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September 20th @ 8 AM PT:
Patricia Ward Kelly and S. David Freeman with host Tim Carpenter
Biographer and film historian PATRICIA WARD KELLY is the widow of Gene Kelly. She has worked as a writer at a film production company, as a contributing scholar for the authoritative Northwestern/Newberry Writings of Herman Melville, and as a freelance journalist. She and Kelly met at the Smithsonian in 1985, when he was the host/narrator for a television special for which she was a writer. Soon after, he invited her to California to write his memoirs, a job for which she recorded his words nearly every day for over ten years, and they were together until his death in 1996. Currently, she serves as Trustee of The Gene Kelly Image Trust and Creative Director of Gene Kelly: The Legacy, a corporation established to commemorate Kelly’s centenary worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles and is completing the book about her late husband. She has appeared in “An Evening with Patricia Ward Kelly” in several cities around the world. Her centennial tribute to her late husband sold out two nights at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in May 2012. In July 2012, she reprised versions of these shows at two sold out evenings for The Film Society of Lincoln Center and at the University of Pittsburgh in October. She’ll be appearing locally at:
• The Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA, Monday, September 29, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. and Tuesday, September 30 at 7:30 pm.
• The Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista, CA, Saturday, October 4, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
S. DAVID FREEMAN is a senior advisor with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign. He has more than four decades of experience directing federal, regional and local energy policies. He was appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority by Jimmy Carter in 1977, where he stopped the construction of eight large nuclear power plants and pioneered a massive energy conservation program. Subsequently, David served for two decades as general manager of several large public power agencies including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the New York Power Authority and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. David is a renowned expert on clean energy, efficiency and the risks of nuclear power. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech, and an L.L.B. from the University of Tennessee. He wrote Energy: The New Era in 1974, and Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How in 2007. Learn more here.
