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More than 1,000 attendees came out in support of Austin philanthropists performing at the 17th Annual Dancing with the Stars Austin. The gala, hosted at the JW Marriott Grand Ballroom, raised a record $2.6 million for the Center for Child Protection and its work to support victims of child abuse in Travis County.

The show’s Dance Director, Glenn Ball, crafted an unforgettable performance showcased by an ensemble of 10 celebrity dancers and their professional partners. Emcees Glenn Balland Holly Mills-Gardner kept the audience cheering throughout the night. Event chairs, Betsy Hudson and Stephanie O’Neill, alongside the committee behind Dancing with the Stars Austin, ensured that this celebrated annual event surpassed all expectations. The evening’s judges were Becca Tobin, J.R. Martinez and Jeff Jumonville.

After 10 routines that brought the audience to their feet, Nasreen Shahi and professional partner Eric Young’s Cha

Cha was awarded the coveted Mirror Ball trophy and title of 2023 Dancing with the Stars Austin Champions. Brooke Nichol won the Fundraising and Awareness award as well as first runner-up with her professional partner Tristan Reimann, while Amy Beard and professional partner Nolan Whitely were awarded second runner-up. James Klingman and professional partner Maira Montes won the Dancer’s Choice Award.

In addition to the dance competition, guests enjoyed a live auction. The evening ended with an after-party with music from DJ Mixer Rogers. One lucky winner went home with a 2024 Mercedes-Benz C-300 Sedan two-year lease or $20,000 credit toward the purchase of a new vehicle from Mercedes-Benz of Austin.

The Center for Child Protection is a nationally accredited children’s advocacy center and the only nonprofit in Travis County involved in the investigation and prosecution of crimes against children. For more information visit centerforchildprotection.org.

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Valentine’s Memories

WEST AUSTINITES TELL OF FOND MEMORIES

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Compiled by Forrest Preece

I sat appropriately attired in our hot tub, filled with bubbles and rose petals, lingering with a glass of champagne. I thought of my sweet, handsome husband Bruce who would love my surprise. Suddenly I heard a small “yip yip.” Bruce appeared holding a small white dog! It was a tiny, precious Bichon Frise we named Casper, who was our baby for years.

— Christine Clore Anderson

My husband Mike has given me the same Valentine’s card at least three times. It’s a little froggy perched on a heart-shaped lily pad. Each time he hands it over, he looks so excited — like he’s found the best greeting card that’s

After the lockdown for COVID and Snowmaggedon that began Feb. 14, 2021, my husband Brad and I were ready to kick up our heels in a warm environment this past year and make up for lost time. We spent Valentine’s Day 2023 traveling with friends in Egypt where we toured Abu Simbel Temple and cruised the Nile River. From there we flew to Vietnam to meet Austin friends and travel buddies to cruise Halong Bay and up the Red River on a riverboat. These two trips were separate journeys that we had to cancel during COVID, and we decided to do them back-to-back. Travel is our escape; so many of our special moments are spent abroad. We used to take a “big” trip on only “0 birthdays,” but now, we feel like every day should be an “0 birthday”!

ever existed. And then he gets Valentine’s amnesia, sees it in the grocery aisle the following year, and we do it all over again. I look forward to seeing that little frog for many years to come.

— Dorothy Guerrero, Editor-in-Chief,

the Alcalde magazine

Since the early ’90s, I have presented “Christine Albert’s Valentine’s French Show” at numerous venues around Austin. It has always been a major workday for me, as it was for my first husband Ernie Gammage and is for my current husband Chris Gage. The show itself is a labor of love.

My favorite Valentine’s Day was 2003, when Chris and I announced to the audience at Wild Basin Nature Preserve that we were engaged. After the gig, we walked down the path into the preserve and decided to get married there, which we did on May 10, 2003. — Christine Albert, Swan Songs Founder & CEO

BY FORREST PREECE

Every large city has a handful of designers whose names are synonymous with the “major league” annual fundraising events.

In Austin, Patrick Landrum is in that rarified constellation, and given West Austin News’s role of chronicling social events, I decided that it was high time I wrote about him.

Patrick grew up in a military family that moved from Fort Sill, Oklahoma to Taipei to Colorado Springs to Austin. Those changing environments gave him a variety of perspectives and enhanced his design sense. His grandmother Ruby in Dallas also had a significant impact on him, because she was constantly reworking her house with spectacular results.

