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SEGERSTROM HALL
January 27, 2020
Monday at 8 p.m.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
of Orange County
presents
An Evening with
Anderson Cooper
Award-Winning Broadcast
Journalist & Best-Selling Author
Doug McIntyre, emcee
The Center applauds:
Out of courtesy to the artists and your We are grateful to City National Bank for its founding support of the
fellow patrons, please take a moment Distinguished Speakers Series of Orange County.
to turn off and refrain from using
cellular phones, pagers, watch alarms
and similar devices. The use of any
audio or videorecording device or the
taking of photographs (with or without
flash) is strictly prohibited. Thank you.
1WELCOME
Dear Speaker Series Members,
W elcome to tonight’s program, and thank you for joining our series! We are thrilled to celebrate
the inaugural season of the Distinguished Speaker Series of Orange County with you. Segerstrom
Center for the Arts is arguably one of the best performing arts centers in California, so it may come as
no surprise that for years, we’ve had our eye on this breathtakingly beautiful venue as a potential home.
The stars finally aligned, and we are proud to announce Segerstrom Hall as our fifth home.
Whether it’s a live rare appearance from an admired icon, an unscripted discussion with a world-
renowned leader, or a thought-provoking evening that we can’t stop talking about …. we invite you to
explore with us, challenge your own assumptions and ideologies, and revel in our shared humanity.
Since 1996, our subscribers have told us that the series is not just a night out. The Distinguished
Speaker Series is a community of questioning minds, where anyone who is curious about the
intellectual, cultural and social world around us can reexamine their beliefs. Our goal is to present a
compelling and bi-partisan style of entertainment to the community. We search the globe to find great
speakers whose remarkable leadership, accomplishments and opinions make a real difference.
Time keeps marching on, and we are very grateful to celebrate our 24th season in Pasadena, our
22nd year in Redondo Beach, our 19th in Thousand Oaks and our 5th season in Beverly Hills!
We would be remiss if we did not express how grateful we are to all who have helped us along the
way—our sponsors and advertisers, the management and staff at Segerstrom Center for the Arts and
those at our other four theaters, our advertising team Susan Harris and Kim Cochran, our graphic artist
and designer Laura Waag, Erika Crespo and Laura Missioreck who spearhead our social media and
website, and all our volunteers and other individuals who have help to make the series possible.
We would also like to offer a special thank you to all of our subscribers. Without your commitment,
investment and support, the Distinguished Speaker Series wouldn’t be what it is today. We are grateful
that you are here with us tonight!
Sue Swan and Kathy Swan Winterhalder
2DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
of Orange County
at Segerstrom Center for the Arts
An Evening with An Evening with An Evening with
JANE FONDA & LILY TOMLIN FATHER GREGORY BOYLE ANDERSON COOPER
Legendary Award-Winning Founder & Executive Director of Award-Winning Broadcast
Actors and Activists Homeboy Industries and Journalist & Best-Selling Author
October 21, 2019 Best-Selling Author January 27, 2020
7:30 p.m. November 18, 2019 8:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
An Evening with An Evening with An Evening with
DR. ROBERT SAPOLSKY GEORGE W. BUSH DAN BUETTNER
Neuroscientist, Primatologist & 43rd President of the Longevity & Happiness Expert,
Best-Selling Author United States of America Explorer & Best-Selling Author
February 17, 2020 April 20, 2020 May 18, 2020
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
3ANDERSON COOPER
A nderson Cooper takes
audiences inside the news
of the day, sharing sometimes
major breaking news that is
unexpected, underreported
and above all timely and
provocative yet always eye- fascinating.
opening insights on the stories Cooper and Anderson
impacting people and issues Cooper 360° have won several
around the world. major journalism awards,
He’s one of the most including multiple Emmy
recognizable faces on television awards. Cooper has also earned
and has no plans of slowing a National Headliners Award
down. Relentless, fearless and for his tsunami coverage,
locked onto the truth, Anderson an Emmy Award for his
Cooper spends nearly every contribution to ABC’s coverage
day, including weekends (and of Princess Diana’s funeral; a
especially New Year’s Eve) Silver Plaque from the Chicago
working. There’s Anderson International Film Festival for
Cooper 360, his five-nights- his report from Sarajevo on
a-week newscast on CNN, the Bosnian civil war; a Bronze
which enters its 15th year this Telly for his coverage of famine
September; his gig as a 60 in Somalia; a Bronze Award
Minutes correspondent (he’ll from the National Educational
shoot 10 pieces for the CBS Film and Video Festival for a
newsmagazine this season); and report on political Islam; and
his new Facebook news series, a GLAAD Media Award for
Full Circle; not to mention the Outstanding TV Journalism
live road show he does with pal for his 20/20 Downtown report
Andy Cohen, AC²: Deep Talk on high school athlete Corey
and Shallow Tales. Johnson.
As the son of heiress and As a new breed of broadcast
election cycles, he has become a highly sought
artist Gloria Vanderbilt and screenwriter journalist, Anderson Cooper takes you to
debate moderator, praised most recently
Wyatt Cooper, Cooper grew up in the rarified a ringside seat as he delivers a refreshingly
for his sharp, even-handed questioning yet
world of Manhattan society. He tributes the human account of today’s front-page news. On
assertive fact-checking of 2016’s presidential
loss of his father and brother as the reason he stage, Anderson brings warmth, humor and
candidates.
started roaming the globe as a young freelance relatability to his role as a go-to authority on
Before joining CNN, Cooper was an
journalist to war-torn places like Rwanda and global news as he shares insights on American
ABC News correspondent and host of the
Somalia, searching for others who “spoke the politics, culture and the oft-overlooked
network’s reality program, The Mole. Cooper
language of loss,” and why he still travels to stories that matter to citizens. Drawing on
anchored ABC’s live, interactive news and
hotspots as much as possible. his experience covering news in Russia,
interview program, World News Now, as well
Now, as the anchor of the Emmy- Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, the Balkans, and
as providing reports for World News Tonight,
winning CNN news program Anderson the Middle East, he also brings audiences an
20/20 and 20/20 Downtown. Previously, he
Cooper 360°, he brings the most pressing experienced and comprehensive perspective
was a New York-based correspondent for ABC
stories of the day to a worldwide audience on international affairs and the challenges that
News, reporting primarily for World News
from multiple perspectives. In addition to we face in a rapidly changing world.
