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Ruby Wax in conversation with Carrie Fisher
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
8pm
Ruby Wax in conversation with Carrie Fisher
Sane New World:
A User’s Guide to the Normal-Crazy Mind
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
PURCHASE TICKETS
$20 General Admission seats
$34 Reserved Seats & includes Ruby Wax’ book
* a book signing follows the talk.
“I love this book more than I love Ruby. And that’s saying quite a bit…in a loud, funny voice. Yes…I love this book. And I know books. And I know love. And Ruby’s book is both.”— Carrie Fisher
“We know so little about how our minds work,” says Ruby Wax. “It’s like having a Ferrari on top of your shoulders but no one gave you the keys.”
Ruby Wax arrived in Great Britain from the U.S. in 1977 and began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company. After 25 years writing and performing in her own widely popular television shows on the BBC, and serving as Script Editor for the entire run of the hit series Absolutely Fabulous, Wax is now deploying humor to spread the word about neuroscience, rewiring our thoughts to find calm in a frenetic world, and how to survive the 21st century.
Wax earned a master’s degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Oxford, becoming an advocate and activist—successfully petitioning Parliament and Downing Street to change the laws around discrimination and mental health.
Her book, Sane New World, zoomed to the top of the bestseller list in her adopted homeland of England, and is soon to be published in the US. Nearly 1.5 million people have seen Ruby’s TED talk. Visit her website.
Join us as she takes to our stage for a lively conversation with her friend, the actress and writer Carrie Fisher.
Carrie Fisher, actress, writer and daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher made her film debut in Shampoo and went on to star as the iconic Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy. She has appeared in the films When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters and The Blues Brothers, to name a few. Television credits include Sex and the City, The Big Bang Theory and 30 Rock, for which she received an Emmy nomination.
Fisher’s bestselling novel, Postcards from the Edge, netted her the Los Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel. Fisher penned the Postcards screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep. Three novels and two memoirs have followed: Delusions of Grandma, Surrender the Pink, The Best Awful, Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic. Fisher performed her one-woman stage version of Wishful Drinking on Broadway, which went on to be filmed for HBO and nominated for an Emmy Award.
Fisher will reprise her role of Princess Leia in the much anticipated Star Wars, Episode VII. Visit her website.
Oliver Sacks in the news…We host him at Live Talks LA on Nov 14 in conversation with David Milch
We host neurologist Oliver Sacks at Live Talks Los Angeles on Wednesday, November 14th at The Aero Theatre. He’ll be in conversation with David Milch, Emmy Award-winning writer and producer. Only a few tickets remain. Ticket info here. The occasion for us hosting Dr. Sacks is the publication of his new book, Hallucinations, which was published today….Here are some stories, interviews, features and reviews on Sacks and his book.
— Wall Street Journal, Nov 5: Speakeasy: Oliver Sacks Sees Things Most People Don’t
— New York Magazine, Nov 4: A Brain with a Heart
— New York Times, Nov 3: Opinion (By Oliver Sacks) – Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do.
— NPR Fresh Air, Nov 6: Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen
— Omnivoracious Blog (Amazon), Nov 6: The Neurological and the Devine: An Interview with Oliver Sacks
— Wall Street Journal, Nov 1, Tripping Makes a Comeback
— Entertainment Weekly, Nov 1, Book Review: Hallucinations, by Oliver Sacks
— Smiley & West Radio Show, Oct 17, Oliver Sacks interview on Hallucinations (audio)
— The Guardian, Oct 30, Oliver Sacks shares his hallucinations
— NPR First Read: Listen to/Read an excerpt from Oliver Sacks’ book, on “Hearing things”
— The New Yorker: Out Loud: Drugs and Oliver Sacks
— TED Talk: What hallucination reveals about our mind
November 14 — An Evening with Oliver Sacks in conversation with David Milch
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
8:00pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)
An Evening with Oliver Sacks
in conversation with David Milch
discussing Sacks’ new book, Hallucinations
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA
PURCHASE TICKETS/SIGNED BOOKS
(SORRY EVENT IS SOLD OUT. THERE MAY BE SOME STAND BY TICKETS IN THE EVENT OF NO SHOWS. YOU CAN STILL PURCHASE SIGNED BOOKS THAT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU. VIDEO WILL BE POSTED ON OUR VIDEO PAGE SOON AFTER THE EVENT, APPROX 10 DAYS)
$20, $40 includes Sack’s book,
$35 signed book purchase only (shipping included to US destinations)
$95 includes the book + pre-event reception*
Oliver Sacks in the news…(Reviews, interviews, features, radio pieces and video)
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and more…
A provocative investigation into hallucinations—their many guises, their physiological sources, and their personal and cultural resonances.
In his latest book, neurologist and bestselling author, Oliver Sacks (Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, The Mind’s Eye) presents a provocative investigation into hallucinations—their many guises, their physiological sources, and their personal and cultural resonances. Join us at Live Talks Los Angeles as he discusses what hallucinations say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in all of us.
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication—even, for many people, by falling asleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms.
