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JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yeah. See, I don’t remember. I’m not really good on dates, so I’m very bad for who did what when. MIGUEL PENDÁS: Albert became involved in ’65, playing a really big role, and worked through ’73 and after that he left. He came back later, but he— JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: He came back later, but wasn’t he always involved in it? I mean, he was the one that started the tributes. MIGUEL PENDÁS: He went in and out of doing some tributes. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: And then he would come back to do tributes. MIGUEL PENDÁS: Yes. Occasional tributes. SHEILA CADIGAN: He would interview filmmakers. MIGUEL PENDÁS: But up through ’73 he was playing a key role in programming the Festival as a whole, as well. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Right. But I wasn’t on the board then. I went to things and I went to films and I went to parties. SHEILA CADIGAN: You were a student here in San Francisco in the 1960s, right? JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yes, I went to the Art Institute. SHEILA CADIGAN: It was a very prestigious school at the time, so you must have formed a certain sensibility for the arts? JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Oh, yeah. I always liked it. My major was art history. Well, actually I kind of went around to everything. Whatever class made me feel good. 11
SHEILA CADIGAN: It was very difficult to get in there in the ’60s, though. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: It’s true. I loved it. One year, I was a sculpture major. One year, I was taking photography with Dorothea Lange. One semester, I was doing painting. SHEILA CADIGAN: And in the evenings there was your mother’s restaurant and the artists. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: And my mother’s restaurant and all these people hung out there. SHEILA CADIGAN: Nureyev. Baryshnikov. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Well, Baryshnikov later. Nureyev defected in ’63, and then Mischa defected in ’74. See, those dates I remember. Isn’t that funny. Natasha defected in ’70 and Sasha Godunov defected in ’76. But those are the only dates I remember. SHEILA CADIGAN: Were you interested in becoming an artist yourself in some way? A ballet dancer? A sculptor? JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Are you kidding? No. Do you know how much discipline it takes? Christ! I mean, the same as painting. It’s very solitary, and I’m not that kind of person. SHEILA CADIGAN: But it seems the language of the arts sits easily in your mouth. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: I grew up with it. My mother took us to the opera. She took us to the ballet. She exposed us to all of that. And also, having the restaurant with all these people, she just had this great way of putting people together. She’d have these parties, and one minute you’d be talking to a guy who was a busboy at a Chinese restaurant and the next you’d be talking to Jimmy Caan, who’d just finished doing The Godfather. JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: But you’re the same way. You have that same knack of hooking people together. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yes, I got that from her. 12
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