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11/13/2015 Memories, Ed Harris has a few. The year was 1984 and the actor, then 32, was working in New York City on stage in Fool For Love. One day, he got a call from a friend, late screenwriter Gill Dennis, telling him about a movie shooting down on the Gulf Coast by Florida filmmaker Victor Nunez, who had just one movie under his belt, 1979's Gal Young 'Un, which had received rave reviews. Soon, Nunez was pitching Harris about his second feature film, A Flash of Green, based on the novel by John D. MacDonald, about eco-corruption in a small town.

Harris was immediately interested in playing Jimmy Wing, a newspaper reporter covering the story about a greedy developer (The Mean Season's Richard Jordan) trying to destroy a nature preserve.

"I really wanted to do the project," Harris says by phone. "I had already made The Right Stuff and Under Fire, but this was a lead role. [Jimmy] was an interesting character. It was a long time ago but I remember it pretty clearly."

When he arrived to the set in Casey Key in Sarasota County, Harris quickly realized he was a long way from Manhattan.

"I stayed in this little cottage," he recalls. "It was a really simple and rural area."

During breaks, he'd throw out a line to see what would bite.

"I remember this one time I went fishing and I must have caught 12 different kinds of species in a matter of 20 minutes. Pompano, ribbon fish," Harris laughs. "Some bizarre looking animals."

The living was easy, as was the work process.

"I loved Victor's style, his sensibility and the simplicity of his camera work," says Harris, who will be honoring the director (Ulee's Gold, Ruby in Paradise) Saturday night at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 30th anniversary gala held at The Diplomat Resort & Spa. "He's a special guy and I can't wait to look him in the eye."

The moviemaking experience was made all the more special by the fact that Ed's father, Bob L. Harris who died last year, played his editor.

"He was a really good actor," says Harris of his costar in two other films, Riders of the Purple Sage and Appaloosa. "He did a lot of community theater in Evanston, Illinois, where he lived, and had been a singer in the early days of TV. I'm glad we got to do this together."

Harris, who has appeared in dozens of hits since (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, The Truman Show) and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 for Pollock, says Jimmy Wing remains one of the Oscar nominee's favorite characters to this day.

"This guy is an observer," explains the married father of one (wife is actress Amy Madigan). "He's not so much a participant in life until later in the film when he's forced to make some heavy decisions."

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Oscar nominees and real-life husband and wife Ed Harris and Amy Madigan, along with Cynthia Nixon, Sam Shepard and more, have been tapped for The New Group’s 2015-16 season. The three productions announced on May 12 will all play off-Broadway at The Pershing Square Signature Center.

First up this summer will be the off-Broadway premiere of Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley. Directed by Scott Elliott, previews are scheduled to begin August 2015 in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. In a society ravaged by warring gangs and a hallucinogenic-drug epidemic, Elliot and Darren, under the sway of the ruthless Spinx, throw parties for rich clients in abandoned apartment buildings, parties that help guests act out their darkest, most sinister fantasies. As the teenage brothers prepare for the latest festivities, some unexpected guests threaten the balance of the world they have created in the midst of this dystopian nightmare. A previous production of Mercury Fur played London’s Menier Chocolate Factory back in March 2005.

In the fall, Tony winner and former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon will helm bittersweet comedy Steve, penned by Mark Gerrard. As Steven, a failed Broadway chorus boy turned stay-at-home dad, celebrates yet another birthday, he finds himself filled with fear and uncertainty. Is Stephen, his partner of 14 years, cheating on him? Why is one of his best friends dying of cancer? And what, exactly, has he done with his life? Casting will be announced later. Previews will begin November 2015 in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre

Oscar nominees Harris and Madigan will lead a revival of Buried Child by Sam Shepard. Directed by Scott Elliott, previews will start in February 2016 in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre. Dodge (Harris) and Hallie (Madigan) are barely hanging on to their farmland and their sanity while looking after their two wayward grown sons. When their grandson Vince arrives with his girlfriend, no one seems to recognize him, and confusion abounds. As Vince tries to make sense of the chaos, the rest of the family dances around a deep, dark secret. This will not be the first time that Harris and his wife Madigan have teamed up for the New Group—in 2013 they appeared in the company's production of The Jacksonian.