Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment:

• A new documentary opening locally today has a Mahoning Valley connection.

“Show Me the Father” is a faith-based film about the importance of paternal figures in a children’s lives and how earthly fathers shape one’s relationship with the heavenly father.

One of the five stories in the film is the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction account of the connection between Sherman Smith and Deland McCullough.

Smith graduated from Youngstown’s former North High School, played football at Miami University and had an eight-year career as a NFL running back with the Seattle Seahawks and San Diego Chargers. He later went into coaching and when he was running back coach at his alma mater, he recruited McCullough, a Campbell Memorial High School standout.

McCullough went to Miami and played football for the Cincinnati Bengals until he suffered a career-ending knee injury. Like his mentor, McCullough went into coaching.

McCullough was born in Pittsburgh and adopted as an infant by a woman in Youngstown. In 2017 at age 45, McCullough tracked down his biological mother, who was a 16-year-old Youngstown girl when she got pregnant.

Who was the father? An 18-year-old Sherman Smith. The mother never told Smith she was pregnant, and Smith first learned he had another child when McCullough called him.

ESPN shared the amazing story in a 2018 “E:60” episode.

In the clips available from the film, Smith says, “I want to make a difference in the lives of young people the way my father made a difference in my life.” Ohio State star Eddie George, who Smith coached with the Tennessee Titans, says of Smith, “He was feeding our spirit about what it means to be a godly man.”

“Show Me the Father,” directed by Rick Altizer, opens today at Regal Boulevard Centre in Niles.

• Pabstolutely 14 will serve up a dozen bands on Saturday at The Royal Oaks in Youngstown.

The music lineup starts at noon with the Ferel Cats, who will be followed by Whiskey Pilot, Punk Wilie, Grey Walker, Brood X, Trash Mountain, Daggrs, Feckweed, Garter Shake, Pillars and Action Camp before Coinmonster’s 10:30 p.m. closing set on the outdoor stage.

Admission is $10 at the door and proceeds benefit Golden String Inc., a nonprofit organization that works with adults with disabilities and provides an adult daycare environment.

• Cleveland Museum of Art will tell a story that spans 1,500 years and three continents with an exhibition opening in November.

“Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Secret Mountain” has been in the works since 2015, when CMA reached an agreement with the National Museum of Cambodia. The Cambodia museum sent pieces from “Krishna Lifting Moutn Govardhan,” a broken stone sculpture in the Cleveland collection, and Cleveland sent pieces from a sculpture in Cambodia’s collection.

Through their mutual cooperation, both works have been restored, and the new restorations will be on view for the first time.

“Revealing Krishna” features the two monumental sculpture and four digital galleries, including a full-surround, mixed-reality HoloLens 2 tour that takes visitors through the story of the Cleveland Krishna.

Four of the monumental stone sculptures of Hindu deities from Phnom Da, or “Stone Mountain,” will be in Cleveland, and all eightwill be seen together for the first time, reunited digitally in the form of elegant, interactive, life-size 3D models.

The exhibition will be on display Nov. 14 through Jan. 30, 2020.

Reserved, timed-entry tickets are on sale now for members and will go on sale to the general public 10 a.m. Sept. 20 at www.clevelandart.org.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com