Ellen Burstyn and Diane Ladd in a scene from "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
Featured on the October 2, 2015 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
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What are some of the special challenges first-generation college students face in completing their higher education? Mark McLemore talks with Juan Garcia, a professor at the University of Arizona who was the first in his family to graduate college, and Nubia Gonzalez-Villalba, a 3rd year student at the U of A who is making her family's college dream come true...
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The acclaimed Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore was filmed in Tucson forty years ago. The Tucson Festival of Films presents an anniversary screening of a restored print of the film at the Loft Cinema on October 10th. Mark McLemore talks with the film's star Ellen Burstyn, who won a best actress Oscar, and her co-star Diane Ladd, who created the memorable character of Alice's streetwise waitress mentor Flo...
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And, what is the Tucson Festival of Films, anyway? Chris Dashiell looks at some highlights of this month's inaugural event, that provides a new way to explore the large number of independent and foreign movies that play in Tucson each year as part of eight other local film festivals...
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Listen to Ellen Burstyn talk about Same Time Next Year, playing the role of God, and working on director Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar:
Listen to Diane Ladd talk about her new book of fiction, her career as a director, working with Bruce Dern and Laura Dern, and what she would most like to do beyond acting:
University of Arizona student Nubia Gonzalez-Villalba and history professor Juan Garcia talk to Mark McLemore about being the first in their families to attend college.
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