The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Thomas F. Lennon is a documentary filmmaker. Thomas F. Lennon has alternated between historical and contemporary subject matter. His work, broadcast on PBS and HBO, has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, winning once, and has received major television awards including two George... Foster Peabody Awards, two national Emmys and two DuPont-Columbia Journalism awards. He co-directed the HBO film Unchained Memories, along with Ed Bell, based on readings from the WPA slave narratives. For years, his work focused on ethnicity and race; recently he has focused on health, mounting, with filmmaker Ruby Yang, a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over 900 million times on Chinese television. He and Ruby Yang made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including "The Blood of Yingzhou District," which won an Oscar in 2007, and "The Warriors of Qiugang," nominated in 2011. This most recent film profiles an Anhui Province farmer's multi-year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village water by a nearby factory.
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Thomas Patrick Lennon is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. Lennon is a native of Oak Park, Illinois and 1988 graduate of Oak Park River Forest... High School. He is of Irish descent. His grandfather, Michael Lennon was raised outside the Irish town of Athlone His Grandmother, Mary Crowe, hailed from Roscommon At age sixteen, Lennon met friend and future co-worker Kerri Kenney at Theatre Camp at Northwestern University. The two later attended NYU, where they joined a comedy troupe called The New Group. The New Group later changed their name to The State. After performing their material at various theaters, bars and clubs in New York City, The State started work on the MTV show You Wrote It, You Watch It. This led to the self-titled series The State , which was nominated for a Cable Ace Award for Best Comedy Series.
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