“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s film about Leonard Bernstein's life and marriage, with Mr. Cooper in the title role, was well received at the Hamptons International Film Festival’s screening, after which Bernstein’s children expressed their admiration for the film.
There’s a story to “Now and Then,” the Beatles’ final song, and it involves a decades-old cassette recording by John Lennon, the use of advanced technology to produce a clear Lennon vocal, and the efforts of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the late George Harrison.
The filmmaker Williams Cole talks about two current projects, Barbara Kopple’s documentary “Gumbo Coalition,” which he co-produced, and “Rebel Wife,” a work in progress about his great-grandmother, an Irish revolutionary.
Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy will be at the Canoe Place Inn to talk with Chris Cuomo about hip-hop’s 50-year rise to the world stage.
