Pat Dollard

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Patrick Dollard is an American documentary filmmaker. In the 1990s he was a Hollywood talent agent, manager, and producer most known for guiding the career of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh.

Dollard became known as a Hollywood conservative in the mid-90s, and is now known as a conservative filmmaker, blogger, and pundit.

His work, as well as life-long struggle with drugs and alcohol, has been discussed in U.S. News and World Report, Variety, The Huffington Post, The New York Times,[1] Fox News,[2] The Washington Times, and Vanity Fair, and by Rush Limbaugh. Dollard and footage from his Iraq documentary, Young Americans, are featured in a new French documentary for Canal Plus called Hollywood and Politics, directed by David Carr Brown.

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[edit] Iraq War Project

While still running a management company, representing Soderbergh and helping to service Soderbergh and George Clooney's production company at Warner Brothers' (Section 8 Films), Dollard decided to do a side project for a few weeks in the three worst combat zones in Iraq: Fallujah, The Triangle of Death, and Ramadi. The project began as a 2-4 week quickie documentary, but eventually grew to include a 7-month stay in Iraq with a Marine unit and over 200 hours of footage. The resulting documentary, Young Americans, is not yet finished, but nearly an hour of footage has been released on the Internet and clips have been shown on television. According to the November 17, 2007 issue of the Online magazine Politico, "Young Americans" has been acquired by Showtime as an 8 part documentary/reality series, and will begin airing in April, 2008. According to other press reports, directors Tony and Ridley Scott have come aboard as the series' Executive Producers.

[edit] Controversy over Vanity Fair Article

The March, 2007 edition of Vanity Fair includes a profile of Dollard by Evan Wright which has generated controversy. According to Wright, Dollard claimed to have stolen liquid Valium from an Iraqi pharmacy and distributed it to U.S. soldiers, and also to have shared cocaine with them. Slate magazine, however, reported that Dollard has disputed the allegations and considers the article inaccurate and exaggerated. According to the same report in Slate, the film rights to Dollard's life and the article were optioned by director Tony Scott, who has hired as his writing team both Wright and Dollard.[3][4]

[edit] Angel of Death

Dollard has also written an article about his experiences in Iraq, "Angel of Death", ([1]) which was published in the November, 2006 issue of Maxim magazine.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Patrick Dollard's Journey From Hollywood to Iraq - New York Times
  2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8re9dF-EyH8 Guest Appearance
  3. ^ Will Spider-Man 3 underachieve? - By Kim Masters - Slate Magazine
  4. ^ Scott fights for rights to Dollard's 'War'

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