https://www.walterwinchellfilm.com/about daily 0.75 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1598538995438-FHR3CI3I1F0PT6IDUGHA/WW0173-M+website.jpg About Department of Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1598538958947-T0RWVUU435XOU63ACVLL/WW0045-M%2BWWSitsAtABCMicrophoneInTweedSuitAndFedora_1944.jpg About Keystone/Getty Images https://www.walterwinchellfilm.com/team daily 0.75 2020-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1598470744715-RD5VV7NEEMUSK5KO7KHL/StanleyTucci_BW-9981.jpg Team - Stanley Tucci Voice of Walter Winchell Stanley Tucci is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has directed five films and appeared in more than seventy films and a dozen plays on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony, and a spoken word Grammy, and is the winner of two Golden Globes and three Emmys. He received his first Emmy for his portrayal of Walter Winchell in the 1998 HBO biopic Winchell. His upcoming credits include the films Supernova, The King’s Man, and The Witches. Photo by Hazel Thompson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1598471627965-BKBFQCMW2NQI7OXXVI1W/https---blogs-images.forbes.com-javierhasse-files-2019-03-Whoopi-Goldberg-by-Timothy-White-1200x900.jpg Team - Whoopi Goldberg Narrator Whoopi Goldberg is one of a very elite group of artists who have won the Grammy, the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Emmy, and the Tony. Currently, she is the moderator of ABC Television Network’s The View. Whoopi is equally well-known for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of children, the homeless, human rights, education, substance abuse, and the battle against AIDS. Among her many charitable activities, Whoopi is a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations. Photo by Timothy White. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1598550403161-E9NG6JNWPA2BDIPM5FUM/StanleyTucci_BW-9942.jpg Team - Ben Loeterman Director/Writer/Producer Ben Loeterman is an accomplished writer/producer/director of public affairs and historical documentaries. He founded Ben Loeterman Productions, Inc. (BLPI) in 1996. 1913: Seeds of Conflict, his NEH-funded funded film about the origins of today’s Israeli/Palestinian conflict, aired nationally on PBS in the summer of 2013. His previous NEH-funded film, The People v. Leo Frank, a Peabody Award finalist, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2009 to critical acclaim. Loeterman’s work appeared on the first eighteen seasons of the PBS series FRONTLINE. He produced programs for PBS/American Experience including Golden Gate Bridge, Public Enemy #1, and Rescue at Sea. He has received national Emmy awards for directing and investigative journalism, Amnesty International's Media Spotlight Award, and two duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards. He was a Peabody Award finalist. Photo by Hazel Thompson. https://www.walterwinchellfilm.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-10-26 https://www.walterwinchellfilm.com/press-kit daily 0.75 2020-10-08 https://www.walterwinchellfilm.com/interviews daily 0.75 2020-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601412001629-Q3YSW1FZ7ZF8JNQEIRZP/Kurt%2BAndersen.jpg Interviews - Kurt Andersen is a cultural historian and author of both Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History and its new companion book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History. He provided insights on Winchell’s influence on modern media and his relationship to the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success. Learn more about Kurt’s work Learn more about Fantasyland Learn more about Evil Geniuses Photo by Jason Longo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601306795204-WD5J9LKZY6BMAFDOZGH3/Nancy+Gray.png Interviews - Nancy Gray was married to talk show host Barry Gray from 1986 until his death in 1996. They have one child together, Dora Grace. Winchell set out to destroy Gray's career in the early 1950s after once being his mentor. Read Barry’s story firsthand Photo by Jason Longo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601412038547-A1YI6V2JB6VBNBULD2TU/Photo%252BMay%252B25%252C%252B1%252B10%252B17%252BPM.jpg Interviews - Arnie Bernstein is a historical nonfiction writer whose books include Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn ad the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund. He provided insights regarding the German-American Bund and Winchell’s relationship to American Nazism. Learn more about Arnie’s work Learn more about Swastika Nation Photo by Stephen McCarthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601074255448-Z01176SHP0VXYTU4Q1G2/Neal+Gabler.png Interviews - Neal Gabler is the author of Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity, considered the definitive biography of Walter Winchell. His most recent book, the Ted Kennedy biography Catching the Wind, is due out in October 2020. Learn more about Winchell Learn more about Catching the Wind Photo by Jason Longo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601307896208-IIYYB509PEICY2ZLMPUO/Jim+Klurfeld.png Interviews - Jim Klurfeld, the former editorial page editor of Newsday, is the son of Herman Klurfeld, Winchell’s ghostwriter for 27 years. In 1970 he was part of the Newsday investigative team which received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He is currently a visiting professor of journalism at Stony Brook University. Learn more about Jim’s work Read Herman’s firsthand biography of Winchell Photo by Jason Longo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601073219542-OVPFTROD5S5POFZNWA75/Thomas+Doherty.png Interviews - Thomas Doherty is a professor of American studies at Brandeis University and the author of Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist (2018) and Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century (2020). Learn more about Little Lindy is Kidnapped Learn more about Show Trial Photo by Stephen McCarthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601308790411-67BRC422EF940K6ADDM8/Jane+Rhodes.png Interviews - Jane Rhodes is a professor and head of Black Studies at University of Illinois Chicago, with a focus on race and gender in mass media and the history of Black press. She is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century and Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon. Learn more about Jane’s work Learn more about Mary Ann Shadd Cary Learn more about Framing the Black Panthers Photo by Stephen McCarthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601307331239-CW50F4NMRCHITQT1A5EL/Daniel+Greene.png Interviews - Daniel Greene is the curator of Americans and the Holocaust, a groundbreaking exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum which examines the major cultural forces that influenced Americans’ responses to Nazism in the 1930s and 40s. Daniel is currently President of the Newberry Library and an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University. Visit the online portion of Americans and the Holocaust Learn more about Daniel’s book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism, winner of the American Jewish Historical Society's Saul Viener Prize in American Jewish history Photo by Stephen McCarthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601308850419-CF2CWRRGLY4K94ME65YR/Betty+Houchin+Winfield.png Interviews - Betty Houchin Winfield is a Professor Emeritus of political communication and mass media history at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She has authored four books, including the award-winning FDR and the News Media. Learn more about Betty’s work Learn more about FDR and the News Media Photo by Stephen McCarthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601072799795-81762RVBMM2YCBQTTSUR/Dan+Czitrom.png Interviews - Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College, focusing on the history of media and of New York City. He is author most recently of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era. Learn more about Daniel’s work Learn more about New York Exposed Photo by Stephen McCarthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46af3f35c7bc390bf291ca/1601073952701-0O0RR1AKTWKJDD3UFJZF/Susan+Douglas.png Interviews - Susan Douglas is a scholar of American media at the University of Michigan, with a focus on historical media and the relationship between gender and media. She is the author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, and the co-author of Celebrity: A History of Fame. 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