John Korty, who directed the Emmy-winning The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the Oscar-winning documentary Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, died March 9 at his home in Marin County, CA. He was 85.
His death was first reported in the Marin Independent Journal.
One of the premiere directors during the made-for-tv movie heyday that began in the early 1970s, Korty helmed the sci-fi chiller The People (1972), the anti-drug drama Go Ask Alice (1973) and, in 1980, the holiday tale A Christmas Without Snow.
His greatest television achievement came in 1974, when he directed Cicely Tyson in the celebrated CBS movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Based on the 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, the film told the story of a Black woman who, in 1962 at the age of 110, narrates her life story that began in slavery in the American South. Although works of fiction, both the novel...
His death was first reported in the Marin Independent Journal.
One of the premiere directors during the made-for-tv movie heyday that began in the early 1970s, Korty helmed the sci-fi chiller The People (1972), the anti-drug drama Go Ask Alice (1973) and, in 1980, the holiday tale A Christmas Without Snow.
His greatest television achievement came in 1974, when he directed Cicely Tyson in the celebrated CBS movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Based on the 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, the film told the story of a Black woman who, in 1962 at the age of 110, narrates her life story that began in slavery in the American South. Although works of fiction, both the novel...
- 3/17/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The White House announced Wednesday that President Barack Obama will present this year’s National Medals of Arts and Humanities to a glittering constellation of cultural and entertainment industry figures, including Joan Didion, George Lucas, Elaine May and Herb Alpert. The list of those to be honored at the July 10 East Room ceremonies includes an unusually diverse roster of honorees with Arts Medals going to Lucas, May, Alpert, beloved African American writer Ernest Gaines, playwright Tony Kushner, philanthropist Lin Arison, dancer/choreographer Joan Myers Brown, opera diva Renée Fleming, painter Ellsworth Kelly, landscape architect Laurie Olin, composer Allen Toussaint and the
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- 7/3/2013
- by Tina Daunt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paul Batiste heard a radio ad announcing a casting call in Lafayette, La., for extras in an upcoming feature film. A barber in nearby Church Point, La., who dabbled in local theater and picked up the occasional background job in Louisiana's booming film- and television-production industry, Batiste drove to the theater downtown where the casting call was being held. He filled out a form and was taken to see the director, Zack Godshall, who asked him to read a selection from "Beowulf." At the end of the reading, Batiste got a "We'll let you know."Two days later, he was informed that he had been cast. Batiste assumed that his part would be small."I said, 'Okay, that's fine,' " the actor says. "I wasn't thinking that what happened happened."What happened, unbeknownst to Batiste, was that he had just been cast as the lead in "Lord Byron," a micro-budget...
- 1/26/2011
- backstage.com
The deadly verdict of the Jim Crow laws will not be swayed in The Black Theatre Troupe.s production of A Lesson Before Dying, by Romulus Linney which runs February 18-28, 2010 at the Playhouse on the Park, Viad Center, Downtown Phoenix, under the direction of Edward G. Smith
Based on Ernest J. Gaines' prize-winning novel, a young man is to be executed for a murder he probably did not commit. But in Louisiana in 1948 the question is not whether or not young Jefferson will be executed but how he will face his ultimate fate.
A Lesson Before Dying, his eighth and latest novel, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and even achieved pop culture attention garnered as an Oprah Book Club Selection. Gaines is Professor of Emeritus of English at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
A Lesson Before Dying is produced by Black Theatre Troupe, and runs...
Based on Ernest J. Gaines' prize-winning novel, a young man is to be executed for a murder he probably did not commit. But in Louisiana in 1948 the question is not whether or not young Jefferson will be executed but how he will face his ultimate fate.
A Lesson Before Dying, his eighth and latest novel, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and even achieved pop culture attention garnered as an Oprah Book Club Selection. Gaines is Professor of Emeritus of English at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
A Lesson Before Dying is produced by Black Theatre Troupe, and runs...
- 2/3/2010
- Arizona Reporter
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