{"id":5105,"date":"2015-10-13T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2015-11-19T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:33:40","slug":"com-alum-directs-documentary-about-broadway-legend","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/com-alum-directs-documentary-about-broadway-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"COM Alum directs Documentary about Broadway Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5119\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2015\/10\/Stritch.jpg\" alt=\"Stritch\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"wp-image-5119 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2015\/10\/Stritch.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2015\/10\/Stritch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2015\/10\/Stritch-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chiemi Karasawa (left) and Broadway legend Elaine Stritch. Photo courtesy of Eric Grau.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A born raconteur with flawless timing, Elaine Stritch proved an irresistible subject for filmmaker <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/2015\/11\/04\/cinematheque-screening-series-chiemi-karasawa\/\">Chiemi Karasawa<\/a><\/strong> (&#8217;90), who spent 18 months following\u2014and recording\u2014her as Stritch completed a national tour of the show, rehearsed and performed a new show of Sondheim songs in New York and prepared to move to Michigan to be closer to family.<\/p>\n<p>Karasawa\u2019s documentary, <em>Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me<\/em>, earned critical plaudits when it opened in 2014. Reviewing the film in the New York Times, critic Stephen Holden praised it for its \u201cunflinchingly honest examination of a woman who is aware that the end is approaching.\u201d Karasawa screened documentary as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/academics\/what-we-do\/film-television\/cinematheque\/\">Cinematheque<\/a> series, a College of Communication program that brings accomplished filmmakers to campus to screen and discuss their work.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker first met Stritch when she was working as a script supervisor on the set of John Turturro\u2019s film Romance and Cigarettes in 2005. Stritch had been cast as James Gandolfini\u2019s mother, and Karasawa says she was immediately taken with her energy and charisma. \u201cIt was like a tornado blew through town,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/com-alum-to-screen-film-about-a-broadway-legend\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read the full article in BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A born raconteur with flawless timing, Elaine Stritch proved an irresistible subject for filmmaker Chiemi Karasawa (&#8217;90), who spent 18&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[53,776,754,56,775,1276],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/5105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/5105\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}