<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Go Chuck!<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:CBEvered@aol.com">CBEvered@aol.com</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">April 15, 2010 9:56:35 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Fwd: Evered piece on AOL News today and Tomorrow</b><br></span></div><br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">hello all! Please see below, running tomorrow on AOL
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Chuck wanted to make sure you had a copy, all
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Wendy</font></div>
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<div class="entry-content" sizcache="40" sizset="71">(April 16) -- It amazes me
when I read accounts today of the comparatively non-acrimonious relationship
that existed between the military and the Hollywood establishment of yesteryear,
particularly before the war in Vietnam.<br><br>Reading accounts of major stars
who joined up to fight during World War II, of socialites and actors in Los
Angeles establishing the Hollywood Canteen and encouraging the mingling of those
who serve with those who portray, boggles the 21st century mind. <br>
<div class="enhSmall rightWrap noborder"><img alt="Image from " src="http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_gallery/6/5/658858/1271364006368.JPEG" productions?="" wonderstar="" credit:="" film.="" sailor?="" a="" about="">
<div class="credit"><font size="1"><strong>Ethan Peck, above, stars along with Emmy
winners</strong></font></div>
<div class="credit"><font size="1"><strong>Bebe Neuwirth and Peter Coyote in
<em>Adopt a Sailor</em>,</strong></font></div>
<div class="credit"><font size="1"><strong>written and directed by Charles
Evered</strong></font></div></div><br>One need not go into a long treatise about
why this doesn't happen anymore. Wars are different now. It is -- at least on
the surface -- a more complicated time. <br><br>So when I started to travel with
a tiny budgeted film I wrote and directed called "Adopt a Sailor," I girded my
loins and readied myself for a gantlet of rolling eyes and exasperated sighs of
indifference. <br><br>I had myself lived in both worlds, having joined the U.S.
Navy Reserve at a comparatively old age (in my mid-30s). My recruitment began as
I toured an aircraft carrier in San Diego while writing a script called
"Carrier" that I had sold as a pitch to DreamWorks. I met kids on that ship who
were just 18, making an annual salary of what would constitute a week's stay at
a high-end hotel on Central Park West or in Santa Monica. I was humbled by their
dedication -- and since my life had become nothing more than sitting around and
whining at Starbucks about the state of my career, something in me seized on a
chance to break out of my own complacency. <br><br>After I joined, some of my
friends were supportive, while some of them where aghast. One asked why I would
"want to take a step back like that." An actor (and ex-friend of mine) said that
he thought my joining was the same as "ending up a garbageman or something."
<br><br>So when I got the opportunity to write and direct a little film about a
sailor from Arkansas who spends the evening with a sophisticated couple from New
York City, I harbored no illusions about it jumping into a "Juno" stratosphere.
<br><br>On paper, the film is almost unmarketable -- mostly dialogue, no overt
political ax to grind, no drug deals gone bad, no effects per se, no sex, no
overt auteur directing style. (I studied with George Roy Hill at Yale, who said,
"If you want to direct, find a compelling story, hire great actors and get out
of the way.) My expectation was that we'd screen the film for patient friends
and my stunned agent on a white sheet strung across the living room at my
producer's house. <br><br>Miraculously, however, great actors <em>did</em> agree
to appear in the film, including Emmy winners Bebe Neuwirth and Peter Coyote,
who worked for about one-sixtieth of their usual salary. <br><br>And then it
went on to screen at more than 20 national and international film festivals, won
a couple of festival awards, garnered a distribution deal of its own and
actually started to get seen by people. Was it "Juno"? No. But it wasn't on a
white sheet in the living room either. <br><br>My heart was reinvigorated by the
number of people who gave our "little film that could" a chance. People who put
aside their own sometimes reflexive aversion to all things military and related
to our little story. <br><br>The truth is, "Hollywood" -- or what that word has
come to represent -- isn't as close-minded as lots of people make it out to be.
The town was fair to us. <br><br>And for a brief moment in time, I thought I saw
-- reflected in the response to my little film -- a vision of what our country
could be. Less divided. More integrated philosophically and, more important, on
the mend. <br><br><em><strong>Charles Evered is a writer and director who lives
in Los Angeles and Princeton, N.J. He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve, ending up
a lieutenant. His feature-film directing debut, "Adopt a Sailor," will be
available on DVD from Echo Bridge Entertainment on April 20. The film stars
Peter Coyote, Bebe Neuwirth and Ethan Peck. For more information about "Adopt a
Sailor," go to </strong></em><a href="http://www.adoptasailormovie.com/" target="_blank" jquery1271391180562="13"><em><strong>www.adoptasailormovie.com</strong></em></a><em><strong>. </strong></em></div></div></div></div></div>
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