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At Gilcrease Museum This Weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, a "John Ford Film Festival"

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published March 5, 2015 at 2:36 PM CST

Aired on Thursday, March 5th.

On this edition of ST, we speak by phone with Joseph Malham, a Chicago-based writer and iconographer, who will soon appear here in Tulsa at the Gilcrease Museum. Malham is the author of "John Ford: Poet in the Desert," and he'll speak about the life and work of the legendary filmmaker Ford (1894-1973) tomorrow, Friday the 6th, at noon at the museum. In particular, Malham will talk about how iconic Western artists like Frederic Remington (and others whose paintings grace the Gilcrease collection) influenced John Ford's stylized approach to making movies. Moreover, Malham's address will kick off a two-day "John Ford Film Festival" happening at Gilcrease over the weekend, on both the 7th and 8th. Also on today's ST, Barry Friedman offers a moving and insightful commentary, voiced from the P.O.V. of a young boy, called "Gregory's Story."

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Rich Fisher

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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