biography
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Inventing David Geffen
Susan Lacy the director/producer of the multi Emmy Winning TV series ‘American Masters’ scored well when she convinced the publicity shy Hollywood business magnet and billionaire philanthropist David Geffen to agree to be the subject of her documentary. Lacy known for not shying away from controversy does an excellent job tracing this fascinating man’s rise…
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MARDIK : FROM BAGHDAD TO HOLLYWOOD
Mardik Martin, an Armenian living in Iraq with his wealthy parents, was shipped over to NY in the 1950’s to avoid being conscripted in the Army. Ostensibly he was to go to University here to learn business studies but soon after his arrival there was a Revolution back home and his father was no longer able to send your…
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Matt Shepard Was A Friend of Mine : the retelling of a true story that should never ever have ended like this
It’s hard to grasp the fact that Matthew Shepard should have been celebrating his 37th birthday this year if it hadn’t been for the tragic events of that fateful night 16 years ago on that desolate prairie outside of Laramie in Wyoming. So many of us still think of him as the slight short blond-haired…
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THE UNKNOWN KNOWN
Oscar winning filmmaker and documentarian extraordinaire Errol Morris’s latest ‘subject’ makes for compelling viewing even though he is best summed up by two very simple words ‘smug’ and ‘arrogant’. Donald Henry Rumsfeld seems to have more lives than a cat since he first burst into the public arena in 1962 when he was elected to Congress…
