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‘Intimate Conversation’ with Patty Duke

In this Aug. 17, 2004 file photo, actress Patty Duke is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.Duke, who won an Oscar as a child at the start of an acting career that continued through her adulthood, died Tuesday, March 29, 2016, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
In this Aug. 17, 2004 file photo, actress Patty Duke is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.Duke, who won an Oscar as a child at the start of an acting career that continued through her adulthood, died Tuesday, March 29, 2016, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
In this Aug. 17, 2004 file photo, actress Patty Duke is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.Duke, who won an Oscar as a child at the start of an acting career that continued through her adulthood, died Tuesday, March 29, 2016, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

In 2010, Jim Kershner of The Spoksman-Review interviewed Patty Duke about her upcoming role with Spokane’s Interplayers in “An Intimate Conversation: Patty Duke”:

Patty Duke has several goals for her three-day gig at Interplayers, “An Intimate Conversation: Patty Duke,” starting tonight:

  • She wants it to be like a live, local version of “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” with local actor-director Reed McColm playing the James Lipton role of host.
  • She wants to connect, in a neighborly way, with her fellow Inland Northwest residents.
  • And she wants to help Interplayers raise plenty of cash.

“We were a little audacious in thinking that an evening with Patty Duke could make some funds for the theater,” she said with a laugh. “I’m hoping it will.  “You know, I have loved all of the theaters in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, and I don’t want them to go anywhere.”

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog