2008 Woodie Awards
2008 Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival
Film host admits a love for Lucy, Indy, and Clooney
MANDY RODGERS
Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Out & About
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"I like to be entertained by movies. I do like serious movies but not in the exclusion of everything else," said Osborne, who lends his name to the Robert Osborne's Classic Film Festival coming to Athens for its fourth year.
"I think that it's great to have all kinds of movies, including the ones that depress you or are a slice of life, but I also don't think that we put enough movies in theaters that just entertain."
Graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in journalism, Osborne was interested in film and assumed the only way to work in it was to act, so he began pursuing small television roles.
Osborne and company perfected the hosting design with his own well-researched facts for each film.
One particular role in a series under Desilu Productions led to Osborne's meeting with Lucille Ball, where she immediately signed him to a contract and began a friendship.
ROBERT OSBORNE'S CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL
When: tonight through SundayWhere: The Classic Center
Cost: $60 (pass for all),
$45 (student pass) or
$10 (individual screenings),
$8 (student screenings)
SCHEDULE
Thursday8:30 p.m. - "Young Frankenstein" (1974)
Friday
10 a.m. - Panel Discussion at the Classic Center (Free and open to the public)
1:30 p.m. - "Notorious" (1946)
4:30 p.m. - "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959) (free children's matinee)
8:30 p.m. - "The Way We Were" (1973)
Saturday
11 a.m. - "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)
4:30 p.m. - "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993)
8:30 p.m. - "The African Queen" (1951)
Sunday
1:30 p.m. - "The King and I" (1956)
"She always considered anybody who had been to college smart, not realizing that she was kind of smarter than anybody in the world," Osborne said of the icon who never finished high school. "She just had street smarts and wisdom."
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