New Yorker festival sets guest list

Eastwood, Colbert, Stone among notables

By SAM THIELMAN

Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Tommy Lee Jones and Stephen Colbert are among the notables set to take part in the New Yorker Festival, running Oct. 3-5.

Event hosted in various venues by the venerable magazine is a mix of 50 events, most of them panels and interviews seshes.

Discussions will include Matt Groening and Lynda Barry on cartooning; legiters Lauren Ambrose, Ethan Hawke, Kristen Johnston, Martha Plimpton and Liev Schreiber on acting Shakespeare; and a long list of literary figures talking about fiction, including Jeffrey Eugenides and Elmore Leonard.

New Yorker film critic David Denby will interview Stone about his work as a director and will host clips from the upcoming George Bush biopic "W."

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