"Beyond Forty: Bright Films for Bright People" (in the program book for the Fourth Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, January 7-17, 1993)

Palm Springs CA: Palm Springs International Film Festival. Fine. 1993. Stapled wraps. [a nice clean as-new copy, quite likely owned by someone who didn't actually attend the festival, since it shows no signs of being folded, rolled up, carried around in a purse or book bag, etc.]. (photographs, graphics, advertisements) Pretty much a typical film festival program book, with numerous ads, short blurbs for all films screened, etc. The main attraction in this one (in my opinion, anyway) is the contribution by Bradbury, a one-page fantasy-rant about the kind of movie company HE'd like to form, to make the kinds of films he thinks that the alienated over-40 crowd will flock to in droves: "an exclusive, you're damn-right snobbish company dedicated to mature minds that appreciate not being talked down to or watching finger-shadows on the nursery walls of theaters so loud with slobs you can't hear the actor's dialogue. That is, if there is any!" There is also a good deal of space in the program devoted to Frank Sinatra and Marcello Mastroianni: Sinatra was recipient of the Desert Palm Achievement Award (there's an article about him by Charles Champlin, a two-page spread of tributes from his friends and associates, a fairly detailed filmography, and a one-page interview); Mastroianni, for his part, was given the festival's first-ever Distinguished International Filmmaker Award (seven of his films were screened, so there are program notes for each one, plus a complete (albeit titles-only) filmography, and two articles about him, one an appreciation by Harlan Jacobson). Other contents include an interview with costume designer Albert Wolsky and an article by Nick DeMartino, Director of the American Film Institute's then-new AFI-Apple Computer Center for Film and Videomakers, entitled "Confessions of an Analog Guy in a Digital World." .