Playing it Cool
Filming in the desert, Charles Evered takes the road less traveled for Adopt a Sailor
June 2008
Tod Goldberg
Palm Springs Life
Explosions, con jobs, and brutal crimes dominate recent ties between the Coachella Valley and Hollywood. Mission: Impossible: 3, Ocean's 11, and Alpha Dog were all filmed here. The violent scenes might reflect the film industry's current interests. Bombs, heists, and spilled blood trigger box-office success.
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Interview with Tod Goldberg and Charles Evered
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Kim Waltrip to be the guest speaker at Palm Springs Women in Film Luncheon
September 8, 2007
La Quinta Resort – Azur Restaurant
49-499 Eisenhower Dr., La Quinta, CA
10:30 check-in, Luncheon is 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Members $25 / Non Members $35
RSVP REQUIRED: Contact Jade at
office@pswift.org or call 760-238-0306
Vistit
http://www.pswift.org for more details
Unified Via Film
August8, 2007
Joanna Beresford
The cast and crew of "Adopt a Sailor" gathered in a private Palm Desert home this week to shoot scenes for the film, which is written and directed by playwright Charles Evered, of the University of California's Riverside and Palm Desert campuses.
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Every week is Fleet Week with 'Adopt a Sailor'
August 6, 2007
Judith Salkin
The Desert Sun
Would you be willing to open your home to a young Marine in town for the night? That's the basic premise of a film in production by Coachella Valley resident, Kim Waltrip and her WonderStar Productions company.
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“Adopt A Sailor”- A Patriotic Movie To Be Filmed In The Coachella Valley
August 5, 2007
Leslie Andrews
Desert Local News
“Adopt A Sailor”, a film by Charles Evered, is scheduled to be filmed here in the Coachella Valley starting August 5th.
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Production company works with young Peck
July 4, 2007
Debra Gruszecki
The Desert Sun
He studied the cello, played varsity lacrosse and memorized the classic lines his grandfather, Gregory Peck, delivered on the silver screen in Academy Award-winning movies.
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Playwright turns to directing naval film
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
By EVONNE COUTROS
STAFF WRITER
Charles "Chuck" Evered watches actor Ethan Peck run through a final rehearsal for filming onboard the USS Wasp. "That looks great ... looks real good," he tells Peck, uniformed in Navy summer whites on the carrier's hangar deck.
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ABOUT ADOPT A SAILOR
(Text by Kathleen Masur)
Adopt a Sailor began life as a short play.
In the summer of 2002, director Erica Gould called Charles Evered and asked him---along with several other New York area playwrights, whether he would be interested in writing a play for an event she was organizing.
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