Phil Donahue To Offer Sneak Preview Of Documentary, Share True Story Of A Soldier's Life After War In Iraq
Phil Donahue To Offer Sneak Preview Of Documentary, Share True Story
Of A Soldierâs Life After War In Iraq
FAIRFIELD â A special presentation of Fairfield Universityâs Open Visions Forum will feature Phil Donahue, the multiple Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, who will premiere selected scenes from his moving documentary about an Iraq War veteran with a life-changing disability. The screening is scheduled on Thursday, October 19, at 7 pm, in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. It will mark the first time parts of the documentary will be shown to the public. Mr Donahueâs accompanying talk is entitled âLife After the War: A True Story About an American Soldier.â
Open Visions Forum is a program of University College at Fairfield University. Through an ongoing series of lively and informative lectures the âpublic conversationsâ present eminent opinion-makers, artists, authors, learned contributors to the humanities and sciences and civic and political commentators to engage the university audience and enrich the region intellectually and culturally.
Mr Donahue will discuss what compelled him to make the documentary, which explores the life of Thomas Young, a US Army Specialist who became paralyzed below the chest on April 4, 2004, his fourth day in Iraq. He had been moved to sign up for the military after 9/11.
The event will be a benefit for St Jude Childrenâs Research Hospital, the Memphis, Tenn.-based pediatric treatment and research facility. Mr Donahueâs wife, the actress and author Marlo Thomas, has long raised funds for the noted hospital, which was founded by her father, the entertainer Danny Thomas.
Philip Eliasoph, PhD, the director and moderator of Open Visions Forum, expects the evening will serve as a vehicle for both reflection and dialogue.
Tickets are $20 for adults, and $5 for students in college and high school with identification cards. For ticket information, call 203-254-4010 or toll free at 877-ARTS-396. This program is not part of the series 2006-07 Open Vision subscription.
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