I’ve been wanting to write a love letter to Phillip Seymour Hoffman for a long time now. His death struck me in unexpected ways. I’m not the type who gets too upset about the tragic alcoholic deaths of movie stars I don’t know, but I am the type who sees a lot of...
Life After Manson: Is Forgiveness Possible?
http://youtu.be/3O3FxPVzVu8 It was mid afternoon on one of May's gloomier days when I sat back, coffee in hand, to watch Life After Manson, a new short film directed by Olivia Klaus. I was fully expecting more of the same kind of dramatic hype about the Manson Family....
Finding Out Who Did It in “I Didn’t Do It”
Working on my first feature documentary, I Didn’t Do It, has been wrought with unique challenges due mostly to the ongoing court cases related to the film. Last April I was working as a reporter in Oxford, Mississippi when news broke that ricin had been found in...