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SEGERSTROM HALLOctober 21, 2019

Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Out of courtesy to the artists and your fellow patrons, please take a moment

to turn off and refrain from using cellular phones, pagers, watch alarms

and similar devices. The use of any audio or videorecording device or the

taking of photographs (with or without flash) is strictly prohibited. Thank you.

The Center applauds:

presents

An Evening withJane Fonda &

Lily Tomlin

Legendary Award-Winning Actors and Activists

Doug McIntyre, emcee

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIESof Orange County

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WELCOME

Dear Speaker Series Members,

Welcome to tonight’s program, and thank you for joining our series! We are thrilled to celebrate the inaugural season of the Distinguished Speaker Series of Orange County with you. Segerstrom

Center for the Arts is arguably one of the best performing arts centers in California, so it may come as no surprise that for years, we’ve had our eye on this breathtakingly beautiful venue as a potential home. The stars finally aligned, and we are proud to announce Segerstrom Hall as our fifth home.

Whether it’s a live rare appearance from an admired icon, an unscripted discussion with a world-renowned leader, or a thought-provoking evening that we can’t stop talking about …. we invite you to explore with us, challenge your own assumptions and ideologies, and revel in our shared humanity.

Since 1996, our subscribers have told us that the series is not just a night out. The Distinguished Speaker Series is a community of questioning minds, where anyone who is curious about the intellectual, cultural and social world around us can reexamine their beliefs. Our goal is to present a compelling and bi-partisan style of entertainment to the community. We search the globe to find great speakers whose remarkable leadership, accomplishments and opinions make a real difference.

Time keeps marching on, and we are very grateful to celebrate our 24th season in Pasadena, our 22nd year in Redondo Beach, our 19th in Thousand Oaks and our 5th season in Beverly Hills!

We would be remiss if we did not express how grateful we are to all who have helped us along the way—our sponsors and advertisers, the management and staff at Segerstrom Center for the Arts and those at our other four theaters, our advertising team Susan Harris and Kim Cochran, our graphic artist and designer Laura Waag, Erika Crespo and Laura Missioreck who spearhead our social media and website, and all our volunteers and other individuals who have help to make the series possible.

We would also like to offer a special thank you to all of our subscribers. Without your commitment, investment and support, the Distinguished Speaker Series wouldn’t be what it is today. We are grateful that you are here with us tonight!

Sue Swan and Kathy Swan Winterhalder

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An Evening with JANE FONDA & LILY TOMLIN

Legendary Award-Winning Actors and Activists

October 21, 20197:30 p.m.

An Evening with FATHER GREGORY BOYLE

Founder & Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and

Best-Selling AuthorNovember 18, 2019

7:30 p.m.

An Evening with ANDERSON COOPER

Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist & Best-Selling Author

January 27, 20208:00 p.m.

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIESof Orange County

at Segerstrom Center for the Arts

An Evening with DR. ROBERT SAPOLSKY

Neuroscientist, Primatologist & Best-Selling AuthorFebruary 17, 2020

7:30 p.m.

An Evening with GEORGE W. BUSH

43rd President of the United States of America

April 20, 20207:30 p.m.

An Evening with DAN BUETTNER

Longevity & Happiness Expert, Explorer & Best-Selling Author

May 18, 20207:30 p.m.

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JANE FONDA

Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award-winning actress and a chameleon of endless

variety: member of a leading Hollywood dynasty, international film star, Broadway actress, relentless political activist, physical-fitness entrepreneur, and author. She’s constantly transforming herself with a career that has spanned over 60 years, accumulating a body of work that includes over 45 films and crucial work on behalf of political causes, women’s rights, Native Americans, and the environment.

Born in New York City in 1937, the daughter of Henry Fonda and Frances Seymour Fonda. She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and Vassar College. In her early twenties, Fonda studied with renowned acting coach Lee Strasberg and became a member of the Actors Studio in New York.

