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Hospitality November 2008 Newsletter October II 2008: Number 544 Playwright Vetere visits Collin College Cougar News talks with Pulitzer Prize- College Links nominee playwright and writer Richard Vetere. [Click Here for Full Story] www.ccccd.edu CougarWeb View Credit Class Schedule View Continuing Education Schedule Admission & Registration Tools of the transfer: Web breaks down Financial Aid Cougarcast equivalency questions Online tools at Transfer U simplify transfer process. In This Issue... [Click Here for Full Story] Playwright Vetere visits Collin College Q&A: Luke Sides, THE ARTS gallery director Tools of the transfer: Web breaks Luke Sides discusses art and THE down equivalency questions ARTS gallery as its new director. Q&A: Luke Sides, THE ARTS gallery [Click Here for Full Story] director Campus Dates Author Gilb gives flavor to writing College News Campus Dates Project ZERO encourages walking in No shock here. November is stacked. someone else's shoes [Click Here for Full Story] Career Development Month puts future in focus Cougar Links Author Gilb gives flavor to writing Transfer Tip Renowned writer Dagoberto Gilb spoke at the Spring Creek Campus SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE and gave his perspective on literature, writing and Mexican- Enter your email address in American culture and life. the box below to receive an [Click Here for Full Story] email each time we post a new issue of Cougar News or use this feature to opt out of College News your free subscription: Get the haps at Collin College. [Click Here for Full Story] Email Address: Project ZERO encourages walking in Add Remove someone else's shoes Walk a Mile events slated for Send as HTML Central Park and Preston Ridge campuses in support of awareness of abuse. [Click Here for Full Story] About Cougar News A newsletter for the students, faculty Career Development Month puts future in and staff of the Collin College. Published semi-monthly. For information or focus submissions, call 972.599.3142. Cougar November is Career Development Month – a no News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Nov. 1. All greater time to think about your future. [Click Here for Full Story] http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/index000303166.cfm[4/13/12 2:13:29 PM] Hospitality November 2008 Newsletter submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to [email protected] or sent on disk. Cougar Links Submit copy that is proofed, edited and Take a link. Share a link. Keep a link. Give a link. saved in Word format. Cougar News [Click Here for Full Story] staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Justin Jones, contributor; Heather Darrow, contributor; Nick Transfer Tip Young, photography and layout. Cost can be a pain in higher education. Alleviate it at a community college. [Click Here for Full Story] Published by Collin County Community College District Collin College TELL A FRIEND Created with eNewsBuilder http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/index000303166.cfm[4/13/12 2:13:29 PM] Playwright Vetere visits Collin College HOME Playwright Vetere visits Collin College October II 2008: Number 544 Richard Vetere considers himself fortunate. He’s a writer, a poet, College Links a playwright and teacher who’s www.ccccd.edu found a lot of venues to express CougarWeb himself -- TV, film, the printed View Credit Class Schedule word and the theater. View Continuing Education Schedule Admission & Registration The Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer paid a visit to Collin Financial Aid College on the occasion of the Cougarcast southwest regional premiere of In This Issue... his play “One Shot One Kill” produced by the Collin Theatre Playwright Vetere visits Collin College Center. At Collin College, he Richard Vetere Tools of the transfer: Web breaks lectured at a number of theater down equivalency questions classes and attended the opening of the play. Q&A: Luke Sides, THE ARTS gallery director Through his career, he already shares a IMDB page with Campus Dates Francis Ford Coppola, had Carol Burnett take on one of his Author Gilb gives flavor to writing characters and became one of the few Pulitzer Prize- College News nominees to not have a Wikipedia page. Project ZERO encourages walking in someone else's shoes Vetere graciously talked with Cougar News about writing, Career Development Month puts film and more. future in focus Cougar Links **** Transfer Tip SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE “One Shot, One Kill” is a raw look at the role of human nature in war. Set at a sniper training school, the play Enter your email address in follows the range of emotions of a Marine sharpshooter, the box below to receive an who is traumatized in battle and requests to be taken out of email each time we post a the unit as his commander attempts to reel him back in. new issue of Cougar News or use this feature to opt out of Written after the first Iraq war, Vetere updated the piece your free subscription: after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent second Iraq war. Email Address: Considering the current climate and post-9/11 attitudes, does “One Shot One Kill” mean something Add Remove different to you? Send as HTML I needed to update it because of all that’s happened, obviously. About Cougar News I can answer that question after Tuesday night. There’s something exciting about theatre because it's a living A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin College. Published breathing organism. You do a new play in a new space semi-monthly. For information or and it takes on interesting connotations, and also it’s a submissions, call 972.599.3142. Cougar different audience. http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/e_article001228753.cfm?x=b11,0,w[4/13/12 2:13:36 PM] Playwright Vetere visits Collin College News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Nov. 1. All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the Vetere was born in New York City in 1952. While a child due date. Photos cannot be returned. attending a series of Catholic schools, he began writing Text should be emailed to [email protected] or sent on disk. short plays and poems, some of which garnered him many Submit copy that is proofed, edited and accolades and attention. saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, He graduated and attended St. John’s University where he contributor; Justin Jones, contributor; received his bachelor’s degree and Columbia University Heather Darrow, contributor; Nick where he received his master’s degree. Although he never Young, photography and layout. gave up writing poetry, he found himself graduating to plays and longer fiction. What precipitated the move from poetry to other genres of writing? I felt poetry limiting to me. I started out as a poet in college and graduate school. I wrote some of my favorite poetry after graduate school. Publishing is really tough and it’s a tough business all around. I actually wrote plays before doing poems. The plays were like 1- or 2-page plays. What I really love about working in the theater is the idea of working with the actors, the director, the production and live audience. What I loved about poetry and writing poetry were the live readings. So I think the theatrics of poetry is what I keyed into. My fiction has changed because of theatre. I remember reading in the newspaper reviews of plays, at least once a week there’s a review of a play, and I never saw reviews of poetry. So I said, “Wow, to get a bigger audience for my work it’d be good idea to start writing plays” and from plays I graduated to movies because I wanted to do film I just didn’t know how they were written. Part of the change was necessity, but part was an artistic choice. The idea of not being called a poet was just horrible to me -- an awful emotion. Being a playwright and film writer has made my life way more exciting and a lot more expansive. I’ve done movies all over the world and been around the world thanks to my writing. Since, Vetere has adapted his first and only novel, The Third Miracle, into a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola, adapted another play, The Marriage Fool, into a TV movie starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett. He’s acted, written more plays and has plenty of other coals are in the fire. How are ideas turned into either a play, novel, novella or poem? I would say some things hit me as they are and yet, oddly enough, they wind up getting adapted. For instance The Third Miracle struck me as a novel when I conceived it and it never struck me as a movie, and now it’s a movie. I opened it up into a screenplay and (Francis Ford) Coppola produced it. As for the The Marriage Fool, I like the movie better than the play, but I did not think of it as a movie when I was writing it. http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/e_article001228753.cfm?x=b11,0,w[4/13/12 2:13:36 PM] Playwright Vetere visits Collin College I usually think of things as they are, but sometimes in the back of my head or people say, “That’s a movie.” I’m one of the few playwrights I know who have a published novel. A lot of playwrights get into TV and film writing. I have books of poetry published. It is kind of odd.