About
American film director and screenwriter who wrote the famous screenplays Burroughs: the Movie and 1989's Bloodhounds of Broadway.
Before Fame
He attended Columbia University as an undergrad and NYU for grad school.
Trivia
His grad school thesis was a documentary on William S. Burroughs that made him famous.
Family Life
He contracted AIDS and went off treatment to have enough energy to shoot his final film.
Associated With
Madonna starred in his last film Bloodhounds of Broadway.
