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September 22, 1995
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CONTACT: Leslie Rice
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Eisenhower Symposium Brings Movie Industry
Insiders to Hopkins
Imagine life without movies.
The moving picture turns 100 this year and some Johns
Hopkins University
undergraduates who can't picture life without a big screen have
marked film's
centennial by bringing to the Homewood campus an impressive group
of movie
industry insiders to discuss the powerful medium of film.
The 1995 Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium, "Framing Society: A
Century of
Cinema" will be held in Shriver Hall at 8 p.m. on different
nights from Oct.
10 through Nov. 16, and is entirely free and open to the
public.
James Robinson, founder and CEO of Morgan Creek Productions,
will
discuss the movie-making business in the series kick-off event
Oct. 10. Since
1988 Robinson has produced at least 26 films, including Young
Guns I
and II, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Enemies: a Love Story,
Ace Ventura:
Pet Detective and True Romance. Last year Robinson,
a Baltimore
resident who commutes every week to the West Coast, was named the
most
prolific producer of the year by Hollywood Reporter
Magazine.
Also during the series, an independent film maker will
discuss the
recent boom in independent, low-budget films while another
director will talk
about the importance of her identity as a Latina lesbian and her
struggle not
to be pegged as a "queer" director. Other speakers will discuss
the portrayal
of African-Americans and women in movies, and one of India's
leading directors
will discuss the international movie scene.
Symposium organizers say another highlight will be a lecture
given by
veteran screenwriter Millard Kaufman. Kaufman, 78, has weathered
the ups and
downs of the film industry for decades and his colorful,
tell-it-like-it-is
style is as entertaining as it is enlightening. Besides writing
memorable Lee
Marvin and Spencer Tracy westerns like Bad Day at Black Rock and
Take the High
Ground, he is also known for risking his career by fronting the
screenplay Gun
Crazy for a blacklisted friend during the McCarthy era. Still,
Kaufman is
probably most famous for creating the quirky and comical cartoon
character Mr.
Magoo.
During the symposium, Hopkins will also hold the grand
opening of the
Shriver Hall Theater in Shriver Hall Auditorium, which will be
outfitted with
state-of-the-art screening capabilities, making it the largest
movie theater
in the Baltimore-Washington area. In the future, the new theater
will host
movie premieres and sneak previews as well as off-beat and
foreign films.
The Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium was established in 1967
by Hopkins'
undergraduate student council to honor the university's eighth
president.
Every year since then, a team of two to three students chosen by
the student
council has arranged and managed all aspects of the series.
Usually about six
prominent figures are booked to address a current national
issue.
Covering topics like the nuclear arms race, human sexuality,
freedom of
the press and foreign policy and race, the symposium has been
drawn speakers
like Aaron Copland, Kurt Vonnegut, Carl Bernstein, former
senators George
McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, Pat Robinson and Isaac Asimov.
This year's symposium organizers are Hopkins seniors Chris
Aldrich and
Matt Gross. Gross and fellow Hopkins senior Gil Jawetz have also
produced and
directed a short film, Mardi Gras, Baltimore, which will
premiere
during the symposium.
The 1995 Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium.
Oct. 10, 8 p.m.
Lecture.
"The Film Industry." James G. Robinson, CEO of Morgan Creek
Productions;
producer of True Romance, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Major
League
2.
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 8 p.m.
Screening.
Go Fish, written and directed by Rose Troche.
Thursday, Oct. 12, 8 p.m.
Lecture.
"Sexuality and Film." Rose Troche writer/director of Go
Fish.
Thursday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.
Lecture.
"Women In Film and Criticism." Molly Haskell, New York film
critic and author
of From Reverence to Rape.
Thursday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.
Lecture.
"Censorship of Film." Millard Kaufman, screenwriter, Bad Day
at Black
Rock, Take the High Ground, Raintree Country; board member
of the Writers
Guild of America; creator of Mr. Magoo.
Friday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.
Screening.
Bad Day at Black Rock, written by Millard Kaufman. The
film will be
introduced by Kaufman and followed by a question and answer
session.
Thursday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m.
Lecture.
"Race and Film." Thomas Cripps, author and history professor at
Morgan State
University.
Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m.
Premiere and screening.
World premiere of Mardi Gras, Baltimore, written,
produced and
directed by JHU students Gil Jawetz and Matt Gross. Screening of
Laws of
Gravity, produced by Larry Meistrich.
Thursday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m.
Lecture.
"Independent films." Larry Meistrich, producer of Laws of
Gravity and
New Jersey Drive; CEO of the Shooting Gallery.
(photos of speakers available upon request)
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