Tom Gilroy

Tom Gilroy

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Tom Gilroy is a writer/director/producer/actor from New York and has appeared in over 30 films, having worked with such directors as Ken Loach, Sidney Lumet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim McKay, Christopher Munch, Paul Auster and multi-media artist Robert Longo. He has written, directed and produced two award winning films--the short 'Touch Base' (IFC/BRAVO), and the critically-acclaimed feature 'Spring Forward,'(IFC/MGM) starring Liev Schreiber, Ned Beatty, and Campbell Scott. His plays--most notably 'The Invisible Hand' and 'Halcion Days' have been produced in several US cities and around the world. With his theatre company Machine Full(co-founded with Lili Taylor and Michael Imperioli) Gilroy has produced over a dozen critically acclaimed productions, most recently Hamlet, starring Richard Harris, Jared Harris, and Lili Taylor. Last year he directed Rosie Perez, Robert Sean Leonard, Natasha Lyonne and Mary Louise Parker in the play 'Nine Ten' for the 24 Hour play project. Tom has just completed his short 'Mr. Sycamore' and begins directing his new film 'Location,' starring Aidan Quinn, in late fall.

Blog Entries by Tom Gilroy

How Pelosi Ended 'The War With Iraq'

169 Comments | Posted October 9, 2007 | 09:39 AM (EST)


Perhaps you haven't noticed, but The War With Iraq is over.

Like everything with the Bush administration's relationship to it's gullible public, the point is never what they're doing, but what they say they're doing; it's the words, not the deeds.

So No Child Left Behind of course has...

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Spitzer Spits

Posted August 8, 2007 | 09:34 AM (EST)


Speaking recently at The Chataqua Institution (and reprinted here at HuffPost), New York Governor Elliot Spitzer extolled the virtues of humility and passion in the public arena, implicitly referencing the lack of the former and the overabundance of the latter in the White House. This is all well and...

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Victory! 18 More Months of Death!

Posted April 5, 2007 | 01:08 PM (EST)



Is it just me, or does the GROUNDBREAKING, 'take back Washington,' non-binding, sure-to-be-vetoed, Iraq war spending bill that keeps our military there for 18 more months of death, debt and destruction somehow not really smell like victory?

Is anybody else out there having a hard time seeing...

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Rudy & McCain Grow Hymens

Posted March 3, 2007 | 02:48 PM (EST)


Why is it that whenever the White House begins a full-scale character assassination on anyone who disagrees with their invented view of the world, they fall all over themselves to make it clear they're not attacking that person's patriotism?

'While I believe Madam Speaker would serve tea to the...

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The Audacity of Dopes V

Posted February 13, 2007 | 10:27 AM (EST)


Madam Speaker,

Here is today's example of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

After lying to the American people in 2005 that his 'privatization' scheme for Social Security would 'save' this crucial safety net from the future 'disaster' only he and his ideologues foresaw, President...

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The Audacity of Dopes IV

Posted February 12, 2007 | 10:42 AM (EST)


Madam Speaker,

Here are today's examples of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

Side-by-side articles on the front page of every major newspaper in the United States detailing on one side, from the Libby trial, the orchestrated pattern of lies from The White House to...

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The Rove-Edwards-Pelosi Daisy Chain

Posted February 9, 2007 | 11:05 AM (EST)


You thought Rove would just go away?

Boy, the sane of this country must really want to lose the election--again. By sane, I mean the 85% of us who know Bush and Co invaded for the oil, are gutting the Constitution, and don't in any way believe any of...

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The Audacity of Dopes III

Posted February 8, 2007 | 02:06 PM (EST)


Madam Speaker,

Here are today's examples of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

In its zeal to reward its base of the ultra rich, the White House's anti-regulatory FDA reversed the 14 year ban on silicon breast implants despite proven health risks to America's women,...

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The Audacity of Dopes II

Posted February 6, 2007 | 09:21 AM (EST)


Madam Speaker,

Here is today's example of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

With a historically unprecedented budget deficit, President Bush has asked Congress for an additional 245 billion dollars to continue his wars without end in Afghanistan and Iraq, soon to spread to Iran....

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The Audacity of Dopes

Posted February 3, 2007 | 09:44 AM (EST)


Madam Speaker,

Here is today's example of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

The new study (http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003239.html) released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that claims;
1)the 'surge' of additional troops to Iraq will actually consist of close to 50,000 troops, NOT the 21, 500...

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Pelosi Invades Iran

Posted January 31, 2007 | 08:21 AM (EST)


There's an interesting note in yesterday's New York Times article about the latest efforts of the White House to get around having to answer to the law, the Congress, or the will of the people.

In yet another stunning example of his ceaseless march to circumvent the Constitution and exert...

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Nancy Pelosi, 'Decider'

Posted December 5, 2006 | 11:55 AM (EST)


Remember how comedic the world seemed when our country was run by an unchecked, arrogant imbecile, the most loathed global figure since Hitler? In a single month before the election, habeas corpus (and therefore the Bill of Rights) was gutted, torture was deemed vital to national security, and North Korea...

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And Away We Go

Posted July 18, 2006 | 12:48 PM (EST)


Well, we're right on schedule for invading Iran, and all the major characters are onstage, right down to the Israeli prime minister, John Bolton, Condi Rice, Bill Kristol and George Will--not to mention W himself--- playing their roles to a T, having had months to memorize and perfect their lines.

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Bush's Trojan Christ

Posted May 3, 2006 | 01:30 PM (EST)


While virtually every other country in the Western world recognizes May 1st to be 'the International Day of The Worker,' we here in America studiously ignore it as anything other than just another day. That's training for ya.

Sure, the occasional rabid pundit like confessed drug addict Rush Limbaugh...

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Your Impeachment Primer

Posted March 31, 2006 | 10:36 AM (EST)


As the drums beat yet again to terrify us over a new 'threat' to democracy, this time from another country on the other side of the world that continues to abide by a non-proliferation treaty we violate daily, it's important to keep focussed on what's happening stateside; pensions are being...

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The Aristocrats

Posted March 6, 2006 | 04:10 PM (EST)


The shit is so deep with W & Co it's almost dizzying, which is of course the point. You barely have time to focus on one single embarrassing historic catastrophe -- lying about the war, say, or lying about Katrina, or lying about torture -- and suddenly you're blindsided by...

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W Places Apple On Head, Dares Nation To Shoot it Off

Posted February 1, 2006 | 10:49 AM (EST)


If you missed the President's address to the nation last night, here's all you really need to know: he dared us to impeach him.

W basically got up there and said, 'I'm the same incompetent buffoon I was 6 years ago, and I'm staying the course. What're you gonna do...

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Bush SOTU

Posted January 31, 2006 | 10:11 PM (EST)


W compares his position to Lincoln's struggles during the Civil war; as if the continuing need to attack Iraq is as bad as the country being divided in half.

CNN now talks about how he played to his strenghts, primarily National Security which in fact he's a disaster at, that's...

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Bush SOTU

Posted January 31, 2006 | 10:01 PM (EST)


In addressing the 'culture wars', Bush doesn't realize the culture has already unraveled. That's what Katrina represented: it has become a political liablity to be pro-affirmative action.

Bush is basically saying he's the same arrogant half-wit he was 5 years ago...none of his positions have changed.

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Bush SOTU

Posted January 31, 2006 | 09:55 PM (EST)


All the alternative sources of energy that he's now talking about, Carter had already set up tax incentives for their development in his own Deptartment of Energy which Reagan eliminated during his administration.

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