Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, documentary filmmaker Anthony Muscato on “The Mooch.”
When a documentary filmmaker chooses to present their story in an unbiased way, the director must be prepared for unexpected events to take their project in a completely different direction. In this case, what began as director Anthony Muscato’s effort to introduce Americans to the polarizing figure of Anthony ‘The Mooch’ Scaramucci and his historically short 10-day tenure as President Trump’s White House communications director morphed into a story about a new kind of Beltway creature creeping into our politics.
Talking with Leonard today is Eileen Rivers, author of Beyond The Call, about three brave soldiers and her experience documenting them. Eileen Rivers is...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard welcomes back his brother Phillip to the show, discussing some of his picks for the best films...
Today on Leonard Lopate At Large, author Ann Beattie joins Leonard for the second installment in Leonard’s Underread Book Club, the short stories of...