Peter Bonventre

Each year friends and colleagues of the Axthelms are invited to share their experiences with Marquette students through lecture. Peter Bonventre, this year's lecturer, will present "The Hollywood Reporter: Separating Fact from Fiction and the Crazy Business of Dreams."

Bonventre, an Emmy-award winning journalist, is the executive editor of Entertainment Weekly. A 1967 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, his journalism career began that same year as a news assistant at The New York Times. After his move to Newsweek in 1969, he covered a wide variety of topics, from medicine to national politics, but concentrated on sports.

Bonventre helped create and launch Inside Sports in 1979. He was the managing editor of Inside Sports until he joined the weekly sports journalism show, SportsBeat, as a writer/producer/correspondent in 1983.

He has worked for CBS Morning News, CBS Morning Program, and Life magazine. He was a senior editor of Life Magazine until he joined the staff of Entertainment Weekly as an assistant managing editor. Bonventre was promoted to his present position of executive editor in 1997.

Bonventre's stories have appeared seven times in E.P. Dutton's annual anthology, Best Sports Stories. He has received two Page One Awards for his reporting on the 1975 Ali-Frazier heavyweight championship in Manila and for his reporting on the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal. While at SportsBeat, he won two Emmy awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sports Journalism and one Emmy for his work as a producer of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

He co-authored 'I Never Played the Game' with Howard Cosell, which appeared on The New York Times' best-seller list for 22 weeks. He also received a Cable ACE Award nomination for Knockout: Hollywood's Love Affair with Boxing, a documentary Bonventre wrote and produced for American Movie Classics.

Bonventre resides in Manhattan with his wife and son.

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