He says that his favorite toys were Tinkertoys and Lincoln Logs. His sister had a Barbie’s Dream House full of cardboard mid-century furniture, which was subject to a lot of rearranging by a young Patrick. Other passions of his included fashion, the sleek car designs of the 1960s, and dressing up in his crested red dinner jacket and bow tie to attend formal Officers’ Club functions. “That’s where I fell in love with galas. I knew I wanted to attend them when I grew up, but I never dreamed of designing them!”

At UT Austin, Patrick decided on interior design as a major and through some fortunate circumstances, including a deft answer to her question about what style he liked, he landed a job with high-end designer and

social figure Nancy Peavy-Moos. Nancy preferred the construction design aspect of the work, and she began delegating almost all the wallpaper and fabric selections for clients to Patrick.

His first project was selecting the wallpapers and fabrics for the restoration of a historic German residential compound in Fredericksburg for famed Western Artist G. Harvey Jones and his wife Patti, and their Westgate Tower downtown condominium. Over the next 10 years he would work with Nancy on luxury homes, offices, and as the Buyer Selection Consultant for Hampton Homes and Bill Milburn Homes.

In the early 1990s, Nancy was selected as the Interior Designer for a large high tech company’s executive offices and Executive Briefing Center, as well as a residence for one of the top executives, and Patrick was the Associate Designer for the projects. Working closely with some of the execs, he convinced them that “everyone should have a designer” and quickly built up his own clientele at Nancy’s firm.

In 1992 it was time to branch out, and PL&D/Patrick Landrum Design was formed. Patrick continued working with Nancy alongside his own firm until 1995. PL&D celebrated 30 years of Luxury Interior Design in November 2022.

AN INVITATION TO THE PARTY SCENE

By chance in the mid-1990s, Patrick fell into the gala design world when a client asked him to donate a design package to an upcoming Opera Ball. That brought him awareness within that circle. In 1995 he decided to join the auction committee of the Opera Guild.

The event chairs

Amy Hooper and Lynne Gambrill talked with Joe McClain, the general director at the time, and decided they wanted to do a “Cabaret”-inspired theme.

However, the Opera’s old guard wanted an elegant and traditional event. Patrick realized that he could make both concepts work in tandem, and he was quickly tapped to design the concept and décor for Espana, the 1995 Opera Ball. The event was a great success, hailed by West Austin News social columnist Robert Godwin, as “particularly spectacular!” Patrick was hooked and thrilled that designing for galas gave him the opportunity to showcase his design ability, without a hard sell. He would go on to design the concepts and decor for over seventeen gala fundraisers and dinners for The Austin Opera, Ballet Austin, Austin Musical Theater (he was a Founding Board Member), Austin Cabaret Theater, HRC Austin (Human Rights Campaign), Forklift Danceworks, The UT Charter School, and OutYouth Austin. Six times, he co-chaired gala auctions.

of that committee would meet with each designer and get the instructions about how to clean and care for the items in the space for the two weeks the show ran. I didn’t know the ins and outs of how the behind-the-scenes things happened, so when I met the two committee chairs, (one if I remember correctly, was Alice

maids! She was straight-faced when she was scolding me, and I was crushed, until finally she cracked up and told me how much everyone loved hearing about my mistake.”

Patrick never really knew how things would turn out when he came up with some wild ideas.

Several Austin Opera projects

Then there was the tractor they brought in, along with bales of hay for the Opera’s “A Grande Texas Ball” in 2003 at the Four Seasons. For months after that, hotel staffers kept teasing him that they were still picking hay out of the vacuum cleaners.

In 2021, he installed five working three-tiered fountains, each four feet high, in the Four Seasons Ballroom Foyer for the Opera’s “La Dolce Vita.” These fountains gave him nightmares about leaking and ruining the hotel’s carpets. This project included creating a human water line with buckets to fill them, and lining people up again to empty them after the event.

