Alexandra Pelosi

Alexandra Pelosi's campaign trail souffle, "Diary of a Political Tourist," never completely collapses on itself, but it doesn't quite rise to the occasion either. The HBO documentary doggedly follows Democratic presidential hopefuls as they try to win the hearts and minds of Iowans and New Hampshire-ites, ending with Sen. John F. Kerry's coronation at the party's national convention in July.

Just in time for the Fourth of July, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi and HBO present a homemade patriotic valentine, complete with ribbons, streamers and enough flag-waving to create the sensation of an actual breeze emanating from your flat screen. "Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip" began when Pelosi's Dutch-born husband realized, upon the birth of their first child, that a green card was not enough — to avoid being "a foreigner in my own family," he had to become an American citizen.

Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi wanted to humanize evangelical Christians with her new HBO road trip documentary, "Friends of God," and she spent months befriending the movement's leader, Rev. Ted Haggard, roasting marshmallows in his backyard, shooting rifles with him and watching his son's football game. He became the star of the film, the telegenic face she chose to help dispel notions of evangelical Christians as "broken hypocrites."

Documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi ("Journeys With George," "Friends of God") returns Monday to her customary venue, HBO, with "Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County." There were whole families living in single motel rooms long before this latest dep/recession gripped the nation and the world, and not only here in Southern California. (CBS News looked in on some Salinas, Calif., motel kids last year, with a return visit just this May.) But the setting of Pelosi's film is particularly trenchant, given the conspicuous overconsumption that has become associated with the locale — the subtitle echoes "The Real Housewives of Orange County" — and the physical proximity of many of these motels to Disneyland, the self-declared Happiest Place on Earth.

Just in time for the Fourth of July, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi and HBO present a homemade patriotic valentine, complete with ribbons, streamers and enough flag-waving to create the sensation of an actual breeze emanating from your flat screen. "Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip" began when Pelosi's Dutch-born husband realized, upon the birth of their first child, that a green card was not enough — to avoid being "a foreigner in my own family," he had to become an American citizen.

Documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi ("Journeys With George," "Friends of God") returns Monday to her customary venue, HBO, with "Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County." There were whole families living in single motel rooms long before this latest dep/recession gripped the nation and the world, and not only here in Southern California. (CBS News looked in on some Salinas, Calif., motel kids last year, with a return visit just this May.) But the setting of Pelosi's film is particularly trenchant, given the conspicuous overconsumption that has become associated with the locale — the subtitle echoes "The Real Housewives of Orange County" — and the physical proximity of many of these motels to Disneyland, the self-declared Happiest Place on Earth.

Lots of people between New York and Los Angeles really like God, Alexandra Pelosi discovers in the one-hour documentary "Friends of God: A Road Trip With Alexandra Pelosi," premiering Thursday on HBO. Pelosi, daughter of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, made the 2002 doc "Journeys With George" that told us two things: Primaries are a slog for the press corps inside what's known as "the bubble" of election campaigns, and George W. Bush really likes Cheetos.

NEW YORK -- Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi's mom has devotedly traipsed around the country in the last year to attend five screenings of her daughter's new documentary "Journeys With George." Sweet, but it also gets her off the hook tonight, when the film has its HBO premiere. Mom -- also known as House Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) -- can be forgiven for having her attention focused elsewhere election night, on her own reelection results and the tight battle for control of Congress.

When the next Congress convenes in January, two names will be offered in nomination for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. One will be J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who will win. The other will be Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who will lose.

Ted Haggard liked and trusted Alexandra Pelosi. The once-powerful evangelical leader had become friendly with the HBO filmmaker when she was making a documentary about evangelicals in 2005, even taking Pelosi and her husband camping at one point and teaching them how to shoot rifles. So when Pelosi called Haggard after he was ousted from his church following a gay sex scandal, he was delighted to hear from her.

Ted Haggard liked and trusted Alexandra Pelosi. The once-powerful evangelical leader had become friendly with the HBO filmmaker when she was making a documentary about evangelicals in 2005, even taking Pelosi and her husband camping at one point and teaching them how to shoot rifles. So when Pelosi called Haggard after he was ousted from his church following a gay sex scandal, he was delighted to hear from her.

Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi wanted to humanize evangelical Christians with her new HBO road trip documentary, "Friends of God," and she spent months befriending the movement's leader, Rev. Ted Haggard, roasting marshmallows in his backyard, shooting rifles with him and watching his son's football game. He became the star of the film, the telegenic face she chose to help dispel notions of evangelical Christians as "broken hypocrites."

Lots of people between New York and Los Angeles really like God, Alexandra Pelosi discovers in the one-hour documentary "Friends of God: A Road Trip With Alexandra Pelosi," premiering Thursday on HBO. Pelosi, daughter of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, made the 2002 doc "Journeys With George" that told us two things: Primaries are a slog for the press corps inside what's known as "the bubble" of election campaigns, and George W. Bush really likes Cheetos.

Alexandra Pelosi's campaign trail souffle, "Diary of a Political Tourist," never completely collapses on itself, but it doesn't quite rise to the occasion either. The HBO documentary doggedly follows Democratic presidential hopefuls as they try to win the hearts and minds of Iowans and New Hampshire-ites, ending with Sen. John F. Kerry's coronation at the party's national convention in July.

When the next Congress convenes in January, two names will be offered in nomination for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. One will be J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who will win. The other will be Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who will lose.

NEW YORK -- Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi's mom has devotedly traipsed around the country in the last year to attend five screenings of her daughter's new documentary "Journeys With George." Sweet, but it also gets her off the hook tonight, when the film has its HBO premiere. Mom -- also known as House Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) -- can be forgiven for having her attention focused elsewhere election night, on her own reelection results and the tight battle for control of Congress.

What makes Kevin Crust think that Alexandra Pelosi was even attempting to pull off a "Michael Moore-style provocation" in her documentary "Diary of a Political Tourist" ["In Dogged Pursuit of a Campaign Movie," Oct. 11]? Despite his current popularity, not every documentary filmmaker aspires to be as annoyingly repugnant as Moore. Personally, I'm grateful that Pelosi didn't follow Moore's hyperbolized lead on this film. Otherwise, it would've ended up as just another partisan political piece.

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