PASADENA, California (Reuters) - Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker and daughter of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, had a big problem on her hands when making her new movie, "Friends of God," and it came from the Christian right.
When Pelosi, whose movie was backed by U.S. cable television network HBO, set out to explore the Christian evangelical movement widely credited with helping elect President George W. Bush, she had a difficult time getting anybody to open up to her.
"Forget my name. Forget HBO. It was hard to get people to talk to me just because I was from New York," Pelosi told Reuters in a recent interview in Pasadena, California, where she was presenting the documentary to television critics.
But eventually Pastor Ted Haggard opened his door to Pelosi and welcomed her....