Free Programs For Seniors

WEDNESDAYS 2:30PM -5PM

1. La BOHEME Wednesday MARCH 2^ND

Starring: Jose Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Richard Stilwell and Renata Scotto.

2. PAGLIACCI Wednesday MARCH 9^TH

By: Ruggiero Leoncalvo.

Starring: Lucianno Pavarotti and Teresa Stratas.

3. THE ELIXER DA AMORE Wednesday MARCH 16TH

By: Gaetano Donizetti

Starring: Lucianno Pavarotti

4. LA TRAVIATA Wednesday MARCH 23^rd

By Giuseppe Verdi.

Starring: Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas.

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MUSICAL LOVERS SERIES SELECTIONS TO DATE.
MUSICALS ARE ADDED UPON REQUEST:

AUDREY HEPBURN/REX HARRISON......MY FAIR LADY
BARBARA STREISAND .............................FUNNY GIRL
BING CROSBY.............................................GOING MY WAY
BING CROSBY.............................................HOLIDAY INN
BING CROSBY, GRACE KELLY,
          FRANK SINATRA..............................HIGH SOCIETY
DEBORAH KERR/YUL BRENNER............THE KING AND I
DORIS DAY, JAMES CAGNEY...................LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
FRANK SINATRA/MARLON BRANDO....GUYS AND DOLLS
FRANK SINATRA/DORIS DAY .................YOUNG AT HEART
FRANK SINATRA/GENE KELLY..............ANCHORS AWAY
FRANK SINATRA/RITA HAYWORTH......PAL JOEY
FRED ASTAIRE/AUDREY HEPBURN.......FUNNY FACE
GENE KELLY/LESLIE CARON ................AMERICAN IN PARIS
GENE KELLY/CYD CHARISSE ................BRIGADOON
GENE KELLY/FRANK SINATRA..............ON THE TOWN
GENE KELLY/DONALD OCONNER.........SINGING IN THE RAIN
GERARD BUTLER ......................................PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
GORDON MACRAE/SHIRLEY JONES......CAROUSEL
GORDON MACRAE/SHIRLEY JONES......OKLAHOMA
JUDY GARLAND/GENE KELLY................FOR ME AND MY GAL
JUDY GARLAND/VAN JOHNSON.IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME
JUDY GARLAND..........................................MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
LARRY PARKS.............................................THE AL JOLSON STORY
LESLIE CARON, MAURICE CHEVALIER.GIGI
RICHARDHARRIS........................................CAMELOT
TOPAL ..........................................................FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

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CLASSICAL MOVIE LOVERS SERIES SELECTIONS TO DATE.
MOVIES ARE ADDED UPON REQUEST:

INGRID BERGMAN...............................GASLIGHT
     CHARLES BOYER
     JOSEPH COTTEN
BETTE DAVIS .......................................THE LETTER
BETTE DAVIS/ANNE BAXTER ..........ALL ABOUT EVE
BETTE DAVIS.........................................DARK VICTORY
BETTE DAVIS/H. FONDA ....................JEZEBEL
BETTE DAVIS/CLAUDE RAINS...........MR. SKEFFINGTON
BETTE DAVIS/HENRIED .....................NOW VOYAGER
BETTE DAVIS/STERLING HAYDEN...THE STAR
BOGART/BACALL ...............................CASABLANCA
BOGART/BACALL ...............................DARK PASSAGE
BOGART/BACALL ...............................KEY LARGO
BOGART/BACALL ...............................THE BIG SLEEP
BOGART/BACALL ...............................TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
BOGART/GLORIA GRAHAME ...........IN A LONELY PLACE
BOGART/HOWARD/BETTE DAVIS ...PETRIFIED FOREST
BOGART/HUSTON/ ..............................TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE
CAGNEY,OBRIEN/BOGART ...............ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
CAGNEY/HARLOW ..............................PUBLIC ENEMY
CAGNEY/MAYO ...................................WHITE HEAT
CHER/NICHOLAS CAGE .....................MOONSTRUCK
EDWARD G ROBINSON ......................ALL MY SONS
EDWARD G ROBINSON ......................DOUBLE INDEMNITY
EDWARD G ROBINSON ......................HOUSE OF STRANGERS
EDWARD G ROBINSON ......................LITTLE CAESAR
JOAN CRAWFORD................................HUMORESQUE
     JOHN GARFLEID
JOAN CRAWFORD................................MILDRED PIERCE
JOAN CRAWFORD................................POSSESED
     VAN HEFLIN
JOAN CRAWFORD................................THE DAMNED DON'T CRY
JOAN CRAWFORD................................THE WOMEN
    