Scarbrough), I assumed they were the maids. So I asked them for a card, because I had some clients looking for new housekeepers. They went along with it and of course had a good laugh with Penny Powell, Deb Davis Groves, and the full committee. The night of the opening night party, Penny grabbed me as I was walking in the front door saying she ‘had a bone to pick with me’ and I was shocked and totally freaked out. She then instructed me not to try and hire Symphony League members to be housekeepers and

stand out. His vision for “Club Seville” at Espana 1995, included having the floor covered in thick fog, and 10-foot wide by six-foot high Miro-inspired mobiles hung from the ceiling that would spin with the HVAC airflow. Since they couldn’t put nails into the ceiling, he used rods in the movable wall tracks and had the mobiles made of PVC pipe and foam core board, so it was very lightweight. The hotel remained unscathed, but apparently another event tried to do something similar that did cause damage, so no more hangings.

Looking at the changes he has seen in the “big event” fundraising scene over the past three decades, Patrick says that many groups have finally embraced the idea of making an event spectacular to have an impact on the final numbers. He says that it’s not just a love of the cause that makes people donate and support, and it’s naïve to think so. Donors and sponsors need to feel special, to feel that they are truly appreciated.

“I know when an event is over the top and has something unique that excites its attendees, they get exponentially more excited and caught up in the moment – and then the cash flows in. Yes, it’s a gamble, but I think it’s worth it.

In 1996, Penny Powell, who had chaired the 1994 Opera Ball and was the Opera Guild President in 1995, was co-chairing the 1997 Women’s Symphony League of Austin’s Designer Showhouse with Deb Davis Groves. Because of his work on the décor and auction for the Opera events, they honored him with an invitation to be a designer in the 1997 Showhouse. This would be his first Showhouse space on his own. Suddenly he was catapulted into the big leagues, and standing beside many of his idols within Austin’s design world. Literally overnight Patrick went from working on $250,000-$650,000 properties to multi-million dollar estates. He would go on to be a designer in nine WSL Showhouses, and in 2000, he chaired Zach Scott’s Premiere Designer Showhouse.

FUN TIMES AND STORIES TO MATCH

All these galas and the high spirits that accompany them have produced some humorous stories.

In Patrick’s own words:

“There’s the time I tried to hire some of the Symphony League ladies to clean my clients’ houses! One of the committees for the Designer Showcase showhouses was housekeeping, and the chairs

Black History Month and Austin’s Iconic Muny Golf Course

By Anne DeVries

Black History Month was initiated in 1976 to recognize Black Americans’ contributions to the United States of America. February was selected specifically to capture the birthdays of two great Americans who shaped black history, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

Lion’s Municipal Golf Course, nicknamed Muny, is a monument to the civil rights movement. Established 100

PHOTOS BY ALAN POGUE

years ago this year, it was the first municipal golf course in the South to be peacefully desegregated. This pivotal contribution has gained it the honor of being named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

On January 19th of this year, our nation’s day of tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., the Muny Conservancy welcomed the National President and

CEO of the NAACP, Derrick Johnson, and President of the Texas NAACP, Gary Bledsoe, for a public event at Lion’s. Johnson announced to attendees the full support of the NAACP in saving all 141 acres and 18 holes of Lions from being developed by the landowner, the University of Texas at Austin.

In Johnson’s address to the audience, he stated, “Golf is a game of power, a vehicle that

has been utilized to advance business and policy and build relationships with some of the most influential individuals in our society. As we work to advance progress for our community, it is crucial that we preserve and create new pathways for Black America to have access to the game of golf”. Muny sits on property originally donated to the University of Texas in 1910 by Col. George Washington Brackenridge. In 1924, the Austin Lions Club negotiated a lease for a

portion of the property to become a municipal golf course.

In 2019, the lease between the City of Austin and the University of Texas expired. The site has operated on a five-month rolling lease since the expiration. Despite continuous efforts by the Muny Conservancy to permanently secure the property for the community and prevent commercial development by the University of Texas, no agreement has been reached.

There is a great duty for a

city to maintain the symbolism represented in a Historic Landmark such as Muny in the civil rights movement. The Save Muny Forever community is committed to establishing a permanent solution for preserving Lion’s Municipal Golf Course for the community and Black American History. For more information about how to support the Muny Conservancy and its plans for its 100th-year anniversary, visit www.themunyconservancy. com.

