{"id":11015,"date":"2021-02-21T02:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T08:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=11015"},"modified":"2023-03-02T03:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:40:59","slug":"gibney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/gibney\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Alex Gibney and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Interview!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11110\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/doc-300x113.png\" alt=\"Alex Gibney, Scott Higham, Dr. Anna Lembke and Dr. Art Van Zee of &quot;Crime of the Century&quot; on HBO\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/doc-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/doc.png 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> Interview with Alex Gibney, Scott Higham, Dr. Anna Lembke and Dr. Art Van Zee of &#8220;Crime of the Century&#8221; on HBO by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a> 2\/10\/21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to attend this TCA Virtual Press Tour. I was only able to ask one question because there were so many press there. This sounds like a great documentary that everyone should watch.<\/p>\n<p>HBO and HBO MAX CTAM PRESS TOUR WINTER 2021<br \/>\nThe Crime of the Century (HBO)<\/p>\n<p>This virtual panel had Alex Gibney (Director, Producer, Writer)<br \/>\nScott Higham (Washington Post Investigative Reporter, Subject)<br \/>\nDr. Anna Lembke (Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University, Subject)<br \/>\nDr. Art Van Zee (Primary Care Physician, Subject)<\/p>\n<p>2021 Virtual Tour<br \/>\nLos Angeles, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 10, 2021<br \/>\n\u00a9 2021 HBO and HBO Max. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>The two-part documentary \u201cThe Crime of the Century\u201d from Academy Award and Emmy winner Alex Gibney, is a searing investigative work that reveals the inner workings of the multi-billion dollar industry behind the opioid epidemic. Following the trailer, we will be joined by Alex Gibney, Director, Writer and Producer, and Film Subjects Scott Higham, Washington Post Investigative Reporter, Dr. Anna Lembke, Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University, and Dr. Art Van Zee, Primary Care Physician. (Clip shown.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the question I asked:<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: Good morning to our panel. Our first question comes from Suzanne Lanoue.<\/p>\n<p>SUZANNE LANOUE: Hi. How long did it take for you to make this?<\/p>\n<p>Alex Gibney: It took about two years from start to finish. It started with a meeting at &#8220;The Washington Post&#8221; where the editors and the reporters, Scott Higham included, sort of educated me in terms of the breadth of this. So about two years from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Here are links to other reporters&#8217; summary of the rest of the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifivision.com\/287-film-news\/6102-hbo-documentary-films-the-crime-of-the-century-debuts-this-may\">SciFiVision<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2021\/02\/hbo-crime-of-the-century-opioid-documentary-release-date-1234616147\/\">Indiewire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE INFO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<article class=\"p-media-release__content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"col-8_xs-12_sm-10\" role=\"article\">\n<header class=\"p-media-release__content__header\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">HBO Documentary Films Announces THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY, A Searing Investigative Work Revealing The Inner Workings Of The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Behind The Opioid Epidemic<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"brands grid-middle\">\n<li class=\"brand\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.warnermedia.com\/us\/ca\/brands\/hbo-0\"> HBO <\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"brand\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.warnermedia.com\/us\/ca\/brands\/warnermedia\"> WarnerMedia <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"properties\"><span class=\"caption-light\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.warnermedia.com\/us\/ca\/property\/tca-winter-2021\">TCA | Winter 2021<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"caption-light\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.warnermedia.com\/us\/ca\/property\/crime-century\">The Crime of the Century<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two-Part Documentary From Academy Award-Winning Director Alex Gibney Debuts This May<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"pressroom-content\">\n<div>\n<p>HBO\u2019s THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY, a two-part documentary directed by Emmy<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> and Academy Award<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>winner Alex Gibney (HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,\u201d \u201cGoing Clear: Scientology &amp; the Prison of Belief\u201d), is a searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.\u00a0 Exploring the origins, extent and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, with half a million deaths from overdoses this century alone, the film reveals that America\u2019s opioid epidemic is not a public health crisis that came out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of whistleblowers, insiders, newly-leaked documents, exclusive interviews and access to behind-the-scenes investigations, and featuring expert input from medical professionals, journalists, former and current government agents, attorneys and pharmaceutical sales representatives, as well as sobering testimony from victims of opioid addiction, Gibney\u2019s expos\u00e9 posits that drug companies are in fact largely responsible for manufacturing the very crisis they profit from, to the tune of billions of dollars&#8230;and thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p>THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY will debut on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max this May.<\/p>\n<p>The opioid crisis has resulted in a country ravaged by corporate greed and betrayed by some of its own elected officials, following the aggressive promotion of OxyContin, a highly addictive drug from family owned pharmaceutical giant, Purdue Pharma. Purdue worked closely with the FDA to get the highly profitable pain medication approved for wider use, promoting its safety without sufficient evidence, and creating a campaign to redefine pain and how we treat it. When government regulators or Justice Department officials tried to mitigate the wrongdoing, Purdue Pharma and companies like\u00a0Cardinal-Health that were huge opioid distributors would settle the cases, keep the details private and continue on unabated. As tens of thousands of people succumbed to opioid addiction, the fortunes built by the opiate business became the crime of the century, and the market that OxyContin had opened paved the way for even deadlier prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to Part One of THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY are: author Patrick Radden Keefe; opioid specialist Dr. Andrew Kolodny; former Purdue sales rep. Mark Ross; addiction specialist Dr. Anne Lembke; Life Tree pain clinic founder Dr. Lynn Webster; Roy Bosley, whose wife died of an opioid overdose; author and NY Times reporter Barry Meier; primary care physician Dr. Art Van Zee; former Department of Justice official Paul Pelletier; and EMT Giles Sartin.<\/p>\n<p>Part Two of THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY shines a spotlight on the mass marketing of the synthetic opioid fentanyl and examines the connections between drug manufacturers and government policy.\u00a0 While America\u2019s silent epidemic was killing 40 people a day, Insys Therapeutics, an upstart opioid manufacturer of fentanyl, continued to bribe doctors to overprescribe. Startling video of sales retreats and promotional material speak to a deep cynicism among company employees and a disregard for the widespread, nefarious corporate practices. A complex scheme to defraud the insurance companies existed side by side with fraudulent marketing tactics while lawmakers continued to turn a blind eye to the implications of a complex pipeline that delivers billions of pills around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Interweaving stories of personal tragedy from first responders, survivors and family members of opioid victims with the timeline of corporate greed and malfeasance, Part Two of THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY includes insights from former DEA agent Joe Rannazzisi; former DEA attorney Jonathan Novak; Washington Post reporters Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, Lenny Bernstein; Assistant U.S. Attorneys for Massachusetts David Lazarus, Nathaniel Yeager and Fred Wyshak; former V.P. of Sales at Insys Alec Burlakoff; former Insys regional sales manager Sunrise Lee; and fentanyl dealer Sidney Caleb Lanier. Woven together, the character-driven stories form a larger narrative of shocking corruption.<\/p>\n<p>HBO Documentary Films\u2019 presents a Jigsaw Production in association with Storied Media Group, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY written and directed by Alex Gibney; produced by Alex Gibney, Sarah Dowland, and Svetlana Zill; executive produced by Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Todd Hoffman, and Aaron Fishman; For HBO: senior producer, Tina Nguyen; executive producers, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biobrenda\/\">Brenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/interviews\/\">Back to the Primetime Articles and Interviews Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11016\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crime-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Crime of the Century&quot; on HBO\" width=\"388\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crime-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crime.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Interview! 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