GEORGE RAFT.......................................THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT
     ANN SHERIDAN
     IDA LUPINO
     HUMPHREY BOGART
JAMES CAGNEY ..................................ROARING TWENTIES
JUNE ALLYSON
     PETER LAWFORD
     MARGARET OBRIEN
     ELIZABETH TAYLOR.....................LITTLE WOMEN
MYRNA LOY/F. MARCH ....................BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
RONALD COLEMAN ...........................LOST HORIZONS
TYRONE POWER/DIETRICH ......WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

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DRAMA LOVERS SERIES

          The Drama Lovers Series is not for the faint of heart. The authors are some of the best dramatic authors of our time: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Faulkner and Eugene O’Neill.

          The series is American drama at its best and some of the plays can only be described as intense, powerful, sad and sometimes tragic.

          If you love drama, you’ll love the Drama Lovers Series.

PAUL NEWMAN......................... CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
BURL IVES ..................................BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 108 MIN

          This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (Paul Newman) and Gooper (Jack Carson). He has cancer, but a doctor has deliberately and falsely declared it in remission. Seemingly perfect son Gooper and his wife Mae (Madeleine Sherwood) have several children and are anxiously expecting to inherit Daddy's millions. By contrast, Big Daddy's "favorite," Brick, is a has-been football star who's taken to drinking his days away since the suicide of his "best friend" a year earlier. He resents his wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), because he believes that she had an affair with his deceased friend. As a result, he refuses to sleep with her although she remains devoted to him. Since Brick and Maggie have failed to produce any grandchildren, Big Daddy is inclined to leave his estate to Gooper, but Maggie attempts to prevent that by telling him that she is pregnant. Big Daddy knows better, yet he recognizes that Maggie loves Brick so much that she would be willing to do anything for him. Although Brick is self-destructive and resentful, unable to come to terms with his losses, it takes Big Daddy's recognition of his own mortality to make Brick change his perspective. This intelligently written and acted film covers such topics as infertility, adultery, and alcoholism that were still considered taboo in the 1950's. Newman brings depth and feeling to the role as Brick, while Taylor succeeds brilliantly in portraying Maggie as a passionate and understanding woman.

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MARLON BRANDO........ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 125 MIN
VIVIEN LEIGH ................BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
KIM HUNTER
KARL MALDEN

          Marlon Brando reprised his role as Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan's magnificent screen version of Tennessee Williams's great American play, A Streetcar Named Desire, re-creating on film the standard-setting performance that wowed Broadway audiences. As the virile, blue-collar brute Stanley, Brando's sensuality takes the breath away. And Vivian Leigh is heartbreaking in her Oscar-winning portrayal of Blanche Dubois, a ravaged Southern belle clinging to faded notions of Southern gentility until her brother-in-law shatters her delusions forever. Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, both of whom appeared in the stage version, also won Oscars for their superb supporting performances. Although filmed entirely on sets, no movie has ever captured the sultry, decaying atmosphere of New Orleans's French Quarter as potently as this classic (it also won the 1951 Oscar for Art Direction).