WAYA’s Legacy Luncheon Honors Board Members, Supporters and Staff

The Long Center Presents 2024 Icon Awards

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By Anne DeVries

On February 13, WAYA (West Austin Youth Association) held a Legacy Luncheon for past board members, current board members, community volunteers, financial supporters, and WAYA staff. The current president of WAYA, Brent Metschan, welcomed attendees and thanked them for their continued support. WAYA Executive Director Melissa Morrow honored the staff and legacy members, and Director of Operations Rich Morrison spoke about current updates on the facility and plans for the future.

During her address to the audience, Morrow honored the contributions made by three alumni WAYA board members who passed away last year. Ed Auler, Tom Ezell, and Jennifer Monday Goldman. “Each of them contributed their time, talent, and treasures to WAYA and, in return, created amazing memories with their kids, grandkids, friends, and neighbors, and will live on. We will miss all three.” Morrow stated. Morrow introduced the staff of WAYA who were in attendance and recognized their unwavering dedication to the daily operations, which “provides a safe and fun place for families to gather and play.” She honored two staff members who have been serving WAYA for 20 years. Assistant Teacher Bonnie Bratton and Fi-

nance Director Suzanne Starkey were recognized for their service and long-time contributions to WAYA. Morrison announced that WAYA will embark on a stateof-the-art multi-purpose field starting November 2024. He stated that the large field size would provide a means for WAYA to define the space to match the program needs and “more than double the current number of core programming fields for outdoor sports.”

Last year, there were over 16,000 registrations for activities at WAYA. In the past 40 years, they have served over 150,000 families through sports, WAYA Preschool, camps, and after-school programs. Well known for its annual Fun Day held on the WAYA campus each spring, the contributions to community building by WAYA are inspiring.

This year’s Fun Day will be held on April 5. Chairs for the event this year include Katherine Goehring, Linsey Nixon, Katie Romano, and Erin Stephens. Various levels of sponsorship opportunities are still available for 2024 Fun Day and can be found on the WAYA website at www.WAYA.org under the Family Day tab. Family Day is the biggest annual fundraiser for WAYA and is critical to continuing the programs offered each year.

If you have not already, make attending WAYA’s Fun Day a yearly tradition for your family.

Event Helps Pave Path to College for First-in-Family Students

More than 300 supporters of Breakthrough Central Texas, Austin’s nonprofit organization that creates a path to college for students from under-resourced communities, gathered for the annual Breakthrough Benefit Concert chaired by Michael and Kaitlin Ramirez and Ricky D. Green. The event featured a theme of collective courage – the impact we can all have when we come together as a community - with a message from Breakthrough student sisters Zion and Robin, and a show-stopping performance by Sir Woman.

Supporters generously contributed over $75,000 in donations to propel the growth of Breakthrough’s College and Career Success program, and coupled with event sponsorships and silent auction bids, the fundraising total surpassed $530,000. An event

night matching gift challenge of $100,000 was extended by Jeanette and Ernest Auerbach, Christie and Clinton Bybee, and Stephanie and Todd Routh.

Breakthrough Benefit Concert Host Committee members were Kelsey Van Meter and Benjamin Baudouin, Christian and Penny Bergstrom, Holly and Jim Bohart, Irma and Jim Brand, Amber Carden, Selma and Blaise D’Mello, Aly Gonzales, Grace Holland , Pirie Humphries, Kelley and Billy Humphries, Sarah Lacy and Bennett Maddox, Stephanie and Todd Routh, Patricia Henna Rowe and Mark Rowe, Eddie Safady, Mary Garwood Yancy and Howard Yancy, and Tito and Tere Vidaurri.

For more information about Breakthrough Central Texas, visit www.breakthroughctx.org.

St. Michael’s Catholic Academy Winter Term Explores Student Interests

By Anne DeVries

Following Christmas break each year, high school students at St. Michael’s Catholic Academy (SMCA) embark on a unique opportunity for career exploration, personal growth, and discovery of interests. The 3-week long session called “Winter Term” just wrapped up its 8th year in the curriculum of the college preparatory high school in West Austin.

SMCA was the first high school in Austin to institute a Winter Term of specialized study. Students are given a Winter Term Catalog each academic year during the fall semester. The catalog presents options for mini-courses or travel experiences during the 3-week term. Juniors and Seniors can build internship plans for a meaningful threeweek internship experience.

