Meet Me At The Movies Friday, March 26th at Sherwood Music School 1312 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Some Like it Hot - Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
Wrap Party - to be announcedEnjoy a delicious Dinner catered especially for us. Or just come for great conversation and fun with friends and neighbors.* Dinner is not required.
RSVP Requiredfor Movie and/or Dinner Pay at the Door
SOMELIKE IT HOT
Considered one of the
greatest movie comedies of
all time, director Billy
Wilder's Some Like it Hot,
is as funny today as
when it premiered on
March 29, 1959.
Marilyn Monroe and
her "bosom" companions
The action starts in
Chicago, when musicians,
Joe and Jerry (Tony
Curtis and Jack Lemmon)
unwittingly become
witnesses to the St.
Valentine’s Day massacre
of 1929. To escape
“Spats” Columbo and
his gang, Joe and Jerry disguise themselves
as women and join an
all-girl band traveling by train to Florida.
Masquerading as Josephine
and Daphne, Curtis and Lemmon somehow fool
bandleader Sweet Sue and
band-manager Beinstock,
who are desperate to
round out their jazz band.
Underneath the sheltering
Palms - On the train ride
to Florida, Josephine and
Daphne meet Sugar Kane
Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe).
Things get complicated
when Joe-Josephine starts
to fall in love with her.
With amazing energy and
dexterity, Joe-Josephine
manages to assume the
identity of Junior,
heir to the Shell Oil
fortune, in order to woo
Sugar and then switches
back to play with Sweet
Sue and Her Society Syncopaters, to hide out
from the Columbo gang.
All this switching back and forth makes Daphne’s
(Lemmon’s) head spin.
But Daphne has her own problems. The rich,
much-married Osgood
Fielding III finds Daphne irresistible and proposes.
Meet Me At The Movies Please join us as our monthly PDNA theater event continues with Some Like it Hot. "Meet Me at the Movies" introduces American film classics to a modern audience. Discover the stories and history behind some of the most famous films ever made and find out which classics influenced the careers of filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, James Carmeron and Steven Spielberg. Date: Friday, March 26th, 2010 Showtime: 6:30pm Movie Tickets: $5.00 per person at door Location: Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College Chicago, Recital Hall
1312 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, Il 60605
Wrap Party after the Movie Join us afterward for a special "Wrap Party" Dinner at our PDNA Partner restaurant To be announced. Soak up the atmosphere and relax and mingle with friends and neighbors while you enjoy a wonderful dinner catered just for us by the chef
Wrap Party Time: 8:45pm Wrap Party Tickets: $15.00 per person at door
includes DINNER and non alcoholic drinks Wrap Party Location: To be announced Menu:To be announced Print Event Flyer
RSVP Required for Movie and/or Dinner
Pay for tickets at the door
(cash or check made out to "PDNA" only) If you are unable to join us for the Movie, you are still welcome to join us at the restaurant for Dinner or even just for drinks. The Wrap Party is always loads of fun. So come out and join us for cocktails and great conversation with frineds and neighbors. * Dinner Optional.Full bar Available.RSVP not required if you want to come socialize. Stephen Reginald is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant. He has worked at various positions within the publishing industry for over 25 years. Most recently he was executive editor for McGraw-Hill's The Learning Group Division. Raised by parents who grew up during the Great Depression, Stephen was fascinated by their tales of spending whole Saturday afternoons at the movies. These tales and watching the films that his mother and father grew up with became the genesis for his life-long love affair with the movies. An amateur student of film, Stephen is a self-taught movie historian, with special interest in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Preston Sturges, and Otto Preminger, among others. Stephen is currently teaching “Carole Lombard: The Divine Screwball” at Facets Film School in Chicago
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Announcing our book for March... The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel
Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and
Annie Barrows
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a
letter from a stranger, a founding member of
the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of
the island of Guernsey during the German
occupation, and of a society as
extraordinary as its name.
“A book-lover’s delight, an implicit and sometimes explicit paean to all things literary.”
– Chicago Sun-Times
“A jewel…Poignant and keenly observed, Guernsey is a small masterpiece about love, war and the immeasurable sustenance to be found in good books and good friends.” – People Our March book discussion of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by author May An Shaffer will be held on the following dates:
Evening option: Thursday, March 25th at 7:00pm Daytime option: Wednesday, March 31st at 10:00am
Meeting Location: Historic Keith House (1900 S. Prairie Avenue)
For more info or to RSVP for our February BookSpeak discussion dates, contact Jackie Walker: Email: JAX6014@aol.com or call 813 230-2153.