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KATHERINE HEPBURN..... THE GLASS MANAGERIE........ 105 MIN
SAM WATERSTON.............. BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
MICHAEL MORIARITY
JOANNA MILES

          Previously filmed in 1950, Tennessee Williams' 1944 Broadway hit The Glass Menagerie was remade for television in 1973. Four time Oscar Winner, Katharine Hepburn is Amanda Wingfield, an overbearing mother whose preoccupation with her past as a southern belle and unrealistic dreams for her children, threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter (Joanna Miles) and her aspiring writer son (Sam Waterson). The play is set in a Depression-era St. Louis tenement. Sam Waterston narrates the story as Amanda's idealistic son Tom, who'd give anything to escape his mother's fantasy world. Tom's withdrawn, clubfooted sister Laura, who maintains the glass menagerie of the title, is portrayed by Joanna Miles, while Michael Moriarity plays the "Gentleman Caller," whose presence disrupts the fragile existence of the Wingfield family unit.

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PAUL NEWMAN.............. THE LONG HOT SUMMER......... 115 MIN
JOANNA WOODWARD....BY WILLIAM FAULKNER
ANTHONY FRANCIOSA

          William Faulkner is regarded as one of America's greatest writers and The Long Hot Summer is often regarded as one of the best films based on his work. Ben Quick (Paul Newman), a sullen but self-confident drifter, arrives in a small Mississippi town where his father had a bad reputation as a firebug. Will Varner (Orson Welles), the town's patriarch, still holds a grudge against Quick's dad, and when the young man decides to stay in town and sharecrop on Varner's land, Will goes out of his way to make his life difficult. However, Will develops a grudging respect for Quick's guts and determination, and he wishes that his weak-willed son Jody (Anthony Franciosa) could be more like him; Jody's wife Eula (Lee Remick) happens to agree. In time, Will gets the idea that Quick might be a good match for his daughter Clara (Joanne Woodward) and a better choice to take over his business dealings than Jody. However, neither Clara nor Quick care to be told what to do, and besides, Clara already has a beau -- though Alan Stewart (Richard Anderson) is even more of a milquetoast than Jody and is led by the nose by his mother. However, sparks begin to fly between Clara and Quick, and when Jody fears he may lose his place as heir of Will's estate, he takes drastic action, trapping his father in a barn, setting it on fire, and planting evidence that would suggest that the blaze was Quick's doing. The Long, Hot Summer was the first film that Newman and Woodward made together, and they got married the same year.

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DUSTIN HOFFMAN.......... DEATH OF A SALESMAN.......... 136 MIN
CHARLES DURNING....... BY ARTHUR MILLER
STEPHAN LANG
JOHN MALKOVITCH

          This is a 1966 production of Arthur Miller's classic American play, Death of a Salesman. Dustin Hoffman stars as Willy Loman, the everyman who is suddenly faced with the glaring reality that he is past his prime and has begun living in a self-created fantasy world in which he is not obsolete. The performance also features Stephan Lang as Happy Loman and John Malkovitch as Biff Loman.

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AUDREY HEPBURN...........THE CHILDREN’S HOUR..... 108 MIN
SHIRLEY MacLAINE..........BY LILLIAN HELLMAN
JAMES GARDNER

          A child’s lie has life-shattering consequences in this daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s celebrated play. Karen (Hepburn) and Martha (MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander and accuses her teachers of questionable behavior. Soon the scandalous gossip engulfs the school’s community, with repercussions that are swift, crushing and tragic.

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JASON ROBARDS..........THE ICEMAN COMETH....... 210 MINUTES
MYRON MCCORMICK.. BY EUGENE O’NEILL
ROBERT REDFORD

          Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play, The Iceman Cometh, has been described by one theater historian as "a strikingly powerful, if discursive, study of man's desperate need for illusions." The story is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's dingy waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Hope's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about, and the wasted lives they wound up with. As the central character Hickey, (Jason Robards) is a loser who's convinced himself that he's a winner.

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Estate Planning Series Offered at Eastside Senior Center and Acacia Village:
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NURSING HOME COSTS

Utica Attorney D. Victor Pellegrino Esq.

will present a FREE SEMINAR on