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The Daily OrangeAlan Alda film to screen on campus, Q&A to follow
By Abram Brown
Posted: 10/30/08, 3:47 AM EST Section: Feature
Students will also have another chance to ask Alda questions at the panel discussion.
"We wanted to show off how smart our students are," said Peter Moller, a television-radio-film professor, who set up the panel.
Moller selected four students to serve on the panel and quiz Alda, two from the Television-Radio-Film Department in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and two acting and design students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
Each panelist will ask Alda a couple of questions and then questions will be taken from the audience, Moller said.
Eamon Brenna, one of the four students selected, hopes to find out the details and background behind Alda.
"I'd like to focus on why Alda has made the choices he has," said the television-radio-film major. "I feel that Newhouse gets too focused on the how and not the why. Alda has had a long and multifaceted career. He's touched so many different subjects. I want to know what drove him, what inspired him."
The Emmy award winner Alda is still relevant to students today because of his ability to span decades, Brenna said.
"Alda represents an idea. The idea that one artist can grow and flourish in many different mediums," Brenna said. "He's an actor, a writer, a director, an author, and a philosopher among other things. He really is a spokesperson for the idea of the communication artist."
Adbrow03@syr.edu
"We wanted to show off how smart our students are," said Peter Moller, a television-radio-film professor, who set up the panel.
Moller selected four students to serve on the panel and quiz Alda, two from the Television-Radio-Film Department in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and two acting and design students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
Each panelist will ask Alda a couple of questions and then questions will be taken from the audience, Moller said.
Eamon Brenna, one of the four students selected, hopes to find out the details and background behind Alda.
"I'd like to focus on why Alda has made the choices he has," said the television-radio-film major. "I feel that Newhouse gets too focused on the how and not the why. Alda has had a long and multifaceted career. He's touched so many different subjects. I want to know what drove him, what inspired him."
The Emmy award winner Alda is still relevant to students today because of his ability to span decades, Brenna said.
"Alda represents an idea. The idea that one artist can grow and flourish in many different mediums," Brenna said. "He's an actor, a writer, a director, an author, and a philosopher among other things. He really is a spokesperson for the idea of the communication artist."
Adbrow03@syr.edu
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