June 2011

EXHIBITS In the Main Gallery Sunday Saturday Friday Friday HEE YOUNG LEE: Instant Smile, June 5 11 17 24 GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM NEXT CHAPTER: A discussion of current SANDWICHED IN: Franz Kafka and the SANDWICHED IN: Unknown History of 2 - 30. The Art Advisory Council hosts a FESTIVAL: Panel Discussion. Program to events. Bring your opinions! 10:30 a.m. to Movies. This illustrated lecture will give a Science. Dr. Scott Thomas Cairns, visiting reception for the artist on Saturday, June be announced. 3 to 5 p.m. noon. Contact Lee Fertitta at 883-4400, Ext. short introduction to Franz Kafka’s life and professor at SUNY Old Westbury, will give 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. Story in this issue. 135 for more information. times in Prague, as well as a discussion of a broad overview of the history of science In the Photography Gallery his most important works and of his love in the western world, beginning with the HEE YOUNG LEE: The Art Advisory of the emerging silent movies. With Maria Ancient Egyptians through to the present THE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB OF LONG Council hosts a recption for the artist nd Luise Caputo-Mayr, director of the Kafka day’s chaos and string theories. 12:10 p.m. ISLAND: 32 ANNUAL EXHIBITION, whose work is in the Main Gallery this Society of America and professor emerita Tangled through June 30. For over three decades, month. 2 to 4 p.m. AAC of literature, Temple University. 12:10 p.m. FAMILY FILM: (2010-100 min.). club members have exhibited their land- Monday See Library Kids page for description. scapes, seascapes, cityscapes, still lifes, 6 SCRABBLE PLAYERS: An opportunity for Note the early start time: 7 p.m. GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP: portraits, travel pictures and abstractions Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: Chapters 21 players to get together for a game! 2 to 4 at the library. and 22. 1 p.m. p.m. Contact Lee Fertitta at 883-4400, Ext. 135 for more information. In the Community Gallery SOUNDSWAP: Grammy Award-winning Notes on a Scandal. guitarist Laurence Juber. 7:30 p.m. Story Sunday LIVE@PWPL: Ales- 12 sandro Stradella’s (1644-1682) colorful life in this issue. inspired several artists at the turn of this Saturday century, and he is also the subject of the 25 VIOLIN & PIANO CONCERT: Isadore Stradella: An Old Italian historical novel, Horowitz and Phil Malamud will perform Love Tale by F. Marion Crawford, pub- music by Bach, Beethoven, Cowell and lished in London in 1909. This program Dvorak. Sponsored by the Tepper Inter- follows the story of the novel, and excerpts generational Fund of the Port Washington Tuesday are read as interludes between the musical Library Foundation. 3 p.m. 7 pieces, which feature Stradella’s works and EXERCISE FOR OVER 50 LOTTERY: Put your check for $35, payable to the Port other period Italian vocal and instrumental Washington Public Library, into the box selections. With Melissa Fogarty, Jennifer at the Information Desk between June 7 Griesbach and Christine Gummere. 7:30 and June 21. This lottery is for a series of p.m. 9 classes on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. to take place July 6 through September 7. When 28 Tuesday you drop off your check, you will be asked CHESS PLAYERS: Join fellow chess play- to fill out a postcard so that we can let you ers for a game. Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. SENIOR ART MONTH: Artists from Port know you if you are in the class. If you are during May and June. Beginners welcome. Washington Senior Citizen’s, Inc. will ex- not chosen, your check will be returned. Monday Please bring a game if you have one. hibit their work. Story in this issue. 20 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC: AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA: Cavalle- “SOMEWHERE” (2010-98 min.). Writer/ Help us as we begin our 2011 Strategic ria Rusticana. Pietro Mascagni’s short and director Sofia Coppola’s comedy-drama REGISTRATIONS Planning process. We want your ideas and gritty verismo opera, Cavalleria Rusticana stars Stephen Dorff as decadent actor comments about the library and where we (“Rustic Chivalry”) explores the world of Johnny Marco, whose life must change Beginning June 7 should be heading in the next five years. peasant Sicily on an Easter Sunday morn- when his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Ella Exercise Lottery ...... See June 7 Join us for this interactive session. Refresh- 8th Annual Warren Schein Con- ing, revealing hidden passions, romance Fanning) arrives unexpectedly at his Cha- ments will be served. 11:30a.m. cert: The Velvet Mist sings your favor- and betrayal, seduction, adultery, and a teau Marmont hotel suite. 7:30 p.m. Beginning June 21 ites, accompanied by Frank Sanchez on fight to the death. With Professor James CHESS PLAYERS: Join fellow chess play- piano. 3 p.m. Kolb. 3 p.m. MAC Teen Summer Programs . . . See back page ers for a game. Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. during May and June. Beginners welcome. “BLACK SWAN” (2010-108 min.). Inse- Please bring a game if you have one. cure ballet dancer Nina Sayers (Academy Award winner Natalie Portman) lands the HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAUL GAUGUIN! Thursday lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip Wednesday Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin was on reality as she suspects that rival dancer 29 2 born in Paris on June 7, 1848, and grew up A CENTENNIAL SALUTE TO BERNARD FROM BANNED BOOK TO BIG Monday Lily (Mila Kunis) is out to steal the role. HERRMANN: Bernard Herrmann was SCREEN: The Color Purple (1985-154 in Peru. He rejected life as a stockbroker to 13 This psychological thriller from Oscar- CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC: born on June 29, 1911 in New York City. min.). Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Win- become a painter, sculptor and printmaker, nominated director Darren Aronofsky frey and Danny Glover star in Steven traveling to Martinique, Tahiti and the Help us as we begin our 2011 Strategic He began composing for films with Orson Planning process. We want your ideas and and screenwriters Mark Heyman, Andres Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), and later col- Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s Marquesas Islands in a dogged search for Heinz and John J. McLaughlin also stars classic novel about young black women a paradise uncorrupted by western civiliza- comments about the library and where we laborated with Alfred Hitchcock on nine should be heading in the next five years. Victor Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona projects, including the spine-chilling all- living in the segregated South. Join Dylan tion. He died on May 3, 1903. To celebrate Ryder and Benjamin Millepied. 7:30 p.m. Skolnick, co-director of the Cinema Arts the artist’s wild life and colorful work, we Join us for this interactive session. Refresh- strings score for Psycho (1960). Herrmann Centre, for an exploration of this film. screen Waldemar Januszczak’s widescreen ments will be served. 7:30p.m. also worked in the science fiction genre be- Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. documentary, Gauguin: The Full Story ginning with The Day the Earth Stood Still 2:30 p.m (2003-120 min.). 7:30 p.m. (1951). He completed his final score, for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, the night GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM before his death on December 24, 1975. FESTIVAL: Remembering John Cassa- Tuesday To commemorate the composer’s centen- vetes. Tonight we present Gloria (1980- 21 nial, we screen Cy Endfield’s adaptation of CHESS PLAYERS: Join fellow chess play- 123 min.), which he scripted and directed. Tuesday Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1961-101 14 ers for a game. Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. When the mob comes to kill him, an ac- HYPERTENSION SCREENING: Free min.), in which castaways encounter mad during May and June. Beginners welcome. countant (Buck Henry) entrusts his young Wednesday blood pressure screening conducted by St. scientist Captain Nemo (Herbert Lom) son (John Admes) and an incriminating 8 Please bring a game if you have one. BOOK DISCUSSION: A discussion of Keep- Francis Hospital. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a slew of giant animals (provided by ledger to his neighbor, former gun moll ing the World Away by Margaret Forster, special effects master Ray Harryhausen, CHESS PLAYERS: Join fellow chess play- Gloria (actress Gena Rowlands was John’s facilitated by Lee Fertitta. 7:30 p.m. and each outfitted with a unique musical ers for a game. Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. wife). 7:30 p.m. motif by Herrmann). 1 p.m. during May and June. Beginners welcome. Please bring a game if you have one. MEET ROBERT LIPSYTE: An Accidental Sportswriter. Story in this issue. 7:30 p.m. Thursday Friday 9 THursday 3 HOW TO USE YOUR FOREIGN DEGREE 30 SANDWICHED IN: Mysteries of Architec- IN THE UNITED STATES: Learn skills “TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT” (1960-87 ture. Why are some buildings admired and strategies to use your university de- min.). Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of for centuries and some for only a short the Apes has been a popular movie char- gree and your experience to rebuild your time? We usually read about significant career. This session is intended for skilled Wednesday acter since Elmo Lincoln first played him buildings after that special creative mo- 15 immigrants. It will focus on how to write LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES meets. in 1918. Johnny Weissmuller was the first ment has occurred. Join Eric Pick of the an American style resume, networking, and The public is invited at 7:30 p.m. talkie Tarzan in a string of films between Art Advisory Council for a discussion of 1932 and 1948, after which Lex Barker took marketing oneself in an interview. No reg- “BAD DAY TO GO FISHING” (Mal Dia the creative process that preceded the over the role. In tonight’s feature, Gordon istration required. Presented by Upwardly par Pescar) (2009-107 min.). Jacob van Op- building of the Pyramids, the Acropolis Scott plays the Ape Man as he escorts a Global and co-sponsored by the library’s pen (Jouko Ahola), the former “strongest and others. 