Monthly Archives: July 2009

This is the 50 minute documentary I made on the pharmaceutical industry’s influence over how doctors prescribe medicine. Money Talks: Profits Over Patient Safety talks to doctors, lawyers, journalists, and drug reps about how drug companies not only market drugs and conceal their hazards, the FDA allows drug companies to conduct and report their own findings.

As the health care debate soldiers on, the monopoly on our medicines must be confronted, and real reform begins with breaking up this network of corporatized drugging.

A decade ago, when it was still too outlaw to even act threatened by it, my show Toolz of the New School attended the Gay Pride Parade in the West Village and committed a crime more outlawed than sodomy: wedding homos. Saint Reverend Jen ceremoniously christens several gay and lesbian couples in a humorous and colorful ceremony that has surprisingly powerful emotional results. This might just be the coolest thing we ever did.

Satire is a delicious dish, best served in person.  From the unruly Australian show “Chaser’s War on Everything,” Torture Memo writer John Yoo gets an awkward question during class.

This is Fargo with your Daily Roo:  Fargo is caught howling in his sleep.

Compiling footage for my upcoming doc on Rudy Giuliani, I ordered a DVD of the basic cable movie about him starring James Woods, Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story.  Press Play Connection did not send me what I ordered.

In the ensuing viral wave from Dave Carroll’s YouTube video “United Breaks Guitars,” and its impressive impact on United Airlines, the full meme experience is not complete without yet another re-edit of Hitler losing it from the movie Downfall.

For the uninitiated, this movie scene has been re-subtitled many times to show Hitler blowing up over losing his saved games on Play Station 3, because the ending of Watchmen was changed from the comic, and upon hearing that Michael Jackson died. It has even been the topic of its own mashups.

Pilot, Patriot, Profane Grandfather.

My grandfather, U.S. Air Force Colonel Bruce Hinton (Retired), just passed away at almost 90 years old. He was a successful pilot and officer while quite young, and distinguished himself in aviation history in the Korean War. I am deeply thankful that the History Channel did this piece on his famous dogfight — for interviewing him in his waning years, for the effective use of animation and attention to detail in this story, and for helping his memory live on.

Svetlana is a Russian whore with an exclusive clientele – like the President of Iran.  But between running her house of pleasures and raising her own family, Svetlana may just be the sanest person in her world.

I am psyched to be editing this brilliant series by Iris Bahr as it starts shooting this week for a cable network.