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New CD Launch: April 17
ONE SHOW ONLY! Ray Porcell and Oscar Winner Ernest Thompson Launch New CD and Premiere New Music Video – Sunday, April 17 | 2:00 pm – Longtime singer-songwriter Ray Porcell and Academy Award-winning writer of ON GOLDEN POND Ernest Thompson will launch their new CD on April 17 at 2:00 pm
What It’s Like to Win an Oscar
by Dan Reilly ~ Here, eight winners reflect on the humdrum and the surreal. ERNEST THOMPSON Best Adapted Screenplay, On Golden Pond (1981) My date that night was Diana Ross. We’d been set up through mutual friends. I called her and said, “What time do you want me to
Free NYC Reading – November 30
Cherry Lane Theatre’s TONGUES: a reading series presents “White People Christmas” – Monday, November 30 | 2:00 pm – From the Academy Award-winning writer of ON GOLDEN POND, Ernest Thompson, WHITE PEOPLE CHRISTMAS is an hilarious satire on all things racist, homophobic and elitist. A family of clinical dysfunctionals gathers
Writing Workshop ~ Fall 2015
WRITE ON GOLDEN POND October 9-11, 2015 Academy Award-winning writer Ernest Thompson offers his exclusive Write On Golden Pond workshop at his home in the idyllic Lakes Region of New Hampshire, close to where his classic movie ON GOLDEN POND was filmed. Open to eight writers only — of any age,
Das Haus am See ~ Fall 2015
GERMAN TOUR This highly successful nationwide tour of DAS HAUS AM SEE (ON GOLDEN POND) will resume on September 29 – October 20, 2015 and will run again from March 25 – April 30, 2017. Directed by Dominik Paetzholdt and starring Volker Brandt and Viktoria Brams, with Susanne Meikl, Momme Mommsen
En el Estanque Dorado thru 2015
ERNEST THOMPSON: ‘EL TEATRO ES LO MÁS PURO QUE VA A QUEDAR DE ESTA ERA TAN TECNOLÓGICA’ ~ by Esther Alvarado El escritor, actor y director visita España para asistir a la representación de su obra cumbre, protagonizada por Lola Herrera y Héctor Alterio en el Teatro Bellas Artes Va
FREE Music Video Screening: Sept 20
‘YOU ARE LOVED’ SCREENING MIFF By-the-Sea, Bar Harbor, Maine Sunday, September 20 | 1:00 PM If you haven’t seen the video Ernest directed for his new song “You Are Loved,” written with and performed by Maine’s own Justin Jaymes, you’ll have another chance on Sunday, September 20 at 1:00 pm. The screening will be followed by a
Midsummer Film Festival: July 17-18
TWO GREAT MOVIES: One Unforgettable Weekend! Reserve your tickets pronto. As a benefit for The Little Church Theater, in Holderness, New Hampshire, Whitebridge Farm Productions presents our two recent movies TIME AND CHARGES and HEAVENLY ANGLE, both written and directed by Academy Award winner Ernest Thompson. If you haven’t seen
“You Are Loved” Music Video Review
FUSE FILM REVIEW: AT THE MAINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST ~ by Paul Dervis Sunday was Richard Gere day at this year’s Maine International Film Festival (through July 19): the prolific actor starred in two decidedly atypical Gere movies. Wedged in between these showcases was a new, locally filmed music video
Tonight! Interview on 207: July 9
ERNEST THOMPSON – “YOU ARE LOVED” Interview with Rob Caldwell ~ When Ernest Thompson was writing a play about a family at a summer cottage, he was inspired by Maine’s Belgrade Lakes. That play, “On Golden Pond,” was later turned into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Henry
