Jane Fonda and ‘Barefoot in the Park’ to Kick Off TCM Classic Film Festival
📖 Full Retelling
Barbara Hershey and Paul Williams will receive tributes, and Bruce Goldstein will be presented with the Robert Osborne Award.
Entity Intersection Graph
No entity connections available yet for this article.
Original Source
Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment The 17th annual TCM Classic Film Festival will open with a screening of Barefoot in the Park , with two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda there to introduce the 1967 romantic comedy and honor friend and co-star Robert Redford . The festival returns to Hollywood on April 30-May 3 with the theme “The World Comes to Hollywood,” which is meant to celebrate “the fusion of global artistry and entrepreneurial vision that established the West Coast as the filmmaking capital of the world.” Actress Barbara Hershey and composer, performer and Oscar-winning songwriter Paul Williams will receive career tributes. Hershey will appear for showings of Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and A World Apart (1988), while Williams will be on hand for screenings of The Muppet Movie (1979), featuring his Oscar-nominated song “Rainbow Connection,” and Elaine May’s Ishtar (1987). Related Stories Movies Jeremy Larner, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter on Robert Redford's 'The Candidate,' Dies at 88 Movies Robert Carradine, 'Revenge of the Nerds' Star Who Played 'Lizzie McGuire' Father, Dies at 71 Plus, Bruce Goldstein, founding repertory artistic director of the Film Forum in New York and founder of Rialto Pictures , the distributor of classic films, will be presented with the seventh annual Robert Osborne Award, given to an individual whose work has helped preserve the cultural heritage of classic film. The presentation of Barefoot in the Park , directed by Gene Saks in an adaptation of Neil Simon’s Broadway hit, will recognize the Paramount movie’s lasting charm and Redford’s indelible career as an actor, filmmaker and cultural force. (Redford, who died on Sept. 16 at age 89, also starred in the Broadway original directed by Mike Nichols .) “Opening night sets the tone for the enti...
Read full article at source