Fonda is a two-time Best Actress Academy Award® winner for her roles in the 1971 acclaimed thriller Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home, a three-time Golden Globe® winner, and was the 2014 recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. Along with starring roles in dozens of highly acclaimed productions, Fonda also took on responsibilities as a film and television producer. Her credits include Coming Home, The China Syndrome, 9 to 5, Rollover, On Golden Pond, The Morning After and The Dollmaker.

In 2007 Fonda received an Honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival, one of only three people ever to be granted this honor up until then. In 2009 she received a Tony Award nomination for her role in Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations on Broadway.

Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry with the release of Jane Fonda’s Workout in 1982. She followed with the production of 23 home exercise videos, 13 audio recordings, and seven bestselling books—selling 17 million copies all together. The original Jane Fonda’s Workout video remains the top grossing home video of all time.

In 2011, Fonda appeared in Et Si On Vivait Tous Ensemble, a French comedy, followed by Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, co-starring Catherine Keener. She appeared as Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels’ The Butler in 2013, and with Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell in Better

Living Through Chemistry. In 2014, she starred in director Shawn Levy’s This Is Where I Leave You, with Tina Fey and Jason Bateman.

For three seasons Fonda appeared as media mogul Leona Lansing in an Emmy-nominated performance in Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom on HBO. Most recently, she appeared in Youth, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino (director and co-writer of Italy’s Academy Award® winning best foreign language film, The Great Beauty). She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.

Fonda also stars in Netflix’s hit series, Grace and Frankie, which premiered its fifth season in January 2019. She received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series at the 2017 Emmys. In fall 2017 her film, Our Souls at Night, co-starring Robert Redford, premiered on Netflix. The co-stars

were honored with Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement in September 2017 at the 74th Venice Film Festival. Fonda also premiered Jane Fonda in Five Acts, a documentary chronicling her life and her activism, at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She was most recently seen on the big screen in Paramount’s comedy, Book Club, in which she stars alongside Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candice Bergen.

Jane celebrated her 80th birthday by raising $1.3 million for her nonprofit, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential, which works to lower the teen pregnancy rate in the state of Georgia and improve the overall health and well-being of young people to ensure a more powerful future for us all.

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As one of America’s foremost comediennes, Lily Tomlin continues

to venture across an ever-widening range of media, starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation, video, and social media. Throughout her extraordinary career, Tomlin has received numerous awards and advocated for women and animals around the globe.

Lily Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of one of the city’s most affluent areas. Although she claims she wasn’t funny as a child, Tomlin admits she “knew who was and lifted all their material right off the TV screen.” She now has earned seven Emmys; a Tony for her one-woman Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a second Tony for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Nomination for her role on The West Wing, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her one-woman performance in Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableAce Award for executive producing the film adaptation of The Search; a Grammy for her comedy album, This Is a Recording as well as nominations for her subsequent albums Modern Scream, And That’s the Truth, and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards—the first for the ABC television special Edith Ann’s Christmas (Just Say Noël), and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, The Celluloid Closet. In 2003, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and, in December 2014, was the recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C.

Tomlin began her career as a stand-up comedienne and made her film debut in Robert Altman’s Nashville; her memorable performance in the workplace revenge comedy 9 to 5 was nominated for an Academy Award and gave a generation-defining performance alongside Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda. Her other notable films include All of Me (1984), Big Business (1988), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1999), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Grandma (2015).

Tomlin’s illustrious television career began in 1966 on The Garry Moore Show and then made several memorable appearances on The Merv Griffin Show, which led to a move to California where she appeared as a regular on Music Scene. In December 1969, Tomlin

joined the cast of the top-rated Laugh-In and immediately rose to national prominence with her characterizations of Ernestine, the irascible telephone operator, and Edith Ann, the devilish six year old. When Laugh-In left the air, Tomlin went on to co-write, with Jane Wagner, and star in six comedy television specials: The Lily Tomlin Show (1973), Lily (1973), Lily (1975), Lily Tomlin (1975), Lily: Sold Out (1981), and Lily for President? (1982), for which she won three Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award.