In his new book, Hallucinations, physician and best-selling author Oliver Sacks draws on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions as he investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations.
David Milch is an Emmy-Award-winning writer and producer responsible for some of the most celebrated television dramas of the last three decades. Milch, who won the Tinker Prize for highest achievement in English at Yale University and earned an M.F.A.from the Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa, left a teaching career at Yale to write for Hill Street Blues. He subsequently served as Executive Story Editor and then Executive Producer for Hill Street Blues. In 1992, Milch co-created the history-making police drama NYPD Blue. Milch took home Emmys for Best Writing in a Drama for the 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 seasons. Milch created another police drama, Brooklyn South, and co-authored, along with NYPD Blue producer Bill Clark, True Blue: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue, and served as creative consultant for Steven Bochco’s Murder One and Total Security. Milch also created and was the Executive Producers of Deadwood and Luck for HBO. He is currently developing a legal drama for NBC with Steven Bochco, and the feature film Heavy Rain for Warner Bros.
* Proceeds from tickets to the reception support the upcoming Live Talks Los Angeles emerging voices/authors series of events that commence in 2013.
$20, $40 includes Sack’s book,
$95 includes pre-event reception (6:30-7:30pm) plus book
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA
Penny Marshall in the news…at Live Talks LA Oct 3
We’re excited to be hosting Penny Marshall in conversation with her brother, Garry Marshall, at Live Talks Los Angeles next Wednesday, October 3 at The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Ticket info here. Her memoir, My Mother Was Nuts is hilarious, and paired with her brother will be fun. Here are some recent news pieces on Penny Marshall and her memoir.
Penny Marshall in the news:
— Los Angeles Times, September 26 — Penny Marshall looks back at her life in breezy new memoir. In ‘My Mother Was Nuts,’ Marshall chronicles her tap-dancing youth, her marriages, her romance with Art Garfunkel and her tight relationship with brother Gary Marshall.
— LA Weekly, September 27 — Penny Marshall, E.T. and More: Your WeeklyMovie To-Do List
— LA Weekly, September 21 — Penny Marshall on Her New Memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, and How She Influenced Women in Comedy
— Wall Street Journal, September 20 — Penny Marshall: Drawn to the Insane
— Huffington Post, September 21 — Penny Marshall On Her Unlikely Career And Why “My Mother Was Nuts”
— Vanity Fair, September 20 — Calvin Klein, Lorne Michaels, and Art Garfunkel Remember High Times With Penny Marshall
— The Today Show, September 17 — ‘My Mother Was Nuts’: Penny Marshall looks backThe actress, producer and director writes candidly of family, career and life
— Reuters, September 20 — Penny Marshall advises budding directors: Drop the ambition
Merrill Markoe interviews Chris Elliott at Live Talks LA, Oct 11
We are excited to welcome the very funny and Emmy Award-winning Merrill Markoe to Live Talks Los Angeles on October 11 to interview funny man Chris Elliott discussing his memoir, The Guy Under the Sheets: The Unauthorized Autobiography. Event details here.
Markoe’s latest book, is Cool, Calm and Contentious: Essays.
October 3 — An Evening with Penny Marshall in conversation with Garry Marshall
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
(note date changed from September 26)
8:00pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)
An Evening with Penny Marshall
in conversation with Garry Marshall
discussing her memoir, My Mother Was Nuts
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA
PURCHASE TICKETS
$25, $45 includes Marshall’s book,
$34 signed book purchase only (shipping included to US destinations)
$95 includes the book + pre-event reception*
A memoir by this Hollywood legend filled with humor and heart–and plenty of behind-the-scenes talk of her work with the stars.
Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don’t know is how her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955 to Hollywood’s star-studded sets, offering up some hilarious detours along the way.
From her childhood spent tap dancing in the Bronx, to her rise as the star of Laverne & Shirley, Penny writes that she’s lived by these simple rules: “Try hard, help your friends, don’t get too crazy, and have fun.”
In her first Live Talks Los Angeles appearance, Marshall will discuss her marriages, her friendships, her breakout role on The Odd Couple, her exploits with Cindy Williams and John Belushi, and her travels across Europe with Art Garfunkel on the back of a motorcycle.
Garry Marshall has excelled as a writer, producer, director, and actor in a career spanning 50 years, earning him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and acclaim from critics and fans alike. He was born to work in Hollywood—his mother was a tap dancer and his father was a producer and director of industrial films, and his sister is Penny Marshall. Among his credits — for writing are The Tonight Show, The Lucy Show, and The Dick Van Dyke Show; producing, Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, and Laverne & Shirley; and feature directing are Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Beaches, The Other Sister, and The Princess Diaries.
We recently hosted him at Live Talks Los Angeles on the occasion of the release of his memoir, My Happy Days in Hollywood. See the video.
PURCHASE TICKETS
* Proceeds from tickets to the reception support the upcoming Live Talks Los Angeles emerging voices/authors series of events that commence in 2013.
$25, $45 includes Marshall’s book,
$95 includes pre-event reception (6:00-7:00pm) plus book
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA