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A Statewide Association Serving
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MEETING DATES AND SPEAKER
PROFILES
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September 8 - History and food,
a prize-winning Southern legacy
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Joe Dabney
makes a special trip down out of the North Georgia mountains to be with
us this month. Dabney will give members and guests a humorous view of the “mountain philosophers” he met and interviewed in researching and writing his latest book, Smokehouse Ham, |
Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine. The book won the James Beard Foundation’s top book award for 1999 at its Awards ceremony in New York. This is the culinary equivalent to the Academy Awards. Smokehouse is now in its eighth printing and is available in hardback and paperback. You may buy a copy at the September 8 meeting. At the end of his talk, Dabney will open the floor to questions as to how he researched and wrote Smokehouse and will tell something more about his current project, a book on the last days of the Cherokee nation in Georgia. That’s what he’s doing up in that cabin on Fox Mountain, just southwest of Chattanooga. |
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October 13 - Hometown boy makes
good... writing for the movies
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How do you become a screenwriter? How do you get an agent? These are the most commonly asked questions professional screenwriter Michael Lucker is asked. And just two of the ones he’ll be answering at this month’s meeting. An Atlanta native, Lucker grew up in the theaters at Perimeter Mal, where his imagination was ignited by such films as ROCKY, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and LETHAL WEAPON. Lucker attended Boston University where he studied film production and wrote his first screenplay. After graduation, he landed green and penniless in Hollywood, then found a job as assistant to Steven Spielberg. After serving Spielberg on INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE and ALWAYS, Lucker |
went on to become a screenwriter. He has since optioned a bevy of scripts, has four animated films in production and claims Wes Craven’s "Vampire In Brooklyn" on his resume of produced films. Having never warmed to the City of Angels, Lucker returned
to what he terms a “better quality of life” in Atlanta where
he enjoys hiking with “Bozzy,” his yellow lab, and playing drums
in his rock band, Midlife Crisis. He commutes twice a month to
Los Angeles for meetings with the studios. |
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