Andrew Morton launches McCallum Lecture Series.PALM DESERT, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1999-- The McCallum Theatre's new "Feed Your Head" lecture series, announced last spring, gets underway on Friday, November 12, at 8 p.m., featuring Andrew Morton People named Andrew Morton include:
orig. Lady Diana Frances Spencer (born July 1, 1961, Sandringham, Norfolk, Eng.—died Aug. 31, 1997, Paris, France) Consort (1981–96) of Charles, prince of Wales. , and "Monica's Story Monica's Story is the authorized biography of Monica Lewinsky, written by Andrew Morton. Morton was also a biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales. ," about presidential paramour par·a·mour n. A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship. [Middle English, from par amour, by way of love, passionately, from Anglo-Norman : par, by Monica Lewinksy. McCallum founder and board member Mark Adams Mark Adams is a college basketball analyst on the ESPN family of networks. Adams was a college basketball coach for 17 years. He was known as a program rebuilder who took over programs that were a combined 28-54 (. sponsored the series, which also includes the nationally recognized medium James Van Praagh (January 9), author and gay activist Andrew Sullivan Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis. His political blogs are among the most widely read on the Web. (February 13), and author-actress-teacher Anna Deveare Smith (March 4). Tickets for the lecture, which will focus on the lives and tragedies of both women, are $45, $35 and $25, and are available at the McCallum box office, 73-000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, by phone at 760/340-ARTS, or on the Internet at www.mccallum-theatre.org. Morton's book about Princess Diana was the second of three he wrote about the royal, whose life was characterized by overwhelming media scrutiny from before her ultimately unhappy marriage to Prince Charles through her tragic death. Based on exclusive, secret interviews with the princess, it rose to number one on the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times best seller list, as did his biography of Lewinsky. "Monica's Story" revealed the untold story of the young woman behind the lurid headlines. She allowed Morton "to delve into the inner recesses of her heart without any editorial control -- apart from being given the chance to check the facts," he has written. He had exclusive conversations with Lewinsky, as well as her friends and family. Morton was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and was educated in Leeds and at Sussex University where he received an honors degree in history. He joined the Mirror Group Newspapers training program, working on several weekly and Sunday newspapers. Morton later became the Royal Correspondent for several newspapers including The Daily Mail, News of the World and The Daily Star. His career on Fleet Street included many royal "scoops." He broke the story on the romance between Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, as well as the news of their separation. During that time he wrote several books on the royal family, including a biography of Prince Andrew and a history of the royal yacht, Britannia. In 1988 he left newspapers to concentrate on writing books. |
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