The Department of Communication presents a screening of the HBO movie You Don’t Know Jack: The Life and Deaths of Jack Kevorkian, followed by the lecture "From Lived Experience to the Movies: A Journalist's Journey and Dr. Kevorkian" by Jack Lessenberry.
Jack Lessenberry (M.A.), a member of the journalism faculty at Wayne State University since 1993, is Michigan Radio’s senior political analyst and does on-air interviews and commentary on three NPR affiliates every day. He hosts the weekly television show Deadline Now on WGTE-TV public broadcasting in Ohio. Lessenberry won a National Emmy award in 1995 for one of two Frontline documentaries he helped report and produce on Dr. Kevorkian and he was featured in a March 1996 A&E Biography on Kevorkian he helped produce.
Lessenberry will share his experience as a journalist covering Dr. Jack Kevorkian. He will also comment on his role in helping to report and produce documentaries about Kevorkian.
The film You Don’t Know Jack: The Life and Deaths of Jack Kevorkian tells the story of Dr. Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who, for better and for worse, cemented his name to one of the more disturbing ethical issues of our time.
Cast and Crew: Directed by Barry Levinson; written by Adam Mazer; Steve Lee Jones, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Glenn Rigberg, Tom Fontana and Mr. Levinson, executive producers; Scott Ferguson, producer. Produced by Bee Holder Productions, Cine Mosaic and the Levinson/Fontana Company. WITH: Al Pacino (Dr. Jack Kevorkian), Susan Sarandon (Janet Good), Danny Huston (Geoffrey Fieger), Brenda Vaccaro (Margo Janus) and John Goodman (Neal Nicol).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132623/