October ‘08 7 TUESDAY 14 TUESDAY 20 MONDAY 26 SUNDAY COMPUTER CLEANUP & SAFETY FOR DEFENSIVE DRIVING: Registration be- GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP: FOURTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF ADULTS: In this lecture and demon- gins October 14 for a 6-hour course open to A discussion of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin LONG ISLAND TALENT: Join John Platt, stration, learn how to speed up a slow all ages to take place Saturday, November Market. 2 p.m. host WFUV’s Sunday Morning Breakfast, computer, protect it from viruses, mini- 15, from 9:30 to 4:30. You may be eligible for an afternoon of homegrown talent AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA: Patience. mize junk e-mail and put a stop to pop-up for a discount on vehicle liability, personal featuring Caroline Doctorow, Johnny Sir Arthur Sullivan does a masterful job of windows. For intermediate and advanced injury protection and collision insurance Cuomo, Lois Morton, Joe Iadanza and the setting the satiric text of W. S. Gilbert to students. Registration begins October 7 premiums for 3 years, and a reduction of 4 Homegrown String Band — Georgianne music. Professor James Kolb entertain- for a class to be held Saturday, November points from your driving record. Port Wash- and Rick Jackofsky and their daughters, ingly examines this classic operetta in an 8 from 10 a.m. to noon. Payment of $12 is ington residents only. Your check or money Erica and Annalee. 2 p.m. due at registration. For Port Washington order made payable to Empire Safety audio-visual lecture. 3 p.m. FOL, MAC residents only. Council for $28 is due at registration. WORLD TRAVELER DOUG GOING will Mardi Gras: Made in U.S. MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY: TOPICAL TUESDAY: Meet Donald Axinn, screen and discuss China (2006-47 min.). Producer/director/ These competitive sailors will give a who will read from his 11th volume of editor David Redmon follows the “bead slide-illustrated talk about some of the poetry, Travel in My Borrowed Lives. 7:30 trail” from a factory in China, where work- races in which they’ve recently competed, p.m. FOL MONDAY including the TransPac and the Newport- ers earn ten cents an hour to manufacture 27 “PIT AND THE PENDULUM” (1961-80 Bermuda. 7:30 p.m. NAC strings of beads, to New Orleans, where Mardi Gras revelers toss the beads to the min.). A young man journeys to a creepy inebriated crowds. 7:30 p.m. castle to investigate the death of his sister in this Roger Corman classic, adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe story by scenar- WEDNESDAY ist Richard Matheson. The cast includes EXHIBITS 15 Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele WEDNESDAY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Execu- and Anthony Carbone. 7:30 p.m. In the Photography Gallery 8 tive session at 7 p.m. The public is invited “SHINE A LIGHT” (2008-121 min.). Film- PAUL HUNTER: ar-chi-tec-ture, through at 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY maker Martin Scorsese combines new October 31. 21 footage of the Rolling Stones performing SOUNDSWAP: Featuring a unique and SCIENCE 101: WHY DO WE HAVE SEA- In the Main Gallery in concert, including behind-the-scenes exciting local musician, Steve Adelson. SONS? In this second session led by Philip moments and vintage interviews. We start 7:30 p.m. Story in this issue. A. Sherman, we will discuss why we have VERONIQUE COUTANT-GODARD: a little later than usual because we plan to day and night, why we have seasons, and TUESDAY Voyage, October 2 through 30. The Art play the film LOUD! 8:45 p.m. what the solar system, our galaxy, and the 28 Advisory Council hosts a reception for universe are. 2 p.m. AGE-Related MACULAR DEGENERA- the artist on Saturday, October 4 from 3 TION: Diagnosis, treatment, living with to 5 p.m. Story in this issue. AAC vision loss. Macular Degeneration affects over 8 million people in the U.S. It is the THURSDAY REGISTRATIONS 16 most common cause of severe vision loss LET’S TALK ABOUT IT: Between Two in our 50 years & over population. Philip Beginning October 2 THURSDAY Worlds. Join Professor Sally Ann Drucker Ferrone, M.D., Vitreoretinal Specialist, 9 for the second in a series of five discussions WEDNESDAY Long Island Vitreoretinal Consultants and DIRECTOR’S CUT: Film expert John Career Chemistry . See October 22 22 assistant professor at Columbia University, Bosco will screen and discuss Stephen exploring the themes of estrangement and will discuss symptoms, signs and treat- Beginning October 7 Walker’s documentary Young at Heart homecoming. Today: Lost in Translation, ment options. Nikolai Stevenson, president (2007-107 min.), which chronicles the final by Eva Hoffman. Presented in partnership Computer Clean Up & Safety . of the Association for Macular Diseases, weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart with the American Library Association, . See October 7 will discuss living with visioin loss. 7:30 Chorus in Northampton, MA, whose aver- Nextbook and Friends of the Library. Refresh- p.m. HAC Beginning October 14 age age is 81. Their repertoire is another ments will be served. 