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Robert Bruce Lindsay is a man of many talents: writer, poet, musician, painter, criminal defense attorney,
filmmaker, director, actor, editor. Boisterous yet self-deprecating, he looks more like a
lawyer considering retirement than an up-and-coming film director. He has saved lives on
death row and stirred up controversy with his poetry and paintings.
He recently received national validation, with his film accepted to both the Los Angeles International
Independent Film Festival and to the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, the worlds
largest independent film festival in which he won best screenplay.
http://www.nyfilmvideo.com/2006/.../undertheradar/
A trial lawyer for 34 years, Lindsay specializes in death penalty cases, defending the vilified underdogs of the world. "Practicing law is an art," he says, "just like everything in life is an art." As a painter, he generated controversy in 2003 when a mural he painted on the exterior of the Reno Jazz Club included some very stylized naked female breasts. "They said it was obscene," he says. "I personally never find a womans breasts to be obscene. To me, in order to be obscene, it must be duplicitous with a touch of evil. A womans breasts are rather innocuous." Lindsay performs spoken-word poetry and fronts the Poor Mans Jazz Band, a loose congregation of local jazz musicians. His performing persona is not unlike a 1970s-era Tom Waits: a barroom hustler, a gruff-voiced beatnik telling tales of bad livers and broken hearts. Education: McGeorge School of Law Member: Nevada State Bar 1974 - Current |