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Olympic storyteller comes to campus for ‘Conversation’

By Eric Holder
eholder@uga.edu

Peabody Award winner and renowned Olympic storyteller Bud Greenspan will show a selection of his award-winning sports

Bud Greenspan

documentaries and discuss his work on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Tate Center Theater. Following his presentation, Greenspan will talk about his career with Peabody Director Horace Newcomb and members of the audience. The event, part of a continuing series of Center for Humanities and Arts-Peabody Conversations, is free and open to the public.
Greenspan won a Personal Peabody Award in 1996 for a lifetime of outstanding work; he was cited by the Peabody Board for “an exceptional gift for personal storytelling, a matchless eye for camera angle and location, and above all, a complete and total commitment to truth.”
“Greenspan captures the humanity of sport on film, and in the process he has single-handedly defined a new genre of documentary,” says Newcomb. “We are truly fortunate to have such a pioneering storyteller as part of our conversation series.”
The CHA-Peabody Conversation brings a Peabody Award winner to UGA for a screening and discussion each semester.
In addition to his Peabody Award, Greenspan holds lifetime achievement awards from the Directors Guild of America, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Track and Field Association. In 2000 he was inducted into the Silver Circle of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Greenspan was the 17th American to be awarded the coveted “Olympic Order” by President Juan Antonio Samaranch and the International Olympic Committee for his contribution to the Olympic movement.
Greenspan’s latest production, Salt Lake 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory, premiered March 3 on Showtime. This film marked the seventh in a series of official Olympic films Greenspan has written, produced and directed, beginning with his coverage of the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles.
He is also the author of several books, including three on the Olympics: 100 Greatest Moments in Olympic History, The Olympians Guide to Winning the Game of Life, and Frozen in Time: The Greatest Moments at the Winter Olympics.
His first spoken-word record album, Great Moments in Sport, earned Greenspan a gold record. It was followed by 18 more spoken-word albums, including December 7, 1941, produced in association with the New York Times.

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