Wendy McCaw--Now In Panavision, Cinemascope and Wide Screen

Citizen McCaw is a documentary about the drama and the mama up in Santa Barbara. Back in July 2006, editor Jerry Roberts and five of his colleagues quit the Santa Barbara News-Press (the drama), owned by ethics-challenged gazillionairess Wendy McCaw (the mama). The film opens in Santa Barbara on March 7, barring intervention by McCaw’s legal team–who already tried to subpoena of all raw footage., a demand that was rejected by judge William Kocal.

Producers (who include Rod Lathim, Peter Seaman and Charles Minsky) said that more than 80 hours of footage were shot, including interviews with the Washington Post’s Ben Bradlee, journalist Ann Louise Bardach, former NBC News reporter Sander Vanocur, Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, and Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy.

We hope the producers were able to license the Beach Boys’ oldie classic.

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