Heilman & Haver - Episode 29 (Guest Tracey Goessel)

Welcome to Heilman & Haver - Episode 29.  We hope you enjoy the show!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

In honor of their 80th birthday, the Historic Roxy Theater in Bremerton, WA, will kick off their year-long celebration with a showing of Citizen Kane on Saturday, May 29th, and we’re proud to have been asked to emcee the event.  We’ll be joined, virtually, by our friend, TCM guest host, film historian, and author, Jeremy Arnold, who’ll introduce the film and give context and commentary on Welles’s master work.  Tickets are just $11 and we’ll hit the stage at 6:30pm, or come early and enjoy the Roxy’s pop-up wine bar beginning at 2pm.  There will be opportunities to win prizes for knowing your movie trivia, and anyone born in 1941 gets in free.  Visit roxybremerton.org/showtimes for tickets.

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT:  Tracey Goessel

Although both a physician and an entrepreneur, Tracey Goessel’s true passion is silent film history.  In 2015 she published The First King of Hollywood, a biography of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., dubbed by The New York Times to be "a buoyant handspring of a book... one of the most delightful Hollywood biographies to slide down the mast in years.” The book has just come out in paperback in 2018.  In addition, she founded the nonprofit Film Preservation Society, which has recovered and restored several silent films formerly thought to be lost or unavailable for viewing, including Fairbanks’ Mr. Fixit, The Good Bad Man, and The Halfbreed. FPS funded the software that enables the Library of Congress to scan original paper prints of silent films from the first decade of the 1900s, and currently the goal is to restore all 485 D.W. Griffith Biograph films that were made between 1908 and 1913.

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COMING NEXT WEEK:  Tommy Kurzman

Join us next week, Friday May 28th, when we’ll be joined by the Makeup & Prosthetics Designer for Mrs. Doubtfire: The Musical, Tommy Kurzman.  Tommy’s makeup, prosthetics, hair and wig design skills have contributed to over a dozen Broadway shows including My Fair Lady, The King and I, and Fiddler on the Roof.  With quarantine winding down, Mrs. Doubtfire begins previews in October and officially opens on Broadway December 5th.  Prosthetics are especially critical in telling this story, and we’re excited to learn more about Tommy’s work.