Winter Term 2024 was full of diverse mini-course options in areas ranging from Business and Finance, Ethics and Spirituality, Literature and Fine Arts, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Personal Growth. Courses address academically rigorous topics that do not typically fit into the traditional curriculum. Students opting for only a mini-course curriculum during the term can choose four classes from

the nearly 90 available options. Travel options for Winter Term include global and domestic learning trips. They may focus on language and cultural study or community service and sightseeing. Trips may consist of an academic course taught by a St. Michael’s teacher in a setting outside the United States. In 2024, overseas travel options included trips to Italy, France, and the Dominican Republic.

The St. Michael’s Internship Program allows students to locate and craft a meaningful three-week internship experience. Either identified by the school or through community engagement, internships are designed to explore a potential career path for the student. Experiences in 2024 ranged from internships in the medical field, journalism, finance, interior design, and more.

Winter Term at SMCA allows students to expand their awareness of themselves and the world through immersive and intensive learning experiences not available in the regular curriculum. This learning initiative reflects St. Michael’s ongoing effort to enrich students’ academic experiences in their high school years.

O. Henry girls basketball: City Champions

The undefeated O. Henry Middle School girls basketball team beat an undefeated Gorzycki Middle School team 47-20 in city playoffs just before winter break to become City Champions. Team members are Caroline ZumBerge, Me-

gan Kolerich, Anna Kime, MaryLee Silvers, Brynn Tidmore, Annie Burpo, Lyle Dunlap, Carmen Skloss, Coco Jastrow, Elena Valadez, Kate Dyess, Jena Castillo, and Maria Shirk. The girls were coached by Crystall Gaffney and Kristine Kobs.

Obituary Sander “Sandy” Shapiro (1929-2024)

Sander Shapiro, a pillar of Austin’s legal and civic communities, died in February 2024. He lived his life by setting an example of what could be accomplished, and he went about his work as a soft-spoken, intelligent gentleman. Few people have had as much impact on Austin.

After moving back to Austin from Washington, DC, where he had started his law career, Sandy took a job with Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius and Winters (later Clark, Thomas, Winters and Shapiro), and was the first tax lawyer in Austin. Decades later, he and his closest colleagues left Clark Thomas to form a new firm, Shapiro, Edens and Cook.

Sandy’s work as a lawyer was both demanding and fun. His law practice often involved travel throughout Texas and the U.S., and sometimes to far-flung locations, including Tahiti and Rome. Notably, he was called upon to argue a case before a Vatican tribunal composed of two Archbishops and a Cardinal. Sandy was hugely influential in the development of sales tax, use tax and franchise tax law in Texas. In 2015, he was named Outstanding Tax Lawyer and heralded as a “Texas Tax Legend” by the Texas State Bar Tax Section, where he was an active member and frequent speaker. Sandy also served as an adjunct professor at UT Law School for 10 years and in 1984, gave the keynote address at his daughter Julie’s Law School graduation.

Sandy and his wife Lottie became prominent leaders on Austin’s social scene, and he poured his intellect and energy into many community, legal and civic organizations. He served as Chair of the National Association of State Bar Tax Sections. He was financial Vice President and a Board Member of the Austin Symphony for 25 years, and was very involved with the Ronald McDonald House in Austin (serving as president of the Board in 1994-95 and being honored with the Men With Caring Hearts Award in 2017).

He was involved in the Austin Community Foundation from its inception, and he served as its Chair of the Board for several years. In addition, Sandy served as the head of the KLRU Board and chaired Capital Metro, the

University of Texas Press, and the UT College of Fine Arts Advisory Council at various times. He was also a member of the Headliners Club, the Tuesday Club, and Town and Gown for decades.

Imagination and creativity were also strong talents of his. For many years, Sandy wrote theatrical musicals for the Jewish community that raised money and were enjoyed by all of Austin.

In addition to Lottie, Sandy is survived by his daughters Julie (and husband Richard) Schechter, and Susan (and husband Mike) Schmitz, along with grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and other family members.

Sandy’s family wishes to express their heartfelt gratitude to his longtime caregiver Emerald Wilson, and to Hospice Austin. Please visit Sandy’s tribute page at AustinNaturalFunerals.com to share fond memories and expressions of sympathy.

