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Media Man Danny Lyon
and Nancy Lyon 1994, New York, Mississippi, and New Mexico, color and B&W, 60 minutes. Bleak Beauty's answer to CNN, NBC, and all things false and electronic. In which the filmmakers age 5 years in the production. Media Man begins in the filmmaker's garden where Danny Lyon is growing "blemish free tomatoes" in the expectartions of Jesse Helms, or "someone from the NEA" coming to dinner. Then smashing a large rotten pumpkin, Lyon announces that he is making "a film about America. The good America." Then all hell breaks loose. "Subtle, funny,
quirky" "Danny and
Nancy Lyon's 'Media Man' is a documentary in search of the truth.
. . totally honest and very funny." "A truly great
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