12:10 p.m. notorious killer (future Tarzan Jock Ma- ESOL Program and the Jobs & Careers man on earth,” and his manager “Prince” honey) through the jungle to the Kairobi GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM Information Center. 7 p.m. Orsini (Gary Piquer), make a good living authorities. Director Robert Day scripted FESTIVAL: Panel Discussion. Program to by traveling to South American villages and Thursday with Berne Giler. 7:30 p.m. be announced. 3 to 5 p.m. 16 organizing wrestling exhibitions. Arriving BOOK DISCUSSION: A discussion of Mrs. in Santa Maria, Uruguay, they are met with “JUDY, FRANK & DEAN: ONCE IN A Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days uncommon enthusiasm: the local newspa- LIFETIME” (1962-50 min.). Norman Jewi- of Napoleon by Michael O’Brien, facilitated per wants to sponsor the fight, putting out SPONSORSHIPS son’s Emmy-nominated television special AAC Art Advisory Council by Lee Fertitta. 1:30 p.m. an open call for a worthy adversary. The features Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Friday Children’s Advisory Council 10 3rd THURSDAYS @ 3: Rooms with a View: resourceful Orsini knows how to select CAC Dean Martin performing such songs as SANDWICHED IN: Piano Men. Ken a good combatant, but fishing in Santa HAC Health Advisory Council “Just in Time, “When You’re Smiling,” The Open Window in the 19th Century. The Kresge plays 100 years of piano from Joplin Maria could lead to a bigger catch than MAC Music Advisory Council “You Do Something to Me,” “You’re Just exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of to Joel, from Ragtime to Bebop, from Stride he’d hoped for. Alvaro Brechner scripted Too Marvelous,” “You Must Have Been a Art focuses on the Romantic motif of the NAC Nautical Advisory Council to the Blues and beyond. Ken chronicles and directed with actor Gary Piquer, from Beautiful Baby,” “I See Your Face Before open window as first captured by German, All programs sponsored by the Advisory Councils are notable jazz pianists and interprets a variety a short story by Juan Carlos Onetti. In Me,” “The Man That Got Away,” and many Danish, French and Russian artists around privately funded by donations to the Port Washington of jazz piano styles. 12:10 p.m. Spanish with English subtitles. Before the Library Foundation. more. Television producer Bob Waldman, 1810–20. Join Ines Powell for a discussion feature, we offer two short films: Anouk who has presented programs saluting LIVE@PWPL: Savannah Sky plays the best of the exhibition, which continues through In addition to the Friends-sponsored programs listed Ogueta’s Sofia (2005-18 min.) and Gary Steve Allen, Fred Astaire, Perry Como of traditional country music, with a gener- July 4. 3 p.m. AAC above, refreshments for the Sandwiched In Series are Piquer’s The Nine Mile Walk (2003-20 and Popeye the Sailor, will introduce this ous helping of western swing, rockabilly courtesy of the Friends of the Library. and blues. Nina Gordon on guitar and DIRECTOR’S CUT: Film expert John min). This screening comes to us from screening. 7:30 p.m. Bosco will screen and discuss Rabbit Hole Priority Seating at all events is given to Port vocals, Bruce Kirshner on fiddle, guitar Film Movement, an organization which Washington residents and cardholders. and vocals, Skip Krevens on pedal steel, (2010-92 min.). Becca and Howie Corbett makes outstanding independent films, guitar and vocals, Dave Sonneborn on (Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart) are foreign films and documentaries available Food Allergy Disclaimer: Participants with food returning to their everyday existence in to educational institutions. 7:30 p.m. allergies need to be aware of the risk of foods bass and vocals, and Billy Lang on drums, consumed or items one may come in contact with glockenspiel and vocals. 7:30 p.m. the wake of the shocking, sudden loss of their child. Now they are caught in a maze while at any of our programs. Saturday of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 4 sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from Lori Gerbasi, Jonathan Guildroy, Jessica Ley, Peggy, GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM which they cannot escape. John Cameron O’Hanlon, Brooke Salit, Elly Shodell, Joni Simon, FESTIVAL: Panel Discussion. Program to Mitchell directed, from scenarist David Tony Traguardo be announced. 3 to 5 p.m. Lindsay-Abaire’s adaptation of his own Wednesday Port Washington Public Library / (516) 883-4400 stage play. 7:30 p.m. 22 PORT WRITES: The group discusses their LIBRARY HOURS work and how to get it published. Facili- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9 to 9 tated by Michael Chaplan. 8 p.m Wednesday, 11 to 9 • Saturday, 9 to 5 Sunday 1 to 5 (June 5 & 12)