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January 15, 2002
Alec Baldwin Stars in "The Artist as Activist" at Southampton CollegeFree and Open to the Public, Thursday, January 31, at 7 p.m. in Avram Theater
Contact:
Darren Johnson (PR@southampton.liu.edu)
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081
- Film star Alec Baldwin will discuss "The Artist as Activist" as a part of The Dean's Special Lecture Series at Southampton College.
The event is free and open to the public and will be held in the College's Avram Theater at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 31. Hosting the event is Southampton College Dean James Larocca. It is co-sponsored by the College's Honors Program. For further information, contact (631) 287-8308.
Whether in regional theater or on "Saturday Night Live," blockbuster movies or Broadway, literary festivals or television mini-series, Alec Baldwin has balanced his love of communicating with an audience with his activism and the demands of a motion-picture career.
On Broadway, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the 1992 revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," and also was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the television movie of that same production. He won an Obie Award for the 1991 Off-Broadway production of Craig Lucas' "Prelude to a Kiss" and a Theatre World Award in 1986 for his turn in Joe Orton's "Loot" on Broadway.
Baldwin has starred in several films, including "The Hunt for Red October," "Miami Blues," "Prelude to a Kiss," "Malice," "The Getaway," "The Shadow," "Glengarry Glen Ross," "Heaven's Prisoners," "Ghosts of Mississippi" and "The Edge," among others. His production company, El Dorado Pictures, has co-produced "The Confession" (winner of the 2000 Writers Guild Award for best adapted screenplay by David Black) for Cinemax Television, "Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial" for Turner Network Television, and "State and Main," a motion picture comedy written and directed by David Mamet.
Baldwin is an outspoken supporter of various causes related to public policy, including environmentalism, the government's support of the arts, campaign finance reform, animal rights and gun control. At his upcoming lecture at Southampton College, Baldwin will discuss the relationship between being an artist and how it affects the issues that are dear to his heart. He is a resident of Amagansett, N.Y.
James Larocca holds a similar love of public policy. Named Dean of Southampton College on September 1, he also serves as the Keyspan Distinguished Chair in Public Policy, teaching at Southampton College and at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
Larocca has had a rich and varied career in government and politics, business, the law and academe. A lawyer, he served in the cabinets of two New York governors (as Commissioner of Energy and Transportation) and as President of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business and civic organization. He currently serves as Chairman of the Long Island Nature Conservancy, the major environmental preservation organization. Larocca is a combat veteran of Vietnam where he served as a naval officer in river patrol in the Mekong Delta. In 1998 he was a candidate for nomination for Governor of New York. He is also an award-winning playwright.