Midmorning Exchange

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 ~ 9:30 – 11:00 AM

NY NATAS Office – 1375 Broadway (between 37th and 38th Streets), 21st floor, Suite 2103

Memory Recap – Part One

Harvey Chertok

Cynthia Larsen Link

Join us for bagels and coffee and listen to Mr. Chertok read a series of his “memories” in the first of which the price of one bagel was two cents. In addition to several memories, Ms. Larsen Link will read “Car Ride” an original short story that happens in a moving car where unpleasant revelations are disclosed to a victim trapped into listening.

PLEASE RSVP VIA PHONE 212-459-3630, ext. 204.

Event produced by Ellen Muir.

FILM SCREENING: THE INTERN

Members and one guest only are invited to the first preview screening of The Intern from Warner Bros. Pictures. Seating is limited.

This invitation is non-transferable.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, a Waverly Films Production, a Nancy Meyers Film, “The Intern” is scheduled for release on September 25, 2015, it will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Please send an email to Phyllis Bishop at pbscreenings@gmail.com with the following information: Your Membership Card Number and state if you are coming alone or bringing one guest.  You must receive and answer a response from Phyllis, to attend these screenings. 

Screening Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Arrival Time:  6:30 p.m. for 7:30 p.m. screening

Cinema: Time Warner Screening Room

Address: 1 Time Warner Center 

Enter on W. 58th Street  between 8th and 9th Avenue

Check in: with Phyllis Bishop.

NOTE: By attending this screening you agree to hold all print, online, radio and television reviews until the film’s release date. This includes posting reactions/reviews to Twitter, Facebook and blog postings.  This screening will be monitored for unauthorized recording. By attending this screening, you consent to surveillance by security personnel. By attending, you agree not to bring any recording device (including certain types of mobile devices, wearable computer devices such as Google Glass, into the theater. By attending, you also consent to physical search of your belongings and person for recording devices. If you attempt to enter with a recording device, you will be denied admission. If you attempt to use a recording device, you consent to your immediate removal from the theater and forfeiture of the device and its contents. Unauthorized recordings will be reported to law enforcement and may subject you to criminal and civil liability.

Synopsis: Robert DeNiro stars as Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Hathaway).  The film’s multi-generational cast also features Rene Russo (“Thor”), Anders Holm (“Workaholics”), Andrew Rannells (“Girls”), Adam Devine.

Stars: Academy Award winners Robert DeNiro (“Raging Bull,” “Silver Linings Playbook”) and Anne Hathaway (“Les Misérables,” “The Devil Wears Prada”) star together in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Intern.”

The film’s multi-generational cast also features Rene Russo (“Thor”), Anders Holm (“Workaholics”), Andrew Rannells (“Girls”), Adam Devine (“Pitch Perfect”), Celia Weston (“No Reservations”), Nat Wolff (“The Fault in Our Stars”), Linda Lavin (“Wanderlust”), Zack Pearlman (“The Inbetweeners”), newcomer Jason Orley, and Christina Scherer (“Living with Uncle Charlie”).

Director:  Oscar-nominated and award-winning filmmaker Nancy Meyers (“