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Screening and Author TalkNorman Lear's COLD TURKEY (1971)
Sunday, November 8th at 2:30 PM
$11 Members | $18 Public
Featuring a post-film discussion with Tripp Whetsell, author of Norman Lear: His Life and Times. Copies of the book will be available to purchase.
Created by Norman Lear, the mind behind All in the Family, Cold Turkey is a sharp satire that takes aim at corporate greed, manipulation, and small-town morality. When a tobacco tycoon offers $25 million to any town that can quit smoking for 30 days, a small-town reverend (Dick Van Dyke) sees an opportunity to put his community on the map. But as the prize money fuels the town’s ambitions, nicotine withdrawal sends its residents spiraling into increasingly absurd behavior. With its biting social commentary Lear’s outrageous comedy skewers a society where public virtue and personal profit collide. (USA, 1971, 99 mins, PG-13, English | Dir. Norman Lear)
Norman Lear: His Life and Times is the unforgettable story of an extraordinary seven-decade career. Veteran author and entertainment journalist Tripp Whetsell offers an intimate portrait of Norman Lear that is the product of years of research and numerous interviews. Whetsell shows how Lear created the gold standard for television comedies, producing shows that were the first to give underrepresented members of society an authentic prime-time voice, while encouraging audiences to confront their own humanity and shortcomings. In the process, he explores one of television’s most transformative periods, detailing Lear’s legacy as one of its chief architects and catalysts. This affectionate and candid tribute combines show-business history with an illuminating consideration of the inner workings of “the man in the white hat”—a figure who singlehandedly redefined an entire medium by reflecting the world around him.
Tripp Whetsell is a bestselling author, entertainment journalist, show-business historian, and adjunct media studies professor at Emerson College in Boston. His previous books include The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up. As a journalist, he has covered TV, film, comedy, music, theater, and other aspects of popular culture for more than two decades. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vulture, and Variety, Vanity Fair,The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter and TV Guide, among others. He lives in Manhattan.
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Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave,Huntington, New York, United States
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