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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: $800 Value! Two Free Ultra-VIP Tickets For Ron Howard’s Awards Gala
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.
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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 |
Cocoon
While I’ve enjoyed many Ron Howard films, 1985’s Cocoon holds a dear place in my heart. It’s hard to believe that the film is 25 years old this month. That summer, I was 13 yrs. old and I was be immersed in movies. I vividly recall my grandparents taking me to see this movie and I was at the age when hanging out with grandma and grandpa wasn’t all that. At least that’s how I came across but deep down I loved spending time with them, especially when they took me to the movies. Going in, I knew that this was a movie filled with senior citizens so that right there didn’t really fire me up but the fact that it had aliens…well, I was all over that. I wound up immensely enjoying the film, especially watching it with my grandparents. Afterwards, we went out for some ice cream and they shared how while it would be fun to be experience a youth injection, they wouldn’t want to stay that way since the world around them would be the same and they just enjoyed being who they are. That’s a good message to hold on to and “Cocoon” helps me to remember to enjoy who I am while I’m here.
Parenthood
This film represents all there is to being a parent. It scary and fun at the same time being a parent and this film could be a template for any future parents. Its also a trip down memory lane for any parent whose children have flown the “coop”.
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon was one of the best political movies of the decade.
A Beautiful Mind. The movie
A Beautiful Mind. The movie ceases to amaze me. The way the movie was produced and directed was great. And to see the way a man can go through life being so brilliant and having all of these other issues along with it. Working in healthcare, I think it is even more appealing to me than to most others.
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Apollo 13. It was the first movie I can remember that I watched with my parents in a serious and mature manner. It was a great memory of growing up.
Which Ron Howard film means the most to you and why?
A Beautiful Mind. It is a remarkable story about the descent into and rise again from madness of a mathematical genius. Russell Crowe’s character, John Nash, manages to pull himself out of madness not by getting rid of his hallucinations but by learning to use his powerful mind to distinguish between objective reality and his hallucinations, which he continues to perceive. The movie presents a unique take on both genius and madness. Ron Howard’s work in this film is brilliant. The main action of the movie takes place in Nash’s mind, and it is not a simple thing to make what goes on in a person’s mind compelling on film.
A Beautiful Mind
My favorite Ron Howard’s film is A Beautiful Mind. It is such a powerful film that depicts a brilliant mathematician with a severely troubled mind. Being in the field of mental health, I am deeply touched by the film.
Backdraft because I was a
Backdraft because I was a kid living in Oak Park at the time when some of the scenes from the movie where being filmed there and I got to go on the set…super cool when you are a kid…still a great memory for me today.
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Backdraft - It gave me a renewed respect & appreciation for what a firefighter does on the job. Additionally, the film local (Chicago) gave it extra points as my fav.
" A Beautiful Mind "
Watching little opie on The Andy Griffin Show who new? Later, enjoying the laughs of Happy Days, again, who new? Ron Howard has learned his trade and applied it wisely in my humble opinion. He has given us a great body of work to make us think and challegne our beliefs. Be it Apollo 13, Cocoon, or the blue collar Backdraft, its real people and real lives. My favorite of course would be A Beautiful Mind, subject matter all to often pushed in the dark corners of our society with some of its wicked histories. Thanks to Ron Howard and other directors(Shutter Island) for shinning a bright on how we treat the criminal insane……opps, I ment to say the mentally ill.