Kathleen Turner 
Saturday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Trustees Theater Screen veteran Kathleen Turner has garnered critical acclaim for each of her film performances.
Turner made her film debut opposite William Hurt in Lawrence Kasdan's "Body Heat" (1981). She received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year and a British Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance. Following this film, Turner starred in "The Man with Two Brains" (1983) with Steve Martin and "Crimes of Passion" (1984).
It was her role as the spinster author cum hardy adventurer in "Romancing the Stone" (1984) that established Turner as one of the best romantic comediennes of her time. She received a Golden Globe and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for her performance. "The Jewel of the Nile" (1985) followed, once again playing on the chemistry between Turner and her "Romancing the Stone" co-star Michael Douglas.
Turner continued to display her range and depth in Francis Ford Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress. Her starring role in John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor" (1985), opposite Angelica Huston and Jack Nicholson, earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
Turner's extensive film credits also include Danny DeVito's "The War of the Roses" (1989) opposite Douglas and DeVito; John Waters' "Serial Mom" (1994) opposite Sam Waterson; the film adaptation of Anne Tyler's best-selling novel "The Accidental Tourist" (1988), reuniting her with director Lawrence Kasdan and actor William Hurt; and the voice of Jessica Rabbit in director Robert Zemeckis' "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988).
Turner frequently performs in live theater as well. In 2000 she received rave reviews for her role as Mrs. Robinson in the London West End theater production based on the 1967 film "The Graduate." Turner also performed the part on Broadway. Also in 2000, Turner starred opposite James Woods and Kirsten Dunst in "The Virgin Suicides," directed by Sophia Coppola.
Widening her horizons even more, Turner is now co-hosting the national radio program "American Dialogue," a live talk show in which she and Charline Spektor provide listeners with an in-depth look at today's important issues. Guests of the show have included Walter Cronkite, Senator George Mitchell and the president of Planned Parenthood, Gloria Field.
Norman Jewison 
Sunday, October 24 at 7 p.m.
Lucas Theatre Norman Jewison has been a vibrant force in the motion picture industry for four decades. His films, including hits such as "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), "Moonstruck" (1987) and "Agnes of God" (1985), have received 46 Academy Award nominations and 12 Academy Awards. Jewison himself has been nominated for four Oscars, and in 1998 he was honored by the academy with the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his body of work that reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production.
Jewison's film debut as a director came with the 1962 comedy "40 Pounds of Trouble" starring Tony Curtis. After a string of successful studio productions, he decided to focus on independent film. His first effort, "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965), co-written and directed by Jewison and starring Steve McQueen, is now acknowledged as a classic. Since then, Jewison's films have covered a wide range of subjects and styles, from the political satire of "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" (1966) to the hit screen versions of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971) and the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1973). "Other People's Money" (1991), starring Danny DeVito and Penelope Ann Miller, became Jewison's 25th film in 28 years.
In 1986, Jewison established the Canadian Film Centre, akin to the American Film Institute in the United States. The CFC offers selected filmmakers the opportunity to hone their skills to a state-of-the-art level. Recently, the Film Centre honored Jewison with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.
Over the last decade, Jewison has taken on the role of both director and producer through his company, Yorktown Productions. In 1997 he produced the romantic comedy "For Richer or Poorer" starring Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley for Universal Pictures. "Dinner with Friends" (2001), a movie for HBO starring Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear, continued Jewison's stellar tradition, receiving nominations for the 2002 Emmy Awards.
Peter O'Toole 
Wednesday, October 27 at 7 p.m.
Trustees Theater One of the most honored actors of his generation, Peter O'Toole was recently given an honorary Academy Award for a movie career that spans four and a half decades and has included seven Oscar nominations.
Born in Ireland and raised in Yorkshire, England, O'Toole began his professional life as a journalist but soon discovered a love for the theater, which led to his stage debut at 17. Following a two-year stint as a radioman in the Royal Navy, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where future acting stars Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Tom Courtenay were among his classmates.
O'Toole spent two years onstage at the Brisol Old Vic. He made his London West End stage debut in "The Long and the Short and the Tall," for which he won the Evening Standard Best Actor Award. O'Toole then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he made his acclaimed performance as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice."
O'Toole made his film debut in Nicholas Ray's "The Savage Innocents," released in 1959. In 1962, O'Toole was chosen to play T.E. Lawrence in the David Lean epic "Lawrence of Arabia," for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. The part made O'Toole an international star. Several other Oscar nominations followed for his work in "Beckett" (1964), "The Lion in Winter" (1968), "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969), "The Ruling Class" (1972), "The Stunt Man" (1980) and "My Favorite Year" (1982).
Other career highlights include O'Toole's roles in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" (1987), "Murphy's War" (1971), "Man of La Mancha" (1972), and the television miniseries "Masada" (1981), which earned O'Toole his first Emmy nomination. He won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the television movie "Joan of Arc" (1999).
O'Toole recently appeared in Wolfgang Petersen's epic "Troy" (2004) and Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" (2003), and he received an Emmy nomination for his role as Hindenberg in the Emmy-winning miniseries "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" (2003).
Roger Ebert 
Friday, October 29 at 7 p.m.
Trustees Theater Roger Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of the top-rated television show "Ebert and Roeper," a sequel to the popular "Siskel and Ebert" movie review show he hosted with the late Gene Siskel. He has served for nearly three decades as many moviegoers' authoritative source on which films to see and which to avoid by giving the movies his ultimate judgment--a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down.
Ebert began his career at the age of 15 as a sports writer for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. Hired by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1966, he was appointed the paper's film critic within six months and has served in that capacity ever since. His syndicated film reviews now appear in more than 200 newspapers in the United States, Canada, England, Japan and Greece.
In addition to his film column, Ebert is the author of 15 books, including annual volumes of "Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook," the Norton Anthology "Roger Ebert's Book of Film," and the bestsellers "The Great Movies" and "Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary."
Ebert's love for classic, independent and overlooked movies is well known. His award-winning shot-by-shot commentary tracks on the DVD versions of films such as "Casablanca" (1942) and "Citizen Kane" (1941) serve as insiders' guides for film buffs and historians alike. Ebert also travels the country conducting his shot-by-shot film analyses for universities and film festivals. When closer to home, Ebert serves as an adjunct professor of cinema and media studies for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and as a lecturer on film for the University of Chicago, his alma mater.
In 1999, Ebert launched Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, which is presented each April at the historic Virginia Theatre in his hometown of Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
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