Hollywood talent agent Pat Dollard turned war reporter when he went to film US marines in Iraq. In late November 2004, Pat Dollard, a Hollywood talent agent whose biggest client was the director Steven Soderbergh, dropped everything, picked up a video camera, and went to Iraq. But Dollard stayed in Iraq for three months and returned a year later to spend an even longer stretch in Ramadi, one of the country’s deadliest, and most underreported, flashpoints. By the time he returned to Los Angeles in late March 2006, Dollard had amassed more than 700 hours of footage, the raw material with which he planned to forge a unique record of life and death on the frontline in Iraq. He negotiated the deal that set Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning film about the drug trade, Traffic, in motion, and he partied with the likes of Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Billy Bob Thornton, who once said, “Pat Dollard is the only person I know in Hollywood who’s crazier than me. A few helpful military connections got Dollard into Iraq, but the marines were nonplussed by the fast-talking Hollywood operator in their midst. read more

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