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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: $800 Value! Two Free Ultra-VIP Tickets For Ron Howard’s Awards Gala
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Which Ron Howard film means the most to you and why?
© 2010 Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com LLC
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CHICAGO – This is an exclusive, $800 value! HollywoodChicago.com is one of the only places where you can get it. In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, one lucky winner (plus one guest) will win a ticket to the ultra-VIP party for Ron Howard’s upcoming awards gala!
The winners will join the 46th Chicago International Film Festival on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago as the festival pays tribute to one of this generation’s most popular filmmakers with a selection of film highlights and special guests. The party will culminate in Ron Howard’s acceptance of the festival’s career achievement award.
Ron Howard has had an unmatched career as a director, producer and actor. After iconic early roles on generation-defining television shows “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Happy Days,” he earned and maintains a reputation as one of the world’s most admired directors.
He has mastered all film genres including action spectaculars, moving dramas, chilling thrillers and character-driven comedies. His films, which include “Splash,” “Cocoon,” “Parenthood,” “Backdraft,” “Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “The Da Vinci Code” and “Frost/Nixon,” have left an impact on film history and have changed the way we look at the movies today.
Courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, one winner and one guest will gain access to all of the evening’s festivities (an $800 value!)! This includes:
- 6:30 p.m.: Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, open bar and silent auction.
- 7 p.m.: Red-carpet arrivals.
- 8 p.m.: Dinner and live auction.
- 9:30 p.m.: Ron Howard’s career will be celebrated with a selection of film highlights. Host: A&E Network anchor and award-winning television journalist Bill Kurtis. Career achievement award presentation.
- 10:30 p.m.: After party by the Lagoon at the South Portico and an exclusive look at the Museum of Science & Industry’s newest and most-talked-about permanent exhibit (“Science Storms”) to follow.
For your chance to win, simply submit a comment in the form below explaining which Ron Howard film means the most to you and why. The contest ends at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, June 10, 2010. The HollywoodChicago.com winner will be notified on Friday, June 11, 2010.
To secure your free tickets now, make sure you’re logged into your HollywoodChicago.com account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having an account with a valid e-mail address is required. Then, simply add a new comment in the form below. In your comment, include an answer to this question:
Like all Hookups here, this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup is simple: Just submit your comment below and we will award one winner (plus one guest) randomly via e-mail for our ultra-VIP Ron Howard Hookup. Good luck!
 | By ADAM FENDELMAN |
FAVORITE FILM
SPLASH because it’s a touching love story.
Favorite Ron Howard film
“Cast Away” By far my favorite.
It has so many meanings and under currants. One of them is the simple statement (and one of my favorite quotes) “I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
Another insightful scene is at the end where he at at the crossroads (hmmm… of life?) He was delivering that package he kept unopened on the island to that woman’s house who later drove up in the pickup. The ending means sometimes people reach a crossroads in their lives where they don’t know which way to go. Not every movie has a nice little happy ending tied in a bow where everything is explained to you. Life is often ambiguous and sometimes the best films are ones that leave you with more questions than answers.
Backdraft is the best
Backdraft is the best fireman movie I have ever seen. I still watch it sometimes. It is a classic.
Parenthood
I love “Parenthood” for many reasons.
1. It has an amazing cast. Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis, Keanu Reeves and many others.
2. The Buckman family is a Midwestern family. I grew up in the Midwest and can relate to their family.
3. Ron Howard brilliantly uses comedic and dramatic elements to tell this great story.
4. “Parenthood” was released in 1989 and I have watched it so many times that I can not even count. It stands the test of time.
Frost/Nixon
I love you Michael Sheen!
Let's Say
Willow. Because that was one movie in its time.
Parenthood
I love Parenthood!
I saw it for the first time in theaters before I had a kid and loved the comedy and could relate to the kids in the movie. Years later, I watched it as a father and could relate to parents.
Willow
Just as ET is to Spielberg, Willow is to Ron Howard - and yet highly under-appreciated. Willow was made for the love of cinema; for the love of making movies. There’s movie magic in it. I watch Willow with the same enthusiasm today as I did when I was 3 years old.
Splash
I think Splash because I became aware of what Ron Howard could do. Now its the start of so many good things.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is one of the greatest movies depicting US History. What child doesn’t fantasize about going up in a space ship and stepping foot on the moon? Despite being 30 years old I still dream of doing that. However, this movie greatly depicts the toughness and the issues that can arise with that dream. As with most great movies it typically inspires people. I wish I could say I became an astronaut or went into NASA, but unfortunately that never did happen.
Great directors are able to take a story and make the viewer feel like they were part of something, that you are experiencing the same ups and downs that the, in this case, the real people were going through at that time. Apollo 13 made you feel like you were on that ship and experiencing everything they were going through. Congratulations to Ron Howard on being able to capture that not just in Apollo 13, but in many of the movies he has directed.