11 a.m. Defensive Driving . See October 14 surprise: the seniors cover songs by James BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: A discus- Brown, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Nir- sion of Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, vana, Radiohead and OutKast! 7:30 p.m. from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery, facili- tated by Lee Fertitta. 1:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 1 3rd THURSDAYS @ 3: Tiffany and Art 30 BOOK DISCUSSION: A discussion of Ev- Nouveau. Before he became interested in “THE SKULL” (1965-83 min.). A British erything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran glassmaking, Louis Comfort Tiffany was demonologist (Peter Cushing) soon re- Foer, facilitated by Lee Fertitta. 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY a painter. After working at several glass- grets purchasing the skull of the Marquis 10 houses in Brooklyn, in 1879 he formed de Sade. Producer Milton Subotsky also SANDWICHED IN: Cinema Censorship: scripted, from a story by Robert Bloch, for Sex, Gangsters and the Hays Code. Long Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated director Freddie Francis. The supporting before there were PG-13, R and X ratings, American Artists. Tiffany’s leadership and cast includes Christopher Lee, Michael there was the Hays Censorship Code. talent, as well as his father’s money and Gough and Patrick Wymark. 7:30 p.m. From the late 1930s until the 1950s, Wil- connections, led the business to thrive. THURSDAY liam Hays and Joseph Breen controlled This slide-illustrated lecture by Thomas CAREER CHEMISTRY: Is your career still 2 what was seen on the silver screen. Movie Germano provides an introduction to the a good fit? Join career coach Diane Reyn- “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME” exhibit at the Nassau County Museum of (1939-117 min.). Deformed bell-ringer historian, educator and performer Larry olds, M.S. Ed. for a unique workshop. Free Strickler presents an entertaining and en- Art, “Tiffany and the Gilded Age,” which registration begins Thursday, October 2. Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) rescues runs through November 2. 3 p.m. FOL gypsy Esmeralda (Maureen O’Hara) from lightening exploration of films of the 1930s, There is a $25 fee for the MBTI test, pay- the gallows in the second screen version of that were so provocative, they brought out able the evening of the program. No credit FRIDAY the “morality police.” 12:10 p.m. cards. See ad in this issue. 31 Victor Hugo’s novel, directed by William SANDWICHED IN: Things That Go Bump Dieterle from a screenplay by Frank Bruno FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD DOUBLE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB of Long Island In the Night. Think Long Island’s founding and Sonya Levien. 7:30 p.m. FEATURE: In conjunction with this after- meets. 8 p.m. fathers had no time for a little bedlam? noon’s program, we present two pre-Code Think again! Educator-writer-storyteller PORT WRITES: A group of self motivated classics. Three on a Match (1932-64 min.). FRIDAY Janet Emily Demarest has assembled a 17 writers reading and discussing their work, collection of ghostly and ghastly tales from Three young women (Bette Davis, Joan SANDWICHED IN: A White House Tour. facilitated by Michael Chaplan. This group Blondell, Ann Dvorak) renew a childhood Long Island’s checkered past. Join her for The Cothurnus Players (Harriet Baker and meets the fourth Wednesday of every friendship and light three cigarettes from spirited storytelling of spooky legends Barry H. Kaplan) take us on a journey into month. 8 p.m. FRIDAY one match, ignoring the superstition that the lives and times of some of our most featuring witches, pirates, the British oc- 3 the last person to do so will die. Warren prominent presidents and first ladies. cupation, intrigue, murder and mayhem SANDWICHED IN: Prime Time Radio. William, Humphrey Bogart and Glenda These staged readings are accompanied along with a little history, geography and, Join radio personality Herb Norman for a Farrell co-star in Mervyn LeRoy’s drama. by music and images. 12:10 p.m. yes, humor. Not for children. 12:10 p.m. fascinating visit to the enchanted, bygone After a brief intermission, Night Nurse world of prime time radio. Hear recorded WAY OFF BROADWAY: Rosewood and ITALIAN-AMERICAN THEATER: Two (1931-73 min.), in which a private nurse one-act plays by Mario Fratti. Professor excerpts of such classic personalities as Rhythm. We welcome you to experience (Barbara Stanwyck) uncovers a criminal THURSDAY Vito Simone will interview the playwright Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Fred Allen and plot to starve a wealthy woman’s children an eclectic blend of flamenco guitar, cello 23 OLYMPIC SAILING: Join us for an eve- following performances of Sogno Ameri- Fibber McGee and Molly.