The West Wing - A Viewing
When: Tuesday, June 08, 2004, 7:30 pm
Where: Atrium, 10th Floor :: LBJ Library and Museum :: 2313 Red River Street
Contact: Sarah McCracken [sarah@lbjfoundation.org...]
You are invited to join us for an Evening with Tommy Schlamme and the West Wing. Thomas Schlamme, the former executive producer and frequent director of the Emmy-winning drama The West Wing will bring two episodes that he directed to the LBJ Auditorium in a screening hosted by the Austin Film Festival and the LBJ Library and Museum.
The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by writer Bud Shrake. The two episodes Schlamme will screen are "Take This Sabbath Day" from the first season and the season finale of the second season, "Two Cathedrals." Schlamme, a 1972 graduate of the University of Texas College of Communications, has gone on to forge a long and varied career in television and feature films.
He has developed a very identifiable visual style that shaped such series as Spin City, The Larry Sanders Show, David E. Kelley's Boston Public, along with Sports Night, and The West Wing, winning him multiple Director's Guild and Emmy Awards. He is currently teaming up with his long-time collaborator and West Wing creator, Aaron Sorkin, on a feature film The Farnsworth Invention. Schlamme recently shot a television pilot, Jack and Bobby, here in Austin for the WB Network. Schlamme also serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Texas Film Institute.
You do not need to RSVP for this event; just show up and enjoy! COME EARLY to see the traveling Smithsonian Institute exhibit "The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden." Doors to the LBJ Library and Museum will re-open at 6 p.m. to allow visitors to see the exhibit before the 7:30 p.m. screenings.
The exhibition features five audio-visual presentations, two interactive experiences and the 350 artifacts, ranging from the inkwell Lincoln used for the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to the gavel from Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.