Ed Pressman: Celebs Rumors

collection can be found in Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, which become fully accessible to researchers in the next year or so.In an interview with TheWrap, Maitland and Glassman discussed the challenges of telling Brody’s story, the crucial letter they almost didn’t open, and the message they hope audiences will take away from “Dear Mr. Brody.”How did you come across the letters, and what was the path from that discovery to “Dear Mr. Brody”?Melissa Robyn Glassman: I used to work for [executive producer] Ed Pressman.

st birthday that he’d give away most of his $25 million to anyone who asked — as a gift for the needy, a sign of rich-in-life contentment (he’d just gotten married), and a down payment on more love in a wartorn, unequal world.The largely forgotten story of the “hippie millionaire,” whose Scarsdale home, phone line, and Manhattan business address (all given out freely by Brody) were flooded with recipient hopefuls, is only part of the weird, wonderful, and woeful retelling that is Keith Maitland’s engrossing documentary “Dear Mr. Brody.” Maitland’s previous film “Tower,” which heart-stoppingly recounted the University of Texas campus killings in 1966, remains one of the best documentaries of the past decade, and as another imaginative slice of history, memory, and contemporary applicability, this one is a more than worthy follow-up.Even if you’re unfamiliar with this blip in the timeline of eccentric beneficence, paying attention to the last 50 years would tell you that Brody’s pie-in-the-sky mission to change the world didn’t pan out.