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Half a million people converged on Woodstock 40 years ago, or so they claim, but for Pamela Gray, a screenwriter now living in Sebastopol, that was just the backdrop for an autobiographical coming-of-age story that became the film, A Walk on the Moon.
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The summer of 1969 was filled with momentous events, which Gray says helped her both conceptualize her story, and give it the dramatic shape it needed.
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In that story, a frustrated, beautiful young Brooklyn housewife, Pearl Kantrowitz, spends the summer of 1969 in the Catskills. Her world is turned around when she has an affair with a free-wheeling traveling salesman, Walker Jerome--a charming and quietly seductive hippie. Pearl cannot help herself even as she begins to realize the consequences of her intense attraction. Pearl is having the time of her life--and she is finally becoming the person she always wanted to be. But when her foray to the Woodstock Festival in the arms of Walker Jerome results in a shattering family revelation, she must reconcile her old life with her new desires and dreams. A Walk on the Moon is Rated Number 9 on Entertainment Weekly's list of "The 50 Sexiest Movies Ever."
Pamela Gray is a screenwriter whose credits include the upcoming Betty Anne Waters with Hilary Swank. Pamela has written a remake of A Star Is Born for Beyonce, and is currently adapting the bestselling memoir Dewey- The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World, for Meryl Streep.{mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/difference.mp3{/mp3remote}
Pamela will talk about A Walk on the Moon and answer questions following a special screening of the film tonight at the Rialto Cinemas Lakeside in Santa Rosa.
