Production Designer Henry Bumstead and Andrew Horton, Author of New Book ``Henry Bumstead and the Art of Hollywood Art Direction'' to Conduct Reading, Q&A at Vroman's Book Store in Pasadena, Oct. 21.

Entertainment Editors

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2003

The new Andrew Horton book "Henry Bumstead and the Art of Hollywood Art Direction" (University of Texas Press, 2003) will have a reading and be the subject of discussion and Q&A by Horton and Bumstead on Tuesday, October 21, 7:00 p.m., at Vroman's Book Store, 695 Colorado Blvd., Pasadena.

Bumstead, 88, has served as Production Designer or an Art Director on 100 theatrical motion pictures, winning Oscars for "The Sting" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," as well as nominations for "Vertigo" and "Unforgiven." He has served as Production Designer on films for such directors as George Roy Hill, Robert Mulligan, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder and Mark Robson. In 1997 the Art Directors Guild voted Bumstead its Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2000 he was presented the Hollywood Film Festival's Outstanding Achievement in Production Design Award. In recent years Bumstead has been the Production Designer of choice for Director Clint Eastwood working on "Unforgiven," "Space Cowboys," "Blood Work" and Eastwood's upcoming new film "Mystic River."

Horton is the Jeanne H. Hoffman Professor of Film Studies and Director of the Film and Video Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and an award-winning screenwriter who wrote Brad Pitt's first feature film.

Horton's book tells the intertwining stories of Bumstead's career and the evolution of Hollywood Art Direction.

NOTE TO MEDIA: Electronic images of Bumstead and of Bumstead with Horton are available by contacting [e-mail].