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Columns::February 3, 2003
Digest
Actor joins CHA-Peabody Conversation
Roger Guenveur Smith, distinguished actor and writer, will discuss his Peabody Award-winning performance in A Huey P. Newton Story with Peabody Director Horace Newcomb Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Tate Student Center Theater.
Following an introduction by Center for Humanities and Arts Director Betty Jean Craige, A Huey P. Newton Story will be screened in its entirety. The audience is invited to participate in the conversation between Smith and Newcomb after the film.
The Peabody Awards program collaborates with the Center for Humanities and Arts each semester to bring a Peabody recipient to UGA for a screening and discussion of the prize-winning work. A Huey P. Newton Story also is part of the university’s observance of Black History Month.
Smith and director Spike Lee marked their seventh collaboration with this adaptation of Smith’s Obie Award-winning, internationally acclaimed, off-Broadway solo performance of the same name.
“A Huey P. Newton Story is a mesmerizing portrait of the complex co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,” says Newcomb. “Lee’s mixture of film and archival footage captures the turbulence of the 1960s and provides a stunning context for Smith’s intense performance.”
Smith’s collaboration with Lee has led to an impressive list of memorable characters, including those created in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Get on the Bus, He Got Game and Summer of Sam. Among his other notable film credits are Kings of New York, Tales from the Hood and Poetic Justice.
On stage, Smith created and performed the award-winning Inside the Creole Mafia. He also has performed with the New York Shakespeare Festival, at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Barbican Centre in London.
Grady student wins national scholarship
Amy Unterborn, a senior in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the first-prize winner of the Betsy Plank Public Relations Student Society of America scholarship.
The scholarship recognizes academic achievement, demonstrated leadership, practical experience and commitment to public relations.
“It is such an honor and also a credit to the Grady College and the strength of our public relations program,” says Unterborn. “I don’t think I would have been nearly as competitive for the Betsy Plank Scholarship without all of the advantages and opportunities I had as a Grady student.”
The Friends of PRSSA established the Betsy Plank/PRSSA Scholarship in 1989. This program is open to all PRSSA members enrolled in a program of undergraduate public relations study who are in their junior year or beginning their senior year. Three scholarships are awarded annually.
Stanford professor gives Lanier lecture
Internationally acclaimed scholar Marjorie Perloff will give a lecture entitled “The Vienna Paradox: Some Refugee Reflections” Feb. 6 at 4:30 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall. The event, part of the English department’s Lanier Series, is open free to the public.
Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University. Her books include 21st-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics (2002); Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996); Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1992); The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre and the Language of Rupture (1986); and The Poetics of Indeterminancy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981). She also is author of book-length studies of Robert Lowell and Frank O’Hara, and three collections of essays on poetry, art and music: The Dance of the Intellect (1985); Poetic License (1990); and Poetry On and Off the Page (1998).
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