Purple Pearl
Santa Fe, N.M.
June 1, 2019
Dear David,
Word has come to Santa Fe about a precious purple pearl that was discovered housed in a clam in Bonac. I suspect the price of a clamming license has skyrocketed as a consequence. I’ll be inspecting my clams more carefully.
“Younger,” Darren Star’s delightful indulgence of a series that started off slowly on TV Land but has built its audience steadily year after year, primarily by word of mouth, is back for its sixth season, beginning Wednesday night.
The director John Landis is best known for his comedies, among them “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Trading Places,” “Three Amigos,” and “The Blues Brothers.” But that’s not why Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan turned to him to select the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s next film series.
A new comedy-drama called “The Prompter” is getting its world premiere now through June 16 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The play might be what one calls a “grower” — that is, a work that is slow to build but keeps gaining momentum until, almost before you realize it, you find yourself in the emotional grip of its two-person cast.
