin Tarantino's Visit to Knoxville...

Tongues wagged and message boards... er, messaged about Quentin Tarantino, writer/director of cosmic import, and his alleged presence in Knoxville last week; purported sightings abounded. But we have the scoop, from a member of the local service industry (no, not that kind of service; get thee to a nunnery) who had the chance to spend some q.t. with Q.T. A film buff himself, our mole had a chance to grill him about projects current and past. 

Tarantino had reportedly been holed up in the top floor of the downtown Marriott, following up on his location scout's vetting of a Sevier County property for use in his forthcoming directorial effort, Django Unchained. An enormously popular spaghetti western from 1966 about a deadly gunslinger who famously dragged his own coffin behind him as he wandered through oppressive desert heat, the original Django inspired literally dozens of similarly-titled knockoffs and made an international superstar of its leading man, Franco Nero. Tarantino reportedly said the new movie will feature the original Django character (unlike many of the knockoffs, which merely cashed in on the name), but featuring a new story (written by the QT himself.)