For World AIDS Day
In conjunction with its second annual World AIDS Day observance, Hamptons Pride has teamed up with LTV Studios in Wainscott to present “Philadelphia,” Jonathan Demme’s 1993 film that earned Oscars for Tom Hanks as best actor and Bruce Springsteen, who wrote the title song. It will be shown Sunday at 4 p.m.
The film is about an attorney (Mr. Hanks) who asks a personal injury lawyer (Denzel Washington) to help him sue his former law firm, which fired him after discovering he was gay and that he had AIDS. It also stars Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, and Joanne Woodward.
In addition to the screening, 40 quilts from the National AIDS Memorial will be on display, starting Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and continuing on Monday, when a public ceremony will happen at 5 p.m.
Viewing of the quilts is always free, but tickets to the film are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, and $5 for students 13 and older.
Real or Fake
As an art historian, curator, and former executive director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Helen Harrison is eminently qualified to write not only scholarly works about the New York School, but also murder mysteries set in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.
Canio’s Cultural Cafe will bring Ms. Harrison to Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor to read from “A Willful Corpse,” the fourth and most recent in her Art of Murder Mysteries series, next Thursday at 5 p.m. The story involves a series of paintings up for sale that are attributed to Pollock but that an expert appraiser is convinced are forgeries.
The program is free, but reservations have been recommended by email to [email protected].
