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    497. CONSCIENCE ON FILM: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK

    497. CONSCIENCE ON FILM: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK

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    497. CONSCIENCE ON FILM: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK

     

    Peter Josyph

     

    Set during the infamous Red Scare of the McCarthy hearings in 1953-54, this 2005 film, co-written and directed by George Clooney (who plays producer Fred Friendly), stars David Straithairn as TV host Edward R. Murrow, Frank Langella as CBS chief executive William Paley, Jeff Daniels as the director of CBS News, and Robert Downey Jr. as a CBS correspondent. Paid a total of three dollars for writing, directing, and acting in the film, Clooney, who majored in broadcast journalism in college, mortgaged his house in order to make the film, which he thought was important for addressing the use of fear in stifling political debate, and working against television becoming what Morrow called "merely wires and lights in a box." The film was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.

     

    1-3:30 p.m.                                                                                                              1 Session

    Thursday, October 2                                                                                                Fee:  $40

     

     

    ABOUT THE LECTURER

    Peter Josyph is an actor, a painter, a photographer, an award-winning filmmaker, and he has published 13 books.

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    Peter Josyph

    Peter Josyph is an author, actor, director, and filmmaker whose films include: Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero; Acting Cormac McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thorton’s All the Pretty Horses; Shakespeare In New York: The Sonnets; and A Few Things Basquiat Did in School. His books include: Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; What One Man Said to Another, Talks with Richard Seltzer; and, The Wounded River, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. He also excels in literary and film criticism.

    Lecture Details

    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Thursday, 1:00-3:30 p.m.
    Date(s)
    Oct 02, 2025