Author, My Place in the Sun, Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington
(Audiobook Now Available)
This week, Ira once again spoke with Academy Award recipient George Stevens, Jr. author of My Place in the Sun, Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington, and whose audiobook version is now available. In this bicoastal episode of “Ira’s Everything Bagel,” George talks about moving to Washington DC to join Edward R. Murrow at the USIA; what he learned from his father, including respecting the audience; the importance of quality, which will always stand the test of time; how audiobook recording differs from the writing process (but on both “you just keep working on it until you get it right”); the digitization of “Giant,” which improved the overlapping dissolves of the original classic movie; who had the most impact on his life; his father seeing what his son could not see; and coming out of the shadow of his father.
George Stevens, Jr., who grew up in Los Angeles with his legendary film making father, is the founder of the Kennedy Center and The American Film Institute. He’s the recipient of fifteen Emmys, eight Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards, the Humanitas Prize and the 2012 Honorary Academy Award. Beyond these accolades Stevens spent time in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, creating films for the USIA during the Cold War.
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