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There was a press conference at Gallagher's Steak House as former owner Marlene Brody handed over the reins and keys to the new owner Dean Poll. This wonderful restaurant is an 85-year-old New York landmark and Dean Poll is to be congratulated for saving it from closing. Also, when you visit, be sure to look at three of my photographs of celebrities (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Richard Harris, Anthony Quinn, Stacy Keath, Liam Neeson and Neil Jordan) on the front wall as you enter. Paul Shaffer and Merle Debuskey were among the attendees.
Thank goodness we have the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players to give us our yearly dose of marvelous operettas. The Mikado was a delight.
01-05-13
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Dean
Poll.
Marlene
Brody
as
former
owner
Marlene
Brody
turns
over
the
reins
and
keys
to
the
new
owner
Dean
Poll
at a
press
conference
at
Gallagher's
Steak
House.
228
West
52nd
St.
Friday
afternoon
01-04-13
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WIt was, as always, well sung, humorous, and the bubbling music was directed by the splendid conductor, Albert Bergeret. The entire cast received a well deserved, vociferous applause, but mention must be made of a sonorous Quinto Ott in the title role and a very funny David Macaluso as Ko_Ko. The audience left extremely satisfied.
Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting See It in 70MM! Dec 21-Jan1. Ryan's Daughter, by David Lean, UK, 1970, is a spectacular, gloriously filmed wide screen feature, that take place during World War I, in a small Irish village, where the occupying British troops are hated. A schoolmaster's wife (Sarah Miles) begins an adulterous affair with a shell shocked English major, leading to tragic consequences. It is slow moving, and over long, but maintain's the viewer's interest to the end. The cast includes wonderful actors like John Mills (he won an Oscar as supporting actor), Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard and Leo McKern.
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment, by Konrad Wolf, East Germany/USSR/Bulgaria/Yugoslavia, 1971, is one of the best films about a magnificent painter that I have ever seen. Donastas Banionis is brilliant as he interprets the Spanish court painter as a middle aged man, losing his hearing and turning to paint horrific pictures of demons and monsters. We see the creation of many of his major masterpieces from portraits to the scandalous nude maja. It is beautifully photographed and the film is a tribute to one of Spain's great painters.
MoMA is presenting Dickens on Film December 20-Jan 3. David Copperfield, by George Cukor, Great Britain, 1935, is probably one of the finest films based on a Dickens' novel. It has an outstanding cast, with an excellent Freddie Bartholomew in the title role as a child and an equally good Frank Lawton in the same role as a young man. Among the well known actors in the cast are W. C. Fields, Basil Rathbone, Roland Young, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O' Sullivan. It is a delight from beginning to end. MoMA has given New York a rare treat with this selection of superb films of Dickens' work.
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