Filmmaker Rosemarie Reed will be honored and screen her film “Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story” at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on October 18th at 1pm.
A Q&A will follow the screening with Reed emceed by LIMEHOF Vice Chairman Tom Needham.
The event is free with general admission ticket purchase. LIMEHOF offers special film tickets for $10 for the screening and Q&A only (no access to the exhibits). These film tickets are only available at the counter for purchase on the day of the event.
For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame.org/museum/
About Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story
Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story was produced and directed by Rosemarie Reed. “Just when you think you’ve scraped the bottom, you find you’ve only scratched the surface,” opined Steve Post (1944-2014), the brilliant, sardonic WBAI (and later WNYC) radio host whose voice was a familiar tonic during Watergate, the Vietnam War, the Nixon era, and beyond. Like Capote and Mailer, creators of the nonfiction novel, Post personalized the political and politicized the personal – pioneering freeform radio by improvising self-deprecating stories drawn from his childhood, page one of the New York Times, or (his personal nemesis) Richard Nixon (“Give him the shaft”). Some of his favorite guests: Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner (publisher of The Realist), Marshall Efron, Marilyn Sokol, and John Lithgow. Filmmaker Rosemarie Reed recreates a time when this curmudgeonly comic genius turned radio into a medium that was of the moment: both endlessly entertaining and profoundly enlightening. Plus, he was very, very funny.
Presented with support from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Fund.