Pat Dollard

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", [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/movies/06doll.html?ei=5088&en=7ff2f621983e0da2&ex=1304568000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all Patrick Dollard's Journey From Hollywood to Iraq - New York Times ] ] Fox News, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8re9dF-EyH8 Guest Appearance] "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.

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.

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. [ [http://www.slate.com/id/2164832/fr/flyout#Dollard Will Spider-Man 3 underachieve? - By Kim Masters - Slate Magazine ] ] [ [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i539b9b9d3539a4ca5cd6896a99bf3ff7 Scott fights for rights to Dollard's 'War' ] ]

Perspective on the Iraq War

On his radio show, the 'jihadikiller hour', from May 18 2008, he stated his view on the reason for the Iraq war. Democracy, modern education, and capitalism.

Dollard: "History is gonna treat [Bush] more kindly than it has so far . . . I think he absolutely did the right thing by having the bravest vision in the world to go into Iraq . . . I didn't care at all about WMD . . . we had to establish, uh you know, a presence there so that we could institute change, so that we could stop these governments from uhm jinning up their populations to attack us . . . bring em some uh some wealth . . . capitalism . . . just so everybody knows, most of these, like, islamic nations are based on what is known as Nasserist uhm socialism, which is you know Abdul Gamel Nasser from Egypt. . . they're still, in the greatest degree, socialist countries . . . so this is one of the reasons why these people, you know, so people remain poor. Uhm, they've got shitty education systems that, you know, want to train a lot of them to uh, or teach a lot of them to live and behave as if they're still in the 15th century, and, uhm, you know. . . it was Democracy, modern education, and capitalism, you know, bring bring them some democracy, and, you know what I'm saying? So we had to begin to turn the tide there, where the tide was, like, building or whatever, and it was important to, you know, not go in and establish Iraq as a colony, so we would have, you know, a long term substantial presence there, and kind of like be ruling the place. . . but . . . we did have to turn it into a democracy, you know what I'm saying? We had to modernize the place so it was less likely to breed jihadism and be an ally of jihadism. . . .

Caller: . . . The majority of the people. . . . they're happy we're there right?
Dollard: Well, they are. . . [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/patdollard/2008/05/19/The-Jihadikiller-Hour]

New American Civil War

He frequently talks on his show about how "America is in a gunless and bloodless civil war". [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/patdollard/2008/05/19/The-Jihadikiller-Hour] "I feel contempt for the average civilian . . . I can't stand that I live in a culture, especially in Hollywood, where measure of man is self-indulgence." [http://www.matt-sanchez.com/2008/01/young-americans.html]

Angel of Death

Dollard has also written an article about his experiences in Iraq, "Angel of Death", ( [http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=7341] ) which was published in the November, 2006 issue of "Maxim" magazine.

References

External links

* [http://www.patdollard.com/ Official page]
* [http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/archives/former_self-described_hollywood_pimp_patrick_dollard_blogs_almost_live_from_iraq.phtml Hollywood Interrupted: Former Self-Described "Hollywood Pimp" Patrick Dollard Blogs (Almost) Live From Iraq - April 3, 2006]
* [http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/what-the-f-is-up-with-pat-dollard/ Deadline Hollywood Daily: Deadline Hollywood Daily » What The F*** Is Up With Pat Dollard?]
* [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117938955.html?categoryid=19&cs=1 Variety.com - Dollard Wounded in Iraq]
* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/060313/13whisplead_2.htm US News & World Report - Oscars' MIA still shooting in Iraq]
* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/archive/march2006.htm US News & World Report - Look at what Dollard survived!]