{"id":72555,"date":"2016-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-graduate-tim-gray-collaborates-with-actor-tom-selleck-world-war-ii-veterans-to-make-film-about-pearl-harbor\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-graduate-tim-gray-collaborates-with-actor-tom-selleck-world-war-ii-veterans-to-make-film-about-pearl-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/uri-graduate-tim-gray-collaborates-with-actor-tom-selleck-world-war-ii-veterans-to-make-film-about-pearl-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 graduate Tim Gray collaborates with actor Tom Selleck, World War II veterans to make film about Pearl Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I., Nov. 16, 2016\u2014The actor Tom Selleck made a name for himself hunting down bad guys in the 1980s television series, Magnum, P.I.<\/em> These days, he\u2019s heralding the good guys as narrator of a World War II film written, directed and produced by a 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember Pearl Harbor\u2019\u2019 is the latest documentary from Tim Gray, a 1989 journalism graduate who has spent the last decade interviewing World War II veterans and turning their stories into award-winning films shown worldwide.<\/p>\n

The 84-minute film has not only won an Award of Excellence from the Indie Fest, but was also selected to officially debut in Pearl Harbor on the 75th<\/sup> anniversary of the attacks in December. It will air on 125 PBS stations throughout the country.<\/p>\n

How did he get Selleck to narrate? \u201cI just asked,\u2019\u2019 says Gray. \u201cAnd he said yes\u2014right away.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The film, to be shown Dec. 4 in World War II Hangar 79 on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, features interviews with veterans who witnessed the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, which led to the United States\u2019 entry into the war.<\/p>\n

More than 35 World War II veterans are interviewed, including those who served on the USS Arizona, which was bombed during the attack, killing 1,177 officers and crewmen. The film also has a rare interview with Mitsuo Fuchida, flight leader of the Japanese air attack.<\/p>\n

Gray says he was honored to get Selleck. \u201cTom was the first person I thought of to narrate since he has a strong connection to Hawaii from his Magnum, P.I.<\/em> days (the series was filmed there), was in the National Guard when he was younger and, simply, has a great voice.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Gray says he spent two days on the phone with Selleck while he narrated the documentary in a studio in California. Selleck, now starring in CBS\u2019 Blue Blood<\/em>, is the ultimate perfectionist and did each read two to three times until he felt it was right, Gray says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knew how important this project is and was nothing short of phenomenal to deal with,\u2019\u2019 says Gray. \u201cJust a great guy who understood the significance of the project. We had time to talk about other things as well\u2014his love for the Detroit Tigers and his strong interest in the stories of World War II.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Gray even told Selleck about his 1988 encounter with another Magnum, P.I.<\/em> actor. \u201cI was with the 溏心vlog免费B站 basketball team doing radio while in college, and the team was in a tournament in Hawaii. We were on the flight over from L.A., and up in first class was one of the stars of Magnum, P.I.<\/em>, Roger Mosley, who played T.C in the show. I went up to first class, introduced myself and brought Mosley back to meet the team in economy class. They all knew who he was. In fact, Jimmy Christian, a guard on the team and now the head coach at Boston College, yelled out \u2018T.C.!\u2019 and the whole plane kind of woke up at that point. Kind of funny.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Gray, who grew up in Kingston<\/strong>, studied journalism at 溏心vlog免费B站 and worked as a sports anchor at Channel 10 before he went into filmmaking, pursuing a topic that had interested him since childhood: World War II.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the founder of The World War II Foundation, the only organization in the country that, with private contributions, makes films about veterans and donates the movies to American Public Television and its PBS affiliates throughout the world.<\/p>\n

In addition to two other Indie Fest awards, Gray has won five regional Emmy awards and American Public Television\u2019s highest award for programming excellence.<\/p>\n

Working with local photojournalist Jim Karpeichik\u2014whose daughter, Katrina, graduated from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2016, and wife, Elaine, graduated in 1988\u2014Gray has produced 16 other films. His productions have received kind words from everyone from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to Patriots coach Bill Belichick.<\/p>\n

For Gray, it\u2019s a labor of love. His mission, as he sees it, is to tell the veterans\u2019 stories before it\u2019s too late. Of the 16 million veterans who fought in the war, less than a million are left, with 750 dying every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe window is closing now,\u2019\u2019 says Gray. \u201cWe need to preserve these stories so that future generations understand we are who we are because of the sacrifice and courage of the World War II generation.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

He has four more films in post-production for 2017 and 2018 that focus on the war in Europe and the Pacific. \u201cWriting is my passion,\u2019\u2019 he says, \u201cand that underpinning was established at 溏心vlog免费B站.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I., Nov. 16, 2016\u2014The actor Tom Selleck made a name for himself hunting down bad guys in the 1980s television series, Magnum, P.I. These days, he\u2019s heralding the good guys as narrator of a World War II film written, directed and produced by a 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate. \u201cRemember Pearl Harbor\u2019\u2019 is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}