The conservative fringe has a new darling, and he's a former drug-gobbling, hooker-chasing William Morris agent named Pat Dollard. A 23,000-word profile in the March issue of Vanity Fair tells the story of Dollard's transformation from sharp-dressed dealmaker for the likes of Steven Soderbergh to gonzo auteur who survived two roadside bombings while embedded with Marines in Iraq.

For the past two years, Dollard's been working on a film called Young Americans, a music video-style documentary explicitly intended to glorify U.S. troops and the violence they deploy in battle. "The message of my movie is simple: If you're a young person in America, the coolest, fucking most badass and most noble thing you can be today is a combat Marine," he tells Evan Wright. "My goal is to de-sensitize young people to violence. I want kids to watch my film and understand that brutality is the fucking appropriate response to a brutal enemy." Hence the footage of a mosque being destroyed and a Marine hoisting a severed Iraqi head before the camera.

Though now beloved by such archconservatives as Ann Coulter and Roger Ailes, who hold him up as an example of liberal Hollywood degeneracy made good, Dollard's political conversion didn't exactly bring about a change in his personal habits. While in Iraq, reports Wright, Dollard robbed a pharmacy at gunpoint, bringing back liquid Valium to share with the troops in "his" unit. He later invited the same unit to snort lines of coke off an armored vehicle. (Dollard tells Radar he's now attending AA and has been sober since September 11, 2006.)

After returning from his first trip to Iraq, Dollard's behavior grew more erratic. According to Wright, Dollard had his roommate, a convicted felon and sometime meth abuser, film him having sex with the man's girlfriend, then considered sending the video to Sheila Nevins, head of HBO's documentary division. Later in the piece, he asks Wright to buy him guns and a ticket to Kuwait, talks about starting an "anti-jihadi action cell," and even registers the domain name jihadikiller.com. "If I could, I'd kill jihadis with my bare hands," he tells Wright.

Not surprisingly, several of the people Wright interviewed express the opinion that Dollard is, clinically speaking, out of his fucking gourd. But Dollard disagrees. "I have often asked myself the question, 'Am I a psychopath?'" he says. "But it just doesn't add up. I can be one of the sanest people I know."

"What's really going on here is I left the whorehouse," he adds. "The people who stayed behind are the ones saying I'm a psychopath."