Reverie Productions presents "THE LAST EDITOR"

Produced & Directed by:
CHRISTOPHER CARSON

THE LAST EDITOR is an award winning feature film about the life and career of a legendary media figure named James Bellows who challenged America's three greatest newspaper powers - The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. In the process, he changes the face of journalism. Jim Bellows brought a new generation of writers to the mainstream press, creating a newsroom Camelot. And his influence can be seen in the brighter and bolder design of the rivals who survived. He challenged the three most successful newspapers in America which all became livelier and more graphically interesting as a result of his challenge.

THE LAST EDITOR features interviews with many of today's top writers and artists who worked with Jim - A Who's Who List of contemporary journalism- including Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe, Art Buchwald, Bob Novack, Ben Stein, Leonard Maltin, Gail Sheehy, Paul Conrad, Jack Germond, David Halberstam, Pat Oliphant, Caroline Graham, Digby Diehl, Don Forst, Jim Fain, Richard Kluger, David Laventhol, Mary McGrory, Wanda McDaniel, Mary Murphy, Mark Shields, Barbara Hower, Diana McLellan, Louise Lague, Diane K. Shah, Richard Wald, and Mary Anne Dolan. Also featuring Joe Allbritton, Otis Chandler and William R. Hearst, III.

THE LAST EDITOR chronicles the life and career of Jim Bellows, a man who made his name, as well as the names of some of the best known writers in the country, challenging the status quo and championing the underdog, the start-up and the upstart -- from newspapers to television to the Internet. Jim was near the top or at the helm of major metropolitan dailies when newspapers were the dominant media through the turbulence of the Civil Rights Movement, the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the domestic turmoil of Vietnam. He was also a news producer and editor at ABC-TV, and one of the first prominent journalists to work in computer-based news and information as the editor of Prodigy, and later Excite.

An imaginative and passionate crusader, as the youngest editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Bellows ushered in the era of New Journalism with his amazing stable of writers, from Tom Wolfe and Gail Sheehy to Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schaap. He was one of the first journalists to spot the growing public appetite for entertainment and celebrity news, reflected in: the gossip column by Joyce Haber which he launched in the Los Angeles Times; the infamous "Ear" gossip column in The Washington Star, begun when he was the editor there; his first venture in television as the managing editor of the then-fledgling Entertainment Tonight; and his stint as the West Coast Bureau Chief of TV Guide.

Jim has done it all - from newspapers and magazines to television and the Internet - with grace, style and guts. Doing it his way and never playing it safe, whether marrying for the third time, fathering his fourth daughter at the age of 50, or joining an Internet startup at 72, with six guys barely out of their teens. Jim's story is unique, exciting, moving and a must-see for anyone interested in loving and working intensely and joyfully and those who trust life and rarely look back.

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