Saturday/Sunday.
his role as a correspondent for CBS News’
In addition to his television work, Cooper
60 Minutes, Anderson is widely respected
is also the author of the best-selling memoir,
for his courageous on-the-scene reporting
Dispatches from the Edge, based in part on
of breaking and oftentimes tumultuous
his coverage of Hurricane Katrina in New
news events at home and abroad, including
Orleans. Prior to joining CNN in December
Hurricane Katrina, the Egyptian Revolution
2001, Cooper hosted ABC’s World News Now
and the Haitian earthquake catastrophe, and
and traveled the world as chief international
most recently the conflict in Syria, the NSA
correspondent for Channel One News. In
surveillance programs, the Boston Marathon
his lively and engaging delivery, this Emmy
bombing and the Sandy Hook. Through
Award winner provides an insider’s look at
4TONIGHT’S EMCEE
DOUG MCINTYRE
D oug McIntyre is a principle Opinion
Columnist for the Southern California
News Group, which includes the Los Angeles
Daily News, Orange County Register, Long
Beach Press Telegram, Pasadena Star News,
and San Bernardino Sun among others. In
2010, Doug was named “Best Columnist”
by the California Newspaper Publishers
Association. Additionally, he has written
for the Los Angeles Times, American History
Illustrated, LA Jazz Scene, and The Connecticut
Post, among many other publications.
For 25 years, McIntyre was heard on the
legendary talk radio station KABC in Los
Angeles as host of the Golden Mic Award-
winning McIntyre in the Morning, and before
that Doug created Red Eye Radio as a local
overnight show in Southern California before
taking it national. In 2015, he added a one-
hour weekday show, Right Now with Doug
McIntyre, for WABC in New York City.
In addition to his work in print,
McIntyre has been active for over 30-years
as a television/screen writer and producer
including work on the hit series Married…
With Children, WKRP in Cincinnati, Mike
Hammer—Private Eye, and the critically
acclaimed PBS series, Liberty’s Kids, which
earned a Humanitas Prize nomination for
excellence in television writing. Together
with wife, actress Penny Peyser, Doug wrote,
produced, and directed the award-winning with former Secretary of State Colin Powell,
film Trying to Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Lech Walesa, David McCullough, Ken Burns,
Jack Sheldon and was executive producer for among others.
Peyser’s feature documentary, Stillpoint. In 2009, his alma mater, Stonehill College,
Doug appeared on Bill Maher’s Politically selected McIntyre as their “Alumnus of the
Incorrect over a dozen times, as well as Real Year.” During his time in radio, McIntyre was
Time on HBO, The History Channel, The consistently ranked among the Top 50 radio
O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, Lou Dobbs and personalities in the nation and among the Top
countless other CNN news/issues programs. 10 in Southern California.
A popular emcee and master of
ceremonies, McIntyre has hosted numerous
prestigious events including the annual Los
Angeles Political Roast, The Los Angeles Press
Club Awards and the Cinema Audio Society
awards gala. McIntyre has enjoyed a long
association with the California Distinguished
Speakers Series, having hosted memorable
evenings with showbiz legends Steve Martin,
John Cleese, Robert Redford, Betty White and
Ron Howard. He has also emceed evenings
5SHARE THE VISION
PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
T he Mission of the Distinguished Speaker
Series Share the Vision Program is to
inspire high school students by introducing
them to world leaders and provocative
thinkers. The program encourages them
to dream beyond their realities. Students
experience remarkable individuals live and are
often moved by their personal stories. Since its
inception in 1999, over 50,000 students have
enjoyed free admission to the Series.
We’ve been presenting speakers for 24
seasons in Southern California and this
will be our first year in Orange County. We
are excited to present our compelling and
bipartisan style of entertainment to a new
President Bill Clinton Journalist Lisa Ling
community. We search the globe to find
great speakers whose remarkable leadership,
accomplishments and opinions make a real
difference. We have a line-up that will inspire
your students and teachers.
You know your students better than we do,
but the obvious classes and clubs who might
enjoy this include those studying world history
and U.S. history and politics, model UN,
debate, theatre, science, and entrepreneurship.
If you know of a high school class or
organized high school group that might enjoy
the opportunity to participate in the Share the
Vision program, contact us at (310) 546-6222
or Kathy Winterhalder at kathy@speakersla.
com. Just a few key rules, we try to limit this
to one class per high school. Students must
be organized with a teacher or school official.
The original request of interest must come on
official school letterhead. Give us a call, and we
can get your school involved.
General Colin Powell (ret.)
General David Petraeus (ret.) Olympic medalist Michael Phelps
6CELEBRATING A SUCCESSFUL KICK-OFF
CELEBRATING A SUCCESSFUL KICK-OFF
CHEERS
CHEERS TOTO A MEMORABLE MEET
A MEMORABLE MEET && GREET
GREETWITH
WITHJANE AND
JANE LILY!
AND LILY!
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