Rochester Institute of Technology film professor Jeffrey Owen Jones, who reputedly was immortalized as the "Mr. Jones" whom Bob Dylan referred to in "Ballad of a Thin Man," died on Nov. 10 of lung cancer, it was reported on Monday. Jones had interviewed Dylan as a summer intern for Time magazine at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, shortly before Dylan wrote his song, which begins, "You walk into the room/With your pencil in your hand/You see somebody naked/And you say, 'Who is that man?'" and which ends, "Something is happening her/But you don't know what it is/Do you, Mr. Jones?" Later, in an article in Rolling Stone, Jones wrote: "I resented the caricature but had to admit that there was something happening there at Newport in the summer of 1965, and I didn't know what it was." In its obituary, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported that Jones later worked for the paper as a copy editor and later went on to become editor of Psychology Today, work at CBS, and ten years ago win a New York Emmy for Outstanding Fine Arts Programming.
Calling his films "both social critique and high art," the Berlin Film Festival has named 74-year-old director Constantin Costa-Gavras to head the jury at next year's festival. His 1989 film Music Box won the Berlinale's top Golden Bear award the following year. In 1969, his Z won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Most of his films have political themes and several have concerned repressive regimes all over the world.
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