Peter Bogdanovich is a director, screenwriter, actor, film scholar, and critic. A recipient of several Oscar nominations and film critic awards, Mr. Bogdanovich made his directorial debut with the Oscar-nominated The Last Picture Show. He went on to direct numerous other films, including Paper Moon, Mask, The Cat’s Meow, She’s Funny That Way, and, most recently, The Great Buster: A Celebration. His many television credits include the Emmy Award-winning HBO show The Sopranos and an episode of The Simpsons. He directed the 2007 documentary Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream, which won a Grammy award. He is the author or editor of several books, including Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors and Who The Hell’s In It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors.

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Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.

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