abstract:Mary Jordan (born August 14, 1969) is an award winning filmmaker, artist, activist and social justice advocate based in New York City. She grew up in the Bronx and in Toronto, Canada.
With a lot of patient craft, the co-directors of this frisky yet semi-tragic 1995 documentary, Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, record the final months that Russel and Mary Jane Jordan spent on the Iowa farm that by 1990 had been in the family for almost a hundred and twenty-five years.
Yet Claire Tomalin, whose studies of Mary Wolstonecraft, Nellie Ternan and Dorothea Jordan have proved her to be one of our most painstaking, distinguished and sympathetic biographers, has produced a portrait of remarkable subtlety.
On their arrival, the Clintons were greeted at the airport by several old friends, including Jordan and his wife, TV stars Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and her children and their host Boston developer Richard Friedman and his fiance.