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Free outdoor film screenings are 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday on the Great Lawn at Myriad Botanical Gardens. | Photo provided
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story are deadCenter’s free, outdoor features. By Ben Luschen
Outdoor Limits 25 more times. deadCenter Film Festival deadCenter hosts free outdoor screenings Vintage footage mesmerizes screenings 9:30 p.m. Friday and alongside sets from Townes Van Zandt, Ray Charles and Saturday on the Great Lawn E.T. the Merle Haggard. at Myriad Botanical Gardens, Extra-Terrestrial 301 W. Reno Ave. Festival Austin City Limits is as 9:30 p.m. Friday organizers expect crowds of relevant today as it was then. around 2,000 each night. Wilco, Radiohead and Beck A Song for You: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial each shine in the The Austin City screens Friday as the documentary. Its real star, Limits Story festival’s Flashback Friday however, is Terry Lickona, 9:30 p.m. Saturday feature. Oklahoma-born film the show’s famed producer Great Lawn editor Carol Littleton, known and visionary. Lickona never Myriad Botanical for her work on the 1982 runs out of stories. Gardens Steven Spielberg-directed deadCenter Executive 301 W. Reno Ave. box office behemoth, also is Director Lissa Blaschke said deadcenterfilm.org one of this year’s deadCenter the free, outdoor public 405-246-9233 screenings are one of the Icon Award recipients. Free E.T. became the highest most exciting aspects of the See related stories festival. grossing movie of all time (a and the festival “I think it’s great that we record that stood until 1993, program when Spielberg beat it with do these free outdoor films,” in this issue. Jurassic Park). It also she said. “That’s something launched child actress Drew you don’t usually see at other Barrymore into stardom. film festivals.” Saturday’s screening features possibly If the events are rained out, they move the festival’s most fun and upbeat inside to Harkins Bricktown Cinemas 16, documentary, A Song for You: The Austin 150 E. Reno Ave. City Limits Story. Austin, Texas, filmmaker Keith Maitland directed the inside look at Myriad’s deadCenter the historic and widely successful Austin Myriad’s Great Lawn also hosts the free City Limits public television program as it kidFest community event, which runs 11 celebrates its 40th year. a.m.-noon Saturday. Food trucks also will Austin City Limits brought world-class be out by the lawn all day Saturday. concerts into American living rooms before Nonprofit partners The Kirkpatrick Foundation, Oklahoma City Animal the show expanded into a high-profile music festival. Maitland’s documentary takes Welfare, The Bella Foundation and Central viewers from the show’s Nashville-flavored Oklahoma Humane Society also host country origins to its current celebration Animal WelFair 9 a.m.-noon Saturday. The of everything under the wide “indie” Cleats for Kids Summer Kick Off Party is umbrella. noon-3 p.m. and features activities for Austin’s dynamic music scene motivated children ages 10 and older. “Our whole philosophy is being part of Willie Nelson out of an early retirement in the early ’70s and precluded his transition the community and helping the community into the outlaw country genre he’s so welland working in the community,” Blasckhe known for, so it makes sense that one of that said. “I think it’s just natural for us since city’s greatest heroes was the show’s first we’re in a nonprofit and we have so many performer. Nelson says in A Song for You nonprofit partners to do something like that he would go on to play Austin City this.”