Scout Sunday at The Church at Highland Park

By Alana Moehring Mallard

Scouts, leaders, and families of Troop 410, Troop 2019, and Pack 55 reported on Scout Sunday recently to the congregation of The Church at Highland Park, and assisted in the Sunday worship service. The church has chartered the scouts since 1956. Scout groups meet at the church weekly and for special events on weekends.

Troop 410 patrol leaders Logan Chen and Jacob Mikesh reported on activities and advancements of Troop 410’s 54 scouts, including 234 merit badges this year and many scouts ranking up. “You helped us become independent and strong leaders in the community,” Logan told the congregation.

Chris Ulack, cubmaster for Pack 55, reported on the pack’s trip to Inks Lake for the annular eclipse, as well as fishing and compass work; and on the pack’s overnighter to the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi. “For all these scouts and all the scouts to come, we are so thankful for this space,” Ulack said of Pack 55’s weekly meetings at Highland Park.

“We talk to each other not

as friends, but as brothers,” Jacob said of the scouts of Troop 410 as he reported to

the congregation, “and for this we thank you for the decades of support.”

Conspirare, A Company of Voices, led by Grammy-winning musician Craig Hella Johnson, celebrated its 11th Grammy Award nomination recently. The nominated CD, “House of Belonging,” was the first collaboration of this internationally-acclaimed Austin choir with the renowned Miró Quartet.

KMFA’s Draylen Mason studio was the site of the Grammy Awards Show watch party, complete with fans, board members, artists, staff, and supporters who have shared the experience of Conspirare for the last 30 years. The event included trivia fun from Board Chairwoman Nancy Lesch and a reveal of the theme of Conspirare’s annual fundraiser.

Hidden Music is the gala concert Conspirare fans enjoy every spring, and this year’s event is on track to be the largest in the organization’s history with Hella Johnson at piano with a quartet of Conspirare singers and the Symphonic Choir.

Hidden Music Committee Chair Marvin Brittman announced this year’s theme:

KEY TO THE CURE

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Brings Cure A Step Closer

Key to the Cure, benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, was held at the Fair Market venue on East 5th Street raising over $400,000 for the Foundation and bringing a cure for cystic fibrosis one step closer.

Guests welcomed back celebrity Chef Tim Love of Fort Worth and owner and chef of local restaurant Lonesome Dove Western Bistro who served a coastal seafood themed cuisine with his signature western spin including mini lobster rolls, crab risotto with white truffles and prime rib. Chef Tim Love was joined by Austin Oyster Company serving fresh raw oysters. Marshall Newhouse and Jake Kirkpatrick co-chaired

the event. Lou Marchetti, chair emeritus and master of ceremonies, did not disappoint with his Top Gun serenade early in the evening and certainly got the crowd’s attention before introducing key speaker Steph Hansen, who is currently living with cystic fibrosis, to come on stage and share her amazing story and inspiring view on life. London Calling, a local band, got everyone on their feet and dancing until late into the evening.

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WHERE I’M COMING FROM Paul Beutel

BY FORREST PREECE

Retired performing arts administrator

1. What’s something about you that not many people know?

I performed in a number of local musical theatre productions in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, even winning the B. Iden Payne Award for Best Actor for ZACH’s “Chicago.” It’s too long ago now, and no one remembers.

2. What was your first job?

First job to earn money: errand boy for my uncle’s insurance agency; first full-time job: Entertainment writer/reviewer for Austin American-Statesman.

3. If you could have dinner with three people – dead or alive, at any time in history— who would they be?

Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Barack Obama

4. If you had to pick three musicians for a playlist, who would they be?

Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand

5. Favorite book and TV show?

John Knowles’ “A Separate Peace”; “I Love Lucy”

6. Most powerful movie you have seen?

“Schindler’s List”

7. Favorite place in Austin?

The Paramount Theatre

8. Favorite restaurant and watering hole?

Chez Zee; the old, long-gone Common Interest on Medical Parkway.

9. What did you want to be when you were growing up? I had no idea. But I did know that I loved movies and everything “show biz.”

10. Which living person do you most admire?

Al Gore -- (we should have listened!)

11. What makes you happy?

Being with people I love.

12. Best advice you ever received?

“Never Put Your Money In the Show!” (Max Bialystock in “The Producers”)

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