Gary Michaels
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226 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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Awesome. Well, Lisa, I want to say thank you for joining us today on Let's Talk Legacy. Thank you.
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Let's talk legacy.
Welcome to Let's Talk Legacy. I'm Gary Michaels, the host of the show. And today we have George Stevens Jr. He's a writer, director, producer, playwright, author, and champion of American film. He's achieved an extraordinary creative legacy, which we're going to speak about today, spanning more than 50 years, enriching the nation's cultural heritage.
So I'm just so excited when I got to know that we were going to have you on the show, George. I got pretty fired up. So welcome to the show. Well, Gary, it's great. And I heard about your show and I'm looking forward to talking with you. Awesome. Awesome. So since we are talking about legacy, let's just go right into that.
Obviously, with your career and everything you've done, legacy is important to you. And so what does legacy mean to you?
Well, they're huge. I mean, A Place in the Sun and Shane and Diary of Anne Frank. I mean, these are things that are not to be forgotten. When you think about your father and your family, how much influence did that have on you?
Obviously, most of us in this world, we have good habits and bad habits from the way we were raised from our parents, right? And we have good tendencies and are definitely influenced by the way we were raised. Did you feel like getting into theater and movies and putting yourself out there was something that would have come naturally for you anyhow?
Or was it something that you feel like came to you because you were around that space?
Did you ever feel like you arrived? Was there a time that there was a personal accomplishment that you did that made you feel like, yes, I honor my father. I was blessed to be in that situation, but you know what? I'm pretty proud of myself too.
Do you have any personal stories of your time with the Kennedys that really struck a chord with you?
Now, you went on after that to help establish the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as serve as the founding director of the American Film Institute, which helped preserve and restore film. And during that time, tell us a little bit about the importance of then and today preserving the legacy of these films for the future generations.
Wow. So some of your best known works deal with the topic of race in America, including the play Thurgood about the Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Separate But Equal. Your Emmy Award winning miniseries, which was about the landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954. Now that decision celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.
The series has just been released on DVD, and to honor that, talk to us a little bit about the making of Separate But Equal and the gravity you felt making it. I mean, there's so much here.
You know, your career also sort of came full circle in 2009 when President Obama asked you to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, where you had led the American Cultural Delegation to Cuba. Right. So when you were in the Kennedy administration in the 60s, things were a little different between U.S. and Cuba. What was it like to go there as a friend?
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