REMINDER/Great American Writers Festival

Business Wire, May 9, 2002

Entertainment Editors & City Desks/Assignment Editors

REMINDER...for Friday-Tuesday (May 10-14)

LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 2, 2002

Five days of film screenings, lectures, panel discussions and a live broadcast celebrating Ayn Rand and her novel "The Fountainhead" will take place in Los Angeles from May 10 to 14.

C-SPAN, whose American Writers Series II profiles a different author each week, has organized this unprecedented event, in association with the Ayn Rand Archives and AT&T Broadband. The American Writers installment on Ayn Rand and "The Fountainhead" will be broadcast live on C-SPAN on Sunday, May 12, at noon PDT. The network has been promoting the American Writers series with advertisements featuring images of four American icons: Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin -- and Ayn Rand.

Other scheduled events include: screenings of a film adaptation of her novel "We the Living" and of a film biography of Ayn Rand, a student group discussion on "The Fountainhead," as well as talks and panel discussions with Ayn Rand scholars on her literary technique, her role in fighting communism in Hollywood and her philosophical ideas and their relevance to winning the war on terrorism.

The bulk of the events will take place at Harmony Gold in Hollywood, where the film biography "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" and the Italian classic "We the Living" will be screened. Two lectures on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, are also scheduled. All events (except the live broadcast) are free and open to the public.

For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit: http://www.aynrand.org/cspan.> Highlights:

-- Panel discussion at 1:30 p.m. on "Ayn Rand, Communism and the Hollywood
Blacklist"

-- Screening at 7:30 p.m. of "We the Living," based on Ayn Rand's classic novel
about life in the early years of Soviet communism

For interviews, please contact: Larry Benson, E-mail: larryb@aynrand.org, Phone: (310) 306-9232, ext. 213.

For more information on Objectivism's unique point of view, go to ARI's Web site at http://www.aynrand.org/medialink. Founded in 1985, the Ayn Rand Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead."