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June 2012

EXHIBITS In the Main Gallery TUESDAY Tuesday Wednesday RICHARD R. MOGER, Architect, FAIA: 5 12 20 CHESS PLAYERS: Join fellow chess play- HYPERTENSION SCREENING: Free LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES meets. Form and Function, June 1 - 30 The Art ers for a game. Beginners welcome. Please blood pressure screening conducted by St. The public is invited. 7:30 p.m. Advisory Council hosts a reception for the bring a game if you have one. Tuesdays Francis Hospital. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. artist on Sunday, June 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. from 2 to 4 p.m. The artist will give small-group gallery GIRLS NIGHT OUT: Meet Rachelle Berg- talks on Tuesday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. and WORLD FILM FESTIVAL: This series stein, author of the entertaining and infor- Wednesday, June 13 at 2 p.m. Please sign continues with Ashes of Time Redux mative new book, Women from the Ankle up at the Information Desk beginning June (1994/2008-94 min.). Leslie Cheung, Tony Down (Harper, June 2012). Sponsored by 1. Story in this issue. Leung, Brigitte Lin, Jackie Cheung, Mag- of the Library. 7:30 p.m. Story in Thursday gie Cheung and Carina Lau star in Wong this issue. 21 In the Martin Vogel Photography Gallery BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: Mennonite Kar-wei’s re-edit of his art-house swash- rd in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen, PCLI: 33 Annual Exhibition, through buckler, set in China’s Yuli Desert. In facilitated by Lee Fertitta. 1:30 p.m. June 30. For over three decades, Photog- Cantonese with English subtitles. 7:30 p.m. raphy Club of Long Island members have 3rd THURSDAYS @ 3: North Italian Paint- exhibited their landscapes, seascapes, ing. Ines Powell’s presentation will focus on the art of painters active between the cityscapes, still lifes, portraits, travel pic- Wednesday tures and abstractions at the library. 13 end of the 15th and the middle of the 16th BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: Faith by centuries. Works by Bellini, Titian, Lotto, In the Community Gallery Jennifer Haigh, facilitated by Lee Fertitta. Giambattista Moroni and other artists will THURSDAY SENIOR ART MONTH: Artists from Port 7 7:30 p.m. be discussed. The presentation will serve Washington Senior Citizens, Inc. will ex- DIRECTOR’S CUT: Film expert John as an introduction to a special exhibition at hibit their work. Bosco will screen and discuss Albert Nobbs The Metropolitan Museum of Art through (2011-113 min.). A woman (Glenn Close) September 3. 3 p.m. AAC poses as a man named Albert Nobbs so REGISTRATIONS Thursday she can work as a butler in Dublin’s most 28 In Progress posh hotel. Close also scripted, with John WORLD FILM FESTIVAL: Saawarya Banville and Gabriella Prekop, from a Thursday (2007-138 min.). Streetwalker Lilipop Women, Wealth & Wardrobe . . .See June 2 14 short story by Moore, for direc- SOUNDSWAP: AZTEC TWO-STEP. Rex (Zohra Seghal) falls in love with shy mu- Beginning June 4 tor Rodrigo Garcia. The cast also includes Fowler and Neal Shulman continue their sician Ranbir (Ranbir Kapoor), but he is Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska, Pauline 40th anniversary celebration with a return Friday smitten with the melancholy Sakina (So- Manhasset Bay Boat Tours . . . . See June 4 22 Collins, Phyllida Law, Brendan Gleeson, engagement. This program is made pos- SANDWICHED IN: After Happily Ever nam Kapoor), who in turn yearns for the Beginning June 11 Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Brenda sible by The Friends of the Library. 7:30 After (2011-62min.) is filmmaker Kate lover who promised to return to her a year Fricker. 7:30 p.m. p.m. Story on front page. Schermerhorn’s quirky, funny and moving ago. Screenwriters Prakash Kapadia and Teen Summer Programs . . .See back page personal quest for the secret to a happy Vibhu Puri adapted Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Beginning June 12 marriage and for answers to some timely story “White Nights” (filmed previously by questions about an institution that, surpris- Luchino Visconti as Le Notti Bianchi) for Kindle, Nook or iPad? . . .See June 29 ingly, is rarely examined in any compre- producer/director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. hensive way. The film features an eclectic Monty and Sameer composed the tunes, mix of long-married couples, from a couple Friday Friday and Ravi K. Chandran provided the ravish- 8 15 who dress alike every day, to a pair of nud- ing color cinematography. In Hindi with Muriel’s Wedding Identity Theft. Friday SANDWICHED IN: SANDWICHED IN: Ralph ists and a pair of newlywed mothers, to a English subtitles. 7:30 p.m. 1 (1995, 108 mins.) Muriel Heslop finds Pernick, Assistant Attorney General, Nas- feisty English widow, all of whom reveal SANDWICHED IN: Automotive Styling at life in Porpoise Spit, dull, and sau Regional Office, State of New York their secret to making their own unions GM. The early 1950s was an exciting time spends her days alone in her room listen- Office of the Attorney General, will discuss succeed. Along the way, Schermerhorn in American automobile design. In this il- ing to ABBA music and dreaming of her tips for consumers. Learn how to protect chronicles the joys and heartbreaks of her lustrated lecture, H. Roy Jaffe, who worked wedding day. The problem is – Muriel yourself and what to do if you become a own marriage, and finds that even the best as a stylist for General Motors from 1949 has never had a date. Deciding to stop victim. 12:10 p.m. advice can’t always guarantee happiness. to 1953, will talk about the design process. dreaming and start doing, she “acquires” 12:10 p.m. 29 Friday 12:10 p.m. some , goes on a tropical vacation, SANDWICHED IN: Forever Free. James SCRABBLE PLAYERS!! Come and join us meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Coll will discuss the American legal and SCRABBLE PLAYERS! Come and join us for a game! 2 to 5 p.m. Mariel, and turns her world upside down. political struggle towards the abolition of for a game! 3 to 5:30 p.m. This film, shot for $3,000,000, has grossed FAMILY FILM: “HUGO” (2011-126 min.). slavery, focusing on the structure and im- “” (2011-146 min.). Producer/ more than $57,500,000 worldwide. Written Orphan Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in the pact of President Lincoln’s Emancipation director and screenwrit- and directed by P. J. Hogan, starring Toni walls of a train station in 1930s in Paris. Proclamation, as well as post-Civil War ers and Richard Curtis adapt Collette, Rachel Griffths and Bill Hunter. The only thing that he has left that con- developments. 12:10 p.m. ’s novel about the You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll sing-along to nects him to his father is an automaton INTRODUCTION TO E-READING: New friendship between trainer Albert (Jeremy ABBA with Muriel. 12:10 p.m. that doesn’t work — Hugo embarks on a Kindle, Nook, or iPad? Interested, but don’t Irvine) and horse Joey, who both risk their search for its missing heart-shaped key. “THE DESCENDANTS” (2011-115 min.). know where to start? Staff and volunteers lives in World War I. Peter Mullan, Emily On his adventures, he befriends a cranky Hawaiian landowner Matt King (Oscar present an overview of popular e-readers Watson, Niels Arestrup, David Thewlis, old man () and his adventure- nominee ), an indifferent and our free e-book lending feature. Bring Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumber- seeking goddaughter Isabelle (Chloe husband and neglectful father of two girls, your e-reader device. Limited registration batch round out the cast. Janusz Kaminski Grace Moretz), but must evade the Station must re-examine his past and embrace begins June 12. Prerequisite: Computer served as cinematographer, and John Wil- Inspector (). Director his future when his wife falls into a coma kindergarten or the equivalent. 3 p.m. liams composed the score. 7:30 p.m. after a boating accident. Producer/director and screenwriter John Alexander Payne scripted with Nat Faxon Logan adapted Brian Selznick’s children’s “TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY” (2011- and Jim Rash, from the novel by Kaui Hart LIVE@PWPL: Meet Marc Dolan, author book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. How- 128 min.). In the bleak days of the Cold Hemmings. The comedy-drama earned an of Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of ard Shore provided the musical score. This War, veteran spy George Smiley (Academy Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and Rock ‘n Roll. Musical illustration will be movie is rated PG. Note the early start Award nominee Gary Oldman) is forced was nominated for Best Picture, Director provided by Tom Cavanagh. 7:30 p.m. time: 7 p.m. from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Saturday and Editor. The cast also includes Shailene Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. agent within MI6. Screenwriters Bridget 2 Woodley, Beau Bridges, Michael Ontkean, Story in this issue. O’Connor and Peter Straughan earned an WOMEN, WEALTH & WARDROBE: The Robert Forster, Matthew Lillard and Judy Oscar nomination for their adaptation of Nine Must Have Accessories for Your Greer. 7:30 p.m. John Le Carré’s novel. Alberto Iglesias’s Financial Plan. Presented by financial music was also Oscar-nominated. Kathy professionals Samuel J. Schiff and Ande Monday Burke, , Colin D’Addona. Registration in progress, in 25 Firth, Tom Hardy, Ciaran Hinds, John person or by calling 883-4400, Ext. 136. WORLD FILM FESTIVAL: Osama (2003- Hurt, Toby Jones, Simon McBurney, Mark Learn the importance of having the nine Sunday 83 min.). A 12-year-old Afghan girl (Marina Strong and Roger Lloyd-Pack co-star in essential components of a successful 17 Golbahari) and her mother lose their jobs. Tomas Alfredson’s movie. 7:30 p.m. A SILENT CINEMA DOUBLE BILL: In financial plan. This seminar uses humor Saturday The Red Lily (1924-81 min.), circumstance The Taliban have forbidden women to and fashion knowledge to communicate 9 leave their houses without a male escort. NEXT CHAPTER: Join us for a discussion separates two lovers, leading Jean Leonnec financial concepts. Sponsored by the Jobs of current events. Bring your opinion! 10 (Ramon Novarro) to a life of thievery and With her husband and brother dead, the & Careers Information Center. 1 p.m. mother disguises her daughter as a boy. SPONSORSHIPS a.m. to noon. making Marise La Nove (Enid Bennett) AAC Art Advisory Council Now called Osama, the girl embarks on a fallen woman. Director Fred Niblo also CAC Children’s Advisory Council scripted. After a brief intermission, the a terrifying and confusing journey as she Health Advisory Council comedy The Red Mill (1927-74 min.) finds tries to keep the Taliban from finding out HAC downtrodden Dutch barmaid Tina (Marion her true identity. Director Siddiq Barmak MAC Music Advisory Council also scripted. In Pashtu with English sub- Davies) falling in love with Irish playboy Nautical Advisory Council titles. 7:30 p.m. NAC SUNDAY Dennis (Owen Moore). Credited director All programs sponsored by the Advisory 3 William Goodrich is actually comedian Councils are funded by donations to the Port RICHARD R. MOGER, Architect, FAIA: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Both films are The Art Advisory Council hosts a recep- Washington Library Foundation. silent with musical scores. 1:30 p.m. tion for the artist. 2 to 4 p.m. Story in this In addition to the Friends-sponsored programs issue. listed above, refreshments for the Sandwiched Wednesday In Series are courtesy of the Friends of the 27 Library. WORLD FILM FESTIVAL: Queen of Hearts (La Reine des Pommes) (2009-82 min.). Priority Seating at all events is given to Port Monday Thirty-something Adèle (writer/director Washington residents and cardholders. 18 Valérie Donzelli) is devastated after a Food Allergy Disclaimer: Participants with food Monday AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA: Macbeth. 4 Giuseppe Verdi’s life-long fascination with painful breakup. Her distant cousin Ra- allergies need to be aware of the risk of foods MANHASSET BAY BOAT TOURS: Get a the works of Shakespeare inspired him to chel (Beatrice De Stael) reluctantly takes consumed or items one may come in contact different perspective on Port’s beautiful adapt three of the playwright’s works, with her in and graciously attempts to salvage with while at any of our programs. waterfront with a 90-minute boat tour. Sunday the long desired King Lear, which never Adèle’s personal and professional lives. Registration begins June 4. Tours take 10 Rachel finds Adèle a job and suggests that CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE WARREN SCHEIN IN CONCERT: The appeared, as his fourth adaptation. None- Lori Gerbasi, Jonathan Guildroy, Jessica Ley, place on Saturday, June 9 at 10 a.m. & noon, she sleep with other men to get over her Velvet Mist will enterain you with songs theless, Verdi’s adaptations of Macbeth, Brooke Salit, Joni Simon, Tony Traguardo Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m., Saturday June from the Great American Songbook. 3 p.m. Othello and The Merry Wives of Windsor heartbreak. Adèle bounces from one lover 23 at 10 a.m. & noon, Sunday July 1 at 10 to the next in search of the perfect compan- certainly give us wonderful operatic ap- Port Washington Public Library / (516) 883- a.m. and 1 p.m., and Thursday July 12 at 7 ion but can’t escape the visage of her ex. proaches to the work of the Bard. Join 4400 p.m. A $5 per person fee will be collected at professor James Kolb for an exploration Finally, she recognizes the man who may the time of registration. Proof of residency of this classic. 3 p.m. MAC just hold the answer to her broken heart. In LIBRARY HOURS required. Limit of 4 spots per registrant. French with English subtitles. Also, Alois Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9 to 9 You may sign up for only one tour. For WORLD FILM FESTIVAL: Malena (2000- Di Leo’s romantic short, Luis and Marta Wednesday, 11 to 9 • Saturday, 9 to 5 more information, leave a message for Jeff Monday 92 min.). Teenager Giuseppe Sulfaro falls Work Together (2011-11 min.). This screen- Sunday 1 to 5 Zeh at Ext. 181. NAC 11 in love with town beauty Monica Bellucci, ing comes to us from Film Movement, an WORLD FILM FESTIVAL: The Color of Paradise (2000-90 min.). A blind boy’s despite vicious gossip about her. Giuseppe organization which makes outstanding father plans to disown him, convinced that Tornatore directed. Lajos Koltai’s cinema- foreign films and documentaries available having a disabled son will spoil his upcom- tography and Ennio Morricone’s score to educational institutions. 7:30 p.m. ing wedding. Director Majid Majidi also earned Oscar nods. In Italian with English subtitles. 7:30 p.m. PORT WRITES. The group discusses their scripted this Iranian production. In Farsi work and how to get it published. Facili- with English subtitles. 7:30 p.m. tated by Michael Chaplan. 8 p.m.