Features

Summer 2001

Radio-TV-Film Green Chair: The Hollywood Pitch

Invite to campus Hollywood producer Kurt Inderbitzen, the Green Honors Chair for radio-TV-film, and he just might bring Hollywood with him.

Summer 2001

Nutrition & Dietetics Green Chair: Olive Toil

International Olive Oil Council member Connie Peraglie Guttersen ’86, the Green Honors Chair for nutrition and dietetics, says what is needed at the nation’s dinner tables is an ethnic cuisine led by the olive itself.

Summer 2001

Three’s a Charm

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has become the premier career-launching venue for the world’s top young pianists. To have one student among the 30 competitors is a high honor. This year, TCU Prof. Tamas Ungar has three.

Summer 2001

Tadashi Imai

Tadashi Imai is one of 30 competing for Cliburn gold.

Summer 2001

Anton Mordasov

Gifted pianist plans to perform at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as if it were a concert.

Summer 2001

Yuri Blinov

Studying with Tamas Ungar has taught this intense Belarussian pianist to inject his own style into his performances.

Spring 2001

In the valley of the shadow

The hit Hollywood movie Proof of Life — starring Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe and David Morse — makes for great cinema: an American engineer captured by South American guerrillas. A forlorn wife. A handsome “kidnap and ransom” negotiator. A daring rescue in the heart of the guerrilla camp. But after hearing the story that inspired the movie, you may wonder why Hollywood changed the plot at all.

Spring 2001

A man in black

The tale of another TCU kidnapping

Spring 2001

Safe at home

Political commentator Doris Kearns Goodwin hit the long ball in Ed Landreth Auditorium — and slid safely into baseball nostalgia.

Winter 2000

Business partners

From riches to rags to riches, the road to building a billion-dollar telecommunications company was never easy for Steve and Sarah Smith. But it has been interesting.