10 July 2007 >> Philadelphia’s indie paper The Bulletin ran a piece on my film Indoctrinate U today. The article describes several of the cases mentioned in the film.

10 July 2007 @ 8:48AM >> A film industry insider discusses what’s wrong with Hollywood today and relays a telling anecdote:

Not long ago I developed the story of a West Point cadet whose fireman father had been killed on 9-11. This was the same family President Bush praised in his 2006 West Point graduation speech. It was a service family -– a fire officer father who’d given his life, a soldier son, the soldier’s brother, himself an aspiring fireman, and a mother who’d been teaching school the day her husband was killed.

I called a well-placed Hollywood power broker to get the project launched. I told him the story, and pictured the family, rightly, as the best America has. There was a long pause. Then he blurted out, “Wait a minute! Those are the people who elected BUSH!”

Maybe if the powers in Hollywood remembered that not everyone votes or thinks like they do, they’ll be able to find an audience beyond what they’re reaching now.