The Town Police Benevolent Association squad had high hopes going into the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball league final with the pennant-winner — and defending playoff champion — East End Land Planning, but the P.B.A.’s forward movement was arrested in the end.

Leif Hope has always painted his Artists team as devil-may-care when it comes to winning and losing and the Writers as self-loathing loners obsessed with winning, and so, in the end, at the 74th meeting of the rivals at East Hampton’s Herrick Park Saturday afternoon, all went according to form as the Writers, who had trailed 18-2 — yes, 18-2 — entering the bottom of the ninth inning, wound up winning in storybook fashion 19-18.

There's no Montauk Project biopic -- yet, anyway -- but it's safe to say that the festival circuit is within its reach, and they're making all the right moves to get there.

"Indian Summer," Bay Street Theater's intern-run show, is a romantic comedy directed by Cameron King. Her father, Don Roy King, an acclaimed television director, has come out of retirement to play the role of the lead actor's grandfather, his first acting gig in 53 years.