Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends by Max Evans & Robert Nott

Author:Max Evans & Robert Nott [Evans, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2014-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Postscript

Katy broke away from Sam in 1977 at the end of Convoy. She joined Michael Deeley at EMI Films as a post-production supervisor on Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. In 1981 she was the executive in charge of production with Deeley on Ridley Scott’s cult sci-fi film Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford. She served in a similar capacity for Paul Bartel’s Not for Publication and Michael Cimino’s The Sicilian and was the production coordinator on At Close Range starring Sean Penn and Christopher Walken. In the early 1990s she began raising funds and volunteering for a homeless shelter in Los Angeles, which, in Katy’s words, “turned into thirteen years of running a homeless shelter”—namely as executive director of Justiceville/Homeless USA’s Dome Village transitional housing community. She founded the Los Angeles Krickets, a cricket team made up of homeless youth, and, through them, started the Compton Cricket Club, which, she said, “started with me recruiting all these gangbangers from Compton to play cricket.” The team is also known as the Compton Homies and the Popz, and it toured England in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001, even playing games at Windsor Castle under the auspices of Prince Edward.

Katy has been an active board member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Los Angeles for over twenty-two years, and she also serves on the board for the Association for the Recovery of Children, a nonprofit dedicated to rescuing missing and exploited children around the world. She has coproduced documentaries on Sam Peckinpah, including Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron in 1993 (with Paul Joyce) as well as Mike Siegel’s Passion and Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005). She continues to develop various film projects as of this writing. In 2011 she cofounded the Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble, coproducing three Shakespeare plays with inner-city students from George Washington Preparatory High School.

In 2010 Katy was awarded the Martin Luther King Keeper of the Dream Award for her work with disengaged youth in Los Angeles. In 2011 she became an honorary doctor of arts at the University of Bedfordshire in recognition of her career in the film industry as well as for her contributions countering homelessness and crime and advocating for transformational education. In the spring of 2012 she was awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Honours List for her services to the community in Los Angeles. She was also presented the honor at Buckingham Palace by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and also earned certificates of recognition from the City and County of Los Angeles for her community service.

Katy is working on a book called The Puppet Box. Though her parents escaped the Nazi-fueled Holocaust, the rest of her family perished in concentration camps. “My parents spent their entire time in England trying to find out what happened to my family,” she said. “They had escaped from Prague in 1939—two weeks after Hitler’s troops entered the city.” In 2009 Katy and Ali

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