Author: Atlanta Life / Source: ajc
Catherine Hand remembers that when she was 14 years old, her father Lloyd Hand, a longtime aide and chief of protocol under President Lyndon Johnson, asked her what she wanted to do when she grew up. She was sure, she said, she wanted to go into the entertainment industry.
“Not the law?” he asked, possibly worried about the young woman’s prospects in Tinseltown.Not a chance — Catherine Hand’s mind was made up and, in fact, she already had a project in mind. But it was only last week, more than 50 years after that conversation, that it finally came to fruition. Even as a child, Hand knew she wanted to make a movie out of her favorite book, Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle In Time.”
The movie, which premiered last week in Hollywood and hits theaters today, has uber A-listy credits, including Oscar-winning director Ava DuVernay and actresses Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling. Hand is a producer, and although her name might not be as familiar as the stars, her family is well-known in Washington, D.C.: Her mother, Ann Hand, is a jeweler whose designs are popular among the political set (her pins have graced some high-profile lapels on both sides of the aisle), and the Hands are a fixture on the city’s social scene.
Catherine Hand has had an epic journey bringing the children’s book to the big screen that almost reads like a movie of its own. Among the highlights was her first encounter with “A Wrinkle in Time,” when a librarian suggested it to the then 10-year-old who felt an instant connection to the story of a girl named Meg who searches through time and space for her missing father, a brilliant scientist who is being held captive.
Meg’s family lived in a big white house, and…
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