This essay originally appeared on The Huffington Post for the launch of the New York section and was recorded by WFUV for the award-winning “Cityscape” program. You can find a recording of me reading it for the July 11, 2009 show here! Merci! When I went to France one summer, I came back with a …
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Roger Ross Williams hated his job as a television producer. Desperate for something different, he went to the Catskills, N.Y. home of his neighbor, Elinor Burkett, an author and journalist who also has a home in Zimbabwe. "’Save me,’" Burkett jokingly recalls Williams said to her, to an audience in the Catskills in early 2009. …
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You know that scene in Wayne’s World where Wayne and Garth are really excited to meet Alice Cooper backstage, and all the shock-rocker wants to do is talk about Native American history? Wayne, undeterred, yells out: “Does this guy know how to party or what!” Talking to Seth Green reminded me of that scene — …
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While it may seem like a frivolous time to ask anyone for money to make a film, Jeff Dowd, the real life inspiration for the beloved chronically laid-back character “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski, assures aspiring Coen Brothers that even in a plummeting economy independent filmmakers can secure funding. I caught up with Dowd …
Former Lehman banker Ami Horowitz and filmmaker Michael Moore have a fair amount in common. They share the same film sales agent. They both spend time in the Bromley, a 23-story condominium on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. They both produce documentaries. In fact, Horowitz spent the last two years producing a Moore-style documentary (down to …