Ink on the Screen: Part 1

Part One: Newspapers drive the plot of countless movies, from the classic “Citizen Kane” to “Spotlight” and countless noir sizzlers. Old-time journalist (Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, etc.) and movie buff Tom Ferguson will entertain and inform with newspaper war stories and insights into some of his favorite ink-stained films. Smoking, Drinking, Language, Flashing Lights (but only in the video clips shown).

Part Two of the double feature (Thursday, September 11) will cover entirely different content.

Tom W. Ferguson worked as an editor and reporter at several of the country’s smallest newspapers and two of its biggest (the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News), before moving on to what he calls “free-lance word-pushing” — mostly editing and ghosting books and speeches. He is so old that he and his Free Press colleagues had pre-VCR popcorn parties with a rented movie and 16 mm projector.

Coordinator: Linda Ferguson 402-679-7669

With a special Program introduction by Doug Pugh