Friday 5
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You know there’s a story you want to tell, but it’s not going to be in paperback. You’re saving this one for the big screen and the big bucks, right? Get some pointers at Nuts and Bolts of Screenwriting for Film and Television, a two-day writing seminar sponsored by the American Film Institute. It’ll be led by Carl Sautter, the guy behind Moonlighting’s one great episode–the black-and-white mystery dream sequence when Maddie sang and David purred. The class costs AFI members $195 and outsiders $215, and runs from 10 to 5 at Northwestern University’s Annie May Swift Hall, 1905 Sheridan Road, Evanston. Advance registration required. Call 800-221-6248 for more information.
Parents seem to be the topic at the children’s story telling hour at Powell’s Bookstore, 2840 N. Lincoln. Karen Jonas and Greg Allen will be reading from The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and When Daddy Comes Home, among other parent-kiddie tales. The reading–free, beginning at 10:30 AM–marks the start of the bookstore’s children’s series on the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 248-1444.
Monday 8
If anyone can speak on Handling Stress Successfully, it’s got to be Colonel Charles Scott. A former Iranian hostage, Scott was held for 444 stressful days by Tehran radicals. Unlike that other famous colonel, this one seems calm for all the right reasons. He talks tonight at 7:30 in the Building J Theater of Harper College, Algonquin and Roselle roads in Palatine. Lecture tickets are $2 for Harper students and $3 for the general public. For further information, call 397-3000, ext. 2547.
