Professors Kovacs, McBride Among More Than 50 to Request Gish Name be Restored at Bowling Green State

SENTINEL TRIBUNE (BOWLING GREEN, OHIO) -- Among those signing their names are James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, Malcolm McDowell and Lauren Hutton.

• Steven Kovacs, Cinema professor, San Francisco State University; former production executive for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures; and director of ’68 and Oscar-nominated producer of Arthur and Lillie.
• Joseph McBride, biographer of John Ford, Frank Capra and Steven Spielberg; author of three books on Orson Welles; co-writer, The American Film Institute Salute to Lillian Gish; professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University.