Currently, alongside her longtime friend, Jane Fonda, Tomlin stars in the widely popular Netflix series, Grace and Frankie, which will premiere its sixth season in January 2020. In the first four seasons, Tomlin received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and in the first season a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a

Comedy Series. Tomlin was recently honored with the Career Achievement Award from the Television Critics Association and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild.

Tomlin is also well-known for supporting philanthropic organizations, particularly those focused on animal welfare, civil rights, health care, protection of elephants, women’s issues, AIDS-related organizations, environmental concerns, overcoming homelessness and supporting the LGBTQ community in all aspects of life. As part of her concern for animals, Tomlin earned an Emmy for her narration of the documentary An Apology to Elephants.

LILY TOMLIN

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TONIGHT’S EMCEE

DOUG MCINTYRE

Doug McIntyre is a principle Opinion Columnist for the Southern California

News Group, which includes the Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, Long Beach Press Telegram, Pasadena Star News, and San Bernardino Sun among others. In 2010, Doug was named “Best Columnist” by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Additionally, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, American History Illustrated, LA Jazz Scene, and The Connecticut Post, among many other publications.

For 25 years, McIntyre was heard on the legendary talk radio station KABC in Los Angeles as host of the Golden Mic Award-winning McIntyre in the Morning, and before that Doug created Red Eye Radio as a local overnight show in Southern California before taking it national. In 2015, he added a one-hour weekday show, Right Now with Doug McIntyre, for WABC in New York City.

In addition to his work in print, McIntyre has been active for over 30-years as a television/screen writer and producer including work on the hit series Married…With Children, WKRP in Cincinnati, Mike Hammer—Private Eye, and the critically acclaimed PBS series, Liberty’s Kids, which earned a Humanitas Prize nomination for excellence in television writing. Together with wife, actress Penny Peyser, Doug wrote, produced, and directed the award-winning film Trying to Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon and was executive producer for Peyser’s feature documentary, Stillpoint.

Doug appeared on Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect over a dozen times, as well as Real Time on HBO, The History Channel, The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, Lou Dobbs and countless other CNN news/issues programs.

A popular emcee and master of ceremonies, McIntyre has hosted numerous prestigious events including the annual Los Angeles Political Roast, The Los Angeles Press Club Awards and the Cinema Audio Society awards gala. McIntyre has enjoyed a long association with the California Distinguished Speakers Series, having hosted memorable evenings with showbiz legends Steve Martin, John Cleese, Robert Redford, Betty White and Ron Howard. He has also emceed evenings

with former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lech Walesa, David McCullough, Ken Burns, among others.

In 2009, his alma mater, Stonehill College, selected McIntyre as their “Alumnus of the Year.” During his time in radio, McIntyre was consistently ranked among the Top 50 radio personalities in the nation and among the Top 10 in Southern California.

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The Mission of the Distinguished Speaker Series Share the Vision Program is to

inspire high school students by introducing them to world leaders and provocative thinkers. The program encourages them to dream beyond their realities. Students experience remarkable individuals live and are often moved by their personal stories. Since its inception in 1999, over 50,000 students have enjoyed free admission to the Series.

We’ve been presenting speakers for 24 seasons in Southern California and this will be our first year in Orange County. We are excited to present our compelling and bipartisan style of entertainment to a new community. We search the globe to find great speakers whose remarkable leadership, accomplishments and opinions make a real difference. We have a line-up that will inspire your students and teachers.

You know your students better than we do, but the obvious classes and clubs who might enjoy this include those studying world history and U.S. history and politics, model UN, debate, theatre, science, and entrepreneurship.

If you know of a high school class or organized high school group that might enjoy the opportunity to participate in the Share the Vision program, contact us at (310) 546-6222 or Kathy Winterhalder at kathy@speakersla.com. Just a few key rules, we try to limit this to one class per high school. Students must be organized with a teacher or school official. The original request of interest must come on official school letterhead. Give us a call, and we can get your school involved.

SHARE THE VISIONPROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

President Bill Clinton Journalist Lisa Ling

General Colin Powell (ret.)

General David Petraeus (ret.) Olympic medalist Michael Phelps