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Ricki Spector BookerRicki Spector Booker ’90 originally thought she would pursue documentary filmmaking after CC. But a class project, focusing on abused children in Colorado Springs, exposed Spector to the challenge of remaining objective. “I learned I wanted to teach while entertaining. I like the emotional connection,” says Spector.

So, shortly after earning her M.F.A. in filmmaking from the University of Southern California, Spector joined the Hollywood fast track. She began as an assistant at United Artists, then moved to Roth Arnold where she helped produce the films “Grosse Pointe Blank” and “Forces of Nature.” Spector returned to MGM/United Artists as an executive and worked on such films as “Legally Blonde,” “Heartbreakers,” and “Autumn in New York.” At that time, she married Stewart Booker, whom she’d met in Vail, Colo.

“It was an intense job, with social events and scripts to read every night,” says Spector. “And I couldn’t stomach the politics.” Knowing that she and Stewart wanted a family, Spector explored family programming and took a job at Nickelodeon. “I loved what the company stood for, and the interfacing of movies, television, and the Internet,” she says. Over the course of four years, Ricki worked on the films “Rugrats in Paris,” “Clockstoppers,” and “Jimmy Neutron.” She worked through her first pregnancy and then stopped working when she gave birth to her second daughter.

Today, Spector enjoys her latest profession: mother to Daisy, age three and a half, and to Charley, now six months old. Spector is also working on a new children’s project called “Change is Strange.”

“I feel in control of my destiny. I may go back to producing, but for now, I need to take a breath,” says Spector. “I haven’t been this happy for so long.”

— Lisa Ellis ’82


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