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Seminars<br />
Tuesday, December 4, 20<strong>18</strong><br />
Rod McDonald presents: “Duke<br />
Ellington, Eddie Cantor<br />
& Jimmy Durante”<br />
7:30 p.m. Imperial Room<br />
In the early 20th century, few performers made<br />
the transition from vaudeville to recordings and<br />
radio better than the Duke Ellington Orchestra,<br />
Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante. Ellington, one of<br />
the foremost composers in the history of jazz, led<br />
one of the longest-running bands in history (and<br />
it’s still going) from the streets of Harlem to the<br />
world, with top musicianship, such swinging hits as<br />
“Satin Doll” and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,”<br />
and complex orchestral music. Cantor and<br />
Durante became America’s most popular entertainers,<br />
introducing “Yes, Sir That’s My Baby” and<br />
“Makin’ Whoopee”, “Make Someone Happy”, “Inka<br />
Dinko Do” and many more historic songs, all with<br />
their iconic characters. Join Rod MacDonald for this<br />
video lecture, with archival footage, research materials<br />
and live performance, exploring the lives<br />
and legacies of three of American music’s greatest<br />
entertainers. Cost is $5 per person.<br />
Thursday, December 6, 20<strong>18</strong><br />
Marlene Solender & Peter Fuchs present:<br />
“Cole Porter: Another Opening<br />
Another Show”<br />
7:30 p.m. Imperial Room<br />
Marlene Solender and Peter Fuchs weave together<br />
the story and the music of the most sophisticated<br />
song writer of our era. You will see why people<br />
would say to Cole Porter "You're the Top" and your<br />
music is "C'est Magnifique". The evening is sure to<br />
be "De'Lovely" so come on out and join us and<br />
“Let's Do It"!! Cost is $5 per person.<br />
Tuesday, January 8, 20<strong>19</strong> – Part I<br />
Tuesday, January 15, 20<strong>19</strong> – Part II<br />
Two Part Lecture Series with Dan Hudak<br />
“When Oscar Gets It Wrong Part 1 & Part 2”<br />
7:30 p.m. Imperial Room<br />
Is Ordinary People better than Raging Bull? Is How<br />
Green Was My Valley better than Citizen Kane?<br />
According to the Oscars, yes! This 2-part lecture<br />
series by film critic and professor<br />
Dan Hudak examines the<br />
politics, voting patterns, and<br />
cultural influences that led the<br />
Academy to overlook movies<br />
we now consider classics. Cost<br />
is $10 per person.<br />
Thursday, January 10, 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Ed Hershey presents: Post War Jewish<br />
America “Hiding in Plain Sight”<br />
7:30 p.m. Imperial Room<br />
In his memoir “The Scorekeeper”, former Newsday<br />
reporter Edward Hershey reflects on Brooklyn roots<br />
and Jewish culture in the <strong>19</strong>50’s and <strong>19</strong>60’s when<br />
his Ocean Parkway neighborhood was “as Jewish<br />
as Ivory soap – 99 and 44/100ths pure”. Up and<br />
down “the Parkway”, which spanned the six miles<br />
between Prospect Park and Brighton Beach, nearly<br />
everyone was Jewish, reflecting a demographic<br />
reality of midcentury New York. Banding together<br />
was one way to counter the limitations and<br />
indignities of bias in employment, housing, education,<br />
and social access. Hershey’s lecture will bring<br />
to life a time now sometimes forgotten but that<br />
shaped his life and that of thousands in his generation.<br />
His presentation will inform some, evoke<br />
nostalgia in others and delight all who are proud<br />
of their Jewish-American heritage. Cost is $5 per<br />
person.<br />
Thursday, January 17, 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Lynda Milito “My <strong>Life</strong> as a Mafia Wife”<br />
7:30 p.m. Imperial Room<br />
When Lynda Lustig, a Jewish 16-year-old high<br />
school dropout met Italian gangster Louie Milito,<br />
she had a taste for adventure and was happy to be<br />
out of her domineering mother’s loveless house.<br />
When they married, Louie was not yet a “made<br />
man” in the powerful Gambino crime family. Over<br />
the years, she was willing to forgive her husband<br />
for everything: his violent rages, his frequent absences,<br />
his shady associates and the blood on his<br />
hands. For 24 years, Lynda Milito remained loyal<br />
to this charming and dangerous criminal, her children’s<br />
father and close friends of crime boss John<br />
Gotti and underboss Sammy “The Bull” Gravano.<br />
But in <strong>19</strong>88, Louie Milito disappeared, murdered by<br />
the very people he always trusted to protect him.<br />
And now, you can share her story live and in<br />
person! Cost is $5 per person.<br />
Tuesday, January 22, 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Ira Epstein presents:<br />
“The Legacy of Joan Rivers”<br />
7:30 p.m. Imperial Room<br />
Known for her acerbic wit and blunt honesty, Joan<br />
Rivers was a remarkable comedian who will be remembered<br />
as the professional who helped shatter<br />
the glass ceiling for women in stand-up. Rivers<br />
knew the power of laughter and committed herself<br />
to crafting a non-stop humor-driven career. “When<br />
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