2014 Rancho Mirage Speaker Series line-up announced
Novelist Jackie Collins, actress Ashley Judd,former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers and the daughters of formerPresident George W. Bush are the speakers for Rancho Mirage’s 2014 SpeakersSeries, it was announced today.
Each talk will start at 7 p.m. at the Annenberg Center for HealthSciences at Eisenhower Medical Center. Series tickets go on sale Oct. 15 andindividual tickets on Nov. 5 at www.ranchomirageca.gov, according toorganizers.
Collins’ Jan. 18 talk, presented with the Rancho Mirage WritersFestival, is considered a bonus and is an additional $50 for seriesticketholders, according to organizers. Collins has written 29 books on The NewYork Times list of bestsellers and sold more than 500 million books in morethan 40 countries. Her most recent bestseller, “The Power Trip,” waspublished in February and is a thriller set on a yacht off the coast ofMexico’s Cabo San Lucas.
The rest of the lineup:
— Judd, Jan. 29: Judd has appeared in more than 20 movies and inBroadway productions and on television. Her starring roles include “DoubleJeopardy,” “Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood,” “De-Lovely,” and“Ruby in Paradise,” which won the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury prizein 1993. She has also traveled, testified and spoken in support of humanitarianefforts, including public health and poverty alleviation, according to herwebsite.
— Myers, Feb. 19: Myers was White House press secretary duringPresident Bill Clinton’s first term in the mid 1990s, the first woman andsecond youngest person to hold the position. After leaving the White House, sheappeared on NBC political talk show “Equal Time” and was a consultant for NBCdrama “The West Wing.” She’s a political commentator and contributing editorto Vanity Fair and published “Why Women Should Rule the World” in 2008.
— Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Hager, March 19: Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps, an organization that advocates health equity,and a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee, which works toreduce the number of daily preventable deaths of children. Hager, Bush’s twinsister, is a contributing correspondent to NBC’s “Today Show” and author of“Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope,” about a young woman with HIV inspired byHager’s internship at UNICEF.
Series tickets are $150 for preferred seating and $120 for generalseating. Individual tickets cost $60 for preferred seating and $45 for generalseating. The bonus ticket for Collins is $50. Admittance to after-parties witheach speaker is available for an additional fee.
The speakers series hotline is (760) 770-3205.
