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Former talk show host makes truth his mission, now on other side of the camera
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-phil-donahue-0511may11,0,5767389.story
" ... The other half of the feature-length film, which opens Friday in Chicago at the Century Centre Cinema, tells the story of Tomas Young, a Kansas City, Mo., man who is living with the consequences of that debate. Inspired by President Bush's vow to take action against the terrorists who plotted the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the 22-year-old Young enlisted in the Army, and, five days after arriving in Iraq in 2004, was shot through the spine. He was left paralyzed from the chest down.
" 'Little Miss Sunshine' it ain't," Donahue said. "This is not a take-your-girl-to-the-pictures kind of film."
Sparing no detail, the film opens with Young struggling to pull on his pants and goes on to show how every facet of his life has been turned upside down, along with the lives of his newlywed wife and mother. Along the way, he becomes an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq. ..."
