The 40th anniversary season of the Millsaps College Arts & Lecture Series continues on Thursday, October 4, with a lecture by Joe Bob Briggs on the topic of "The South in Film.” The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall on the Millsaps Campus. Individual tickets are $10 general admission and free for students with ID. Group rates are available, and season tickets may also be purchased at the door. For more information, please contact Luran Buchanan at 601-974-1043.
Joe Bob Briggs is an actor, comedian, writer and satirist whose “Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater”—one of The Movie Channel’s highest-rated shows—ran for 10 years and was twice nominated for the industry’s Cable ACE Award. He also hosted TNT Network’s weekend “Monstervision” and “Joe Bob’s Saturday Night” for four years, showing popular and cult movies with commentary at the breaks. Joe Bob (the pseudonym and persona of John Irving Bloom) has appeared on more than 50 talk shows, including The Tonight Show, and has written several books on film, including the recent "Profoundly Disturbing" and "Profoundly Erotic," providing in-depth treatments of selected films throughout the last century which changed the way movies were seen and made in the arena of violence, subject matter and sexual taboos. He is a known expert on cult and off-beat movies, and his lecture (with movie clips) will focus on the portrayal of the South in mainstream and not-so-mainstream films throughout the years. He has also written humorous political commentary, and appeared in films such as "Face/Off," "The Stand" and "Casino."
