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I'd like to see a movie about the guy who came to California from Cambodia with nothing and became his country's doughnut hero. He opened a string of shops here just off living like a total dog till he scraped up enough money for his first doughnut shop, then opened a huge number of them all across Southern California, and inspired a whole bunch of other Cambodians to open doughnut shops too. In just a few years, almost all the doughnut shops in L.A. were supposedly Cambodian. Like, a ridiculous, overwhelming percentage.

I saw a documentary on doughnut shops in Southern California, and it was really interesting seeing how some of these guys just lived like absolute dogs for years on end till they finally came up for air with enough money to take a chance on their own doughnut shops, and some of them actually wound up talking about their jaguars and such and living in nice homes after all they went through. This fellow was mentioned as an inspiration to all of them.

Kinda heroic stuff. Very few Americans would be willing to pay that price for success.

I also wouldn't mind seeing a biography on Reginald Denny, the guy who got stomped in the L.A. riots. You didn't hear a lot about his side of the story, or what it did to him.

I'd love to see a biography of Hitler that was done as craig says, but any story about him that doesn't paint him as basically a pulsing, throbbing evil who is pretty much far beyond understanding and pretty much cartoonishly so is slammed really hard right away and almost impossible to do.

Oh, and I think I've heard that Jesus was supposed to have had a brother. Now that would make for an interesting story.

And I'd like to see a really good biography of L. Ron Hubbard. A science fiction writer goes on to create a secretive, aggressive cult-like religion after saying it would be the best way someone could make a whole lot of money. People pay fortunes to "learn" it. Eventually it rises into fashion in Hollywood, but by then is already making enormous amounts of dollars throughout the world. Germany tries to ban it. Other countries react with similar hostility. President Clinton tells John Travolta he'll look into that, and another movie star is sold something else! Ron fancies the navy for some reason, and as I recall, makes up some stories about it. He forms the Sea Org, reputedly a sort of intelligence service and goon squad within the religion, to go after people, and his "religion" becomes famous for crazily aggressive lawsuits and attempts to go after people who leave the religion. There's a story here somewhere.