WORDS AND IMAGES : Festival Traces Reagan Film Career

A Film Festival Retrospective presented by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the Reagan Foundation, tracing the acting career of our 40th President, may also offer insight into how working in Hollywood shapes personality and character. The former President remembers, “A Hollywood of magic and grandeur, built upon determination, persistence and hard work which can take you anywhere.”

The eight films chosen for the Reagan retrospective reflect a diverse and classical view of his early movies. They will screen every Sunday at 2 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m. through July and August in the library theater, 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley. The award-winning “Knute Rockne, All American” will be shown on Sunday, and “The Santa Fe Trail” will screen Wednesday. Both films were made in 1940. Call 522-8444 for information about the other films to be shown.

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Frank McConnell will sign his new novel “Liar’s Poker” at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mysteries to Die For, 2940 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks.

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Growing old is not inevitable, claims Dr. Deepak Chopra in his latest book “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind.” Author of a number of books on holistic healing, Dr. Chopra will sign books at 12:30 p.m. and lecture on the “quantum alternative to growing old” at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Radisson Hotel, 2101 W. Vineyard Ave., Oxnard. The lecture, which costs $45, is sponsored by the Center for Perfect Health. Call 485-2883.

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Margaret Brownley, author of the just-published “The Kissing Bandit”, will talk about the best publishers from an author’s point of view at 6 p.m. Monday at Gold Coast Fiction Writers dinner meeting, Carrows Restaurant, Seaward Avenue and Harbor Boulevard, Ventura. Call 498-0968.

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Simi Valley author Jan Johnson will present a marketing workshop on How to Read an Editor’s Mind at the Christian Writers of Ventura meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at South Coast Fellowship, 1711 Wood Place, Ventura. Call 486-0635 for more information.

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Award-winning poet Geraldine C. Little, author of a dozen books and contributor to 350 journals, will speak to the Ventura County Writers Club at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pleasant Valley Church, 1101 Ponderosa Drive, Camarillo. The New Jersey resident has taught at Rutgers University and serves as poet-in-residence at many writers’ conferences. Call 642-6130.

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Ron Reichick, editor of Verve Magazine, is teaching a creative writing class for children from grades four and up at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3190 Cochran St., Simi Valley. The class began July 6, and is scheduled from 12:30 to 2 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday through Aug. 5. If your youngster can register and attend today, he/she will have missed only one session. Call 520-0690.

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Tales from the past: Fillmore became a city July 10, 1914. On July 12, 1886, Tapo Ranch in Simi Valley, consisting of fruit orchards, tillable soil and cattle rangeland, was offered for sale at $5 an acre.