Oscar-winning producer Walter Mirisch will not be attending events in his honor scheduled for this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mirisch, a 1942 UW-Madison graduate, canceled because of illness. A reception planned for Friday afternoon has been canceled, but a free screening of Mirisch’s Oscar-winning film “In the Heat of the Night” will be shown as planned at 7:30 p.m. at UW Cinematheque.