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STRANGE
LOVES:
TERRY
SOUTHERN'S AFFAIR WITH THE MOVIES
The
National Board of Review Remembers Terry
Southern with a Retrospective and Panel
Discussion
New
York, NY – October 20, 2003 –
The National Board of Review of Motion
Pictures presents its latest educational
film seminar, Strange Loves: Terry
Southern's Affair with the Movies .
The survey and panel discussion
of the late screenwriter's work will take
place on Monday, November 3, 2003 at 7pm
at The Lighthouse Theater in New York
City. Admission is free.
Terry
Southern was an iconic figure in the world
of screenwriting and his influential work
truly defined the 1960's and changed the
face of comedy and satire on film.
The seminar will focus on clips from Dr.
Strangelove, Easy Rider, The Cincinnati
Kid, and The Loved One.
There will also be special emphasis
on the never commercially released 1970
film End of the Road starring
Stacy Keach and James Earl Jones.
Panelists
are as follows:
Jeanine
Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller
Professor of Film Studies and American
Studies at Wesleyan University, where
she is also Founder and Curator of the
Cinema Archives and Chair of the Film
Studies Department. She is the
author of eight books including “American
Cinema: 100 Years of Filmmaking,” “A Woman's
View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women
1930-1960,” and “Silent Stars.”
Victor
Bockris, once called “the poet
laureate of the New York underground,
” considers Terry Southern and important
influence and very important friend.
He has published several volumes of poetry
and conducted over fifty interviews for
publications including People, Playboy,
and Interview Magazine.
He is the author of eleven non-fiction
books including “Keith Richards: The Biography
Updated,” “Warhol: The Biography 75 th
Birthday Edition,” and “Muhammed Ali in
Fighter's Heaven.”
Gail
Gerber , Terry Southern's second
wife, was working in LA as an actress
when she met the young screenwriter on
the set of The Loved One.
Originally trained as a ballet dancer,
she appeared onstage in Under the
Yum Yum Tree, as well as a variety
of television shows and Southern's End
of the Road before returning to teaching
ballet full time in the mid-seventies.
Currently writing her memoir, Gerber
has endless anecdotes about her talented
husband.
Stuart
Klawans (moderator) is the film
critic for The Nation and writes
frequently on film for The New York
Times . He is the author of
“Film Follies: The Cinema Out of
Order” and “Left in the Dark: Film Reviews
and Essays, 1988-2001.” He is the
recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship for
2003-04, to assist in his writing a critical
study of Preston Sturges.
Rip
Torn, who played the charismatic
and sly Slade in Southern's The Cincinnati
Kid, has enjoyed a lengthy film and
television career including memorable
roles in Sweet Bird of Youth,
The Insider, HBO's The Larry
Sanders Show, and Men in Black.
He is currently appearing
as Senator Turner in the new Rob Lowe
series, The Lyon's Den on NBC.
Harris
Yulin , co-star of End of
the Road , has appeared in over 100
films and television programs including
The Hurricane, The Emperor's Club,
and Clear and Present Danger.
As one of the founders of the Los
Angeles Classic Theater, Yulin is a stage
staple, appearing on Broadway in A
Lesson from Aloes, Watch on the Rhine
and The Visit. He
is currently starring in Fran's Bed
with Mia Farrow at the Long Warf
Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.
The
National Board of Review, with no commercial
ties to the industry, was founded in 1909
to support excellence and free expression
in film. The group works to underwrite
educational film programs, like Strange
Loves, and endow scholarships
for film students and grants for up and
coming directors. In addition,
the NBR screens over 300 films per year
and kicks off the awards season each December
by being the first group to announce annual
winners.
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