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On April 1st 1994 Kurt Cobain jumped over the wall of the drug rehabilitation centre he was staying at in LA. On April 8th an electrician discovered his body at his home in Seattle. During those seven days Kurt was officially listed as a missing person.
The 1970's marked a highpoint in modern hedonsim, and the "sex and drugs" lifestyle was played out most spectacularly in California.
Like millions of people, I grew up watching John Lowe and Jockey Wilson and Eric Bristow sinking pints and treble 20s. You never saw people like this on TV. It seemed exotic, exciting.The players with their chunky jewellery and their mad names, their wives holding their heads in their hands as a dart went AWOL.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum is Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous ‘public’ building and he, like it, has become an American icon. The Guggenheim opened in 1959, just a few months after Wright’s death. He had, by then, achieved legendary status and the title he claimed for himself – the world’s greatest architect – has remained largely unchallenged since.
The idea of these films is to tell the life stories and evaluate the importance of the work of some of the biggest artists, writers and musicians through the opinions of some of the most acclaimed contemporary artists . So for the viewers it's a real treat - several great artists talking about their hero. This approach offers a completely original approach to biography whilst also offering a unique insight into the thinking of the next generation of painters and writers.
Pilot for a reality game show in which a contestant shops for a mate based on snooping around their apartments while they aren't home. 60 minutes...
Pilot for reality format in which a man and a woman swap genders and undergo an increasingly difficult series of missions. Format...
Katherine Helmond hosts this one-hour exploration of the graying of America and the absence of seniors on US television. 50 minutes...
A feature for the BBC's flagship arts program "The Late Show" on the all-day drag festival in downtown New York featuring interviews with John Waters and Camille Paglia, among others. 15 minutes...
A television safari of African television. 50 minutes...
A probing analysis of the media mayhem and madness surrounding the OJ Simpson story, raising key questions about society, justice, and morality in the age of television. 45 minutes...
A feature for the PBS series "Edge," documenting the way the myth of Milken as the greedmeister of the decade was created by a handful of players. 15 minutes...
After the LA riots, World of Wonder gave cameras to ten Los Angelinos (gang leaders, cops, teachers, Koreans, TV reporters) to make video diaries about their lives. These stories were interwoven into a feature film revealing what life in LA...
