Heilman & Haver - Episode 34 (Guest Susan King - Part 1)

Welcome to Heilman & Haver - Episode 34.  We hope you enjoy the show!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Movie of the Decade: The Graduate

Join us for Movies of the Decade at the Historic Roxy Theater in Bremerton tomorrow, Saturday, June 26th, when we’ll celebrate the swinging 60’s with a showing of The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman.  We hit the stage at 6:30 to get the show started and TCM’s Jeremy Arnold will be back virtually with another insightful introduction.  

WWCA Auditions: The Pirates of Penzance

dust off your eye patch and peg leg and come out to Western Washington Center for the Arts in Port Orchard tomorrow at 12 noon and audition for Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance.  Please come prepared with 16 bars of a song to share and cold readings and a simple dance audition will follow.  Performance dates are September 10th - October 3rd and for more information you can visit WWCA.US or find them on Facebook.

Enter the 2021 West Sound Film Festival 

If you’re more comfortable behind the camera, we invite you to enter your film in the 2021 West Sound Film Festival.  The festival will be held August 6th-8th at the Roxy in Bremerton, but our listeners from around the country and world are welcome to enter.  Just don’t delay because submissions close at the end of June.  For more info and to submit your project visit the festival page on Film Freeway and stay tuned right here for festival news and interviews.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT:  Susan King

When it comes to interviews, award-winning entertainment writer Susan King is as accomplished as it gets.  You heard some of the big names she’s spoken with over the years, many of whom Susan grew up watching on the big screen.  She fell in love with movies at the age of three watching Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) on television and Houseboat at the movies with her parents. Susan quickly became obsessed, as her parents took her to everything from Pillow Talk, The Parent Trap, The Apartment, and Ride the High Country.  Susan became a more serious student of cinema at 17, when she was introduced to such foreign films as Francois Truffaut’s Jules & Jim; Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus; and Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion, when she watched the PBS series Film Odyssey hosted by Charles Champlin.  

Susan earned an M.A. in film history and criticism from USC and then put it to good use at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, where she worked for a decade, and the Los Angeles Times, where she was an entertainment writer for 26 years, interviewing such legends as Helen Hayes, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Lena Horne, Gregory Peck (Susan played 1930 movie trivia with the actor), Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, and Leslie Caron.  Susan was awarded the Press Award from the Publicist Guild in 2012, and the Roger Ebert Award for Diversity in Film Journalism by the African American Film Critics Association in 2015. Her archives can be found at LATimes.com and she is currently active as a freelancer for entertainment news website GoldDerby.com. Susan joins us from her home in Toluca Lake, California.

COMING UP NEXT WEEK

Join us next week for the second half of our interview with Susan for more interview stories with famous actors and tips for all of us amateur writers.