The Gist

On the Show Today


The legendary former TV talk show host Phil Donohue will join me in studio with filmmaker Ellen Spiro (an old friend of mine from the ACT UP days) to talk about a powerful film they've produced and directed together: Body of War. 4:10 PM ET.

Also, at 3:30 ET I'll speak with documentary filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson, about her film Strange Culture. It is the story of Buffalo artist Steve Kurtz, who was charged with bioterrorism because of his work with genetically modified bacteria -- a frightening tale about the insane zeal of this government post-9/11 in the "war on terror."

UDPATE: Jim Neal, openly gay Democrat Jim Neal, who is hoping to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate in North Carolina and then unseat Senator Elizabeth Dole, will join me in studio at 2:20 p.m. ET
Tomorrow on the show: Rosie O'Donnell drops by.