Heilman & Haver - Episode 35 (Guest Susan King - Part 2)

Welcome to Heilman & Haver - Episode 35.  We hope you enjoy the show!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Movies of the Decade: Jaws

Join us for Movies of the Decade at the Historic Roxy Theater in Bremerton tomorrow, Saturday, July 3rd, when we’ll celebrate the 70s with a showing of Jaws, Written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss.  We hit the stage at 6:30 to get the show started and TCM’s Jeremy Arnold will be back virtually with another entertaining and insightful introduction.   

In the Mix: Independence Day

Jaws defined a genre, paving the way for multitudes of killer sharks (some in tornados) and overgrown, hungry critters of all kinds.  As did our topic for this week’s In the Mix for the science fiction disaster genre.  Independence Day debuted 25 years ago on July 3rd and we’re back at the Bay Street Bistro celebrating the film’s anniversary with trivia and a new cocktail for you - “The Smoked Independence.”  The Bistro will be open Sunday July 4th and will be featuring our cocktail, so tune into our YouTube channel for In the Mix - Independence Day, then make your reservations.  Have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Attend the 2021 West Sound Film Festival 

If filmmaking is something that interests you or you just love independent films, make plans to attend the 2021 West Sound Film Festival, August 6th-8th at the Roxy in Bremerton.  Submissions are closed and now the judging begins.  For more info visit westsoundfilmfestival.com 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, Friday, July 9th, when we’ll welcome Tim Hagen to the show.  Tim is the Founder of the Olympic College Film School and Chair of the Digital Filmmaking Department where he teaches acting, directing, and film studies.