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'Client 9': Many Ways to Watch One Film Jigsaw Productions

'Client 9': Many Ways to Watch One Film

The Eliot Spitzer documentary is released on demand and on iTunes before it hits theaters. Is this a good strategy?

Sundance

I am wending my way back home from the Sundance Film Festival, sleep deprived, blood full of hemoglobin from the altitude and ready to leave Utah's 3…

Welfare Dons

Remember the phrase "welfare moms?" It was a phrase designed to attack the very idea of government programs by suggesting that taxpayers all over the…

Heaven and Hell

My Apologies to those who have been wondering where my blog has been.Fact is: I was filming the Tour de France for a documentary on Lance Armstrong I…

The Tour de France

Today I am in Barcelona, following Lance Armstrong's return to the Tour de France for a documentary I am doing for Sony Pictures.  I am not a…

Back and Forth

I just read the blog of fellow Atlantic correspondent Lane Wallace, in which she raised important issues about photographs and quibbled with my digs…

Big Business Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

I recently produced a film, called "Money-Driven Medicine," based on the book of the same name by Maggie Mahar, which looks at the way that our…

Photos Lie - and They Also Tell the Truth. Release Them.

Yesterday, Antonio Taguba described some of the Abu Ghraib photos of detainee abuse that President Obama is refusing to release as a way for arguing…

Gitmo Solutions: Super Size Them!

In recent days, members of Congress have been "shocked, shocked," to use the words and cynical meaning of Claude Rains in "Casablanca," to learn…

Killing Wussification

What's with the ongoing "wussification" name-calling by cable chit-chat provocateurs like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity?  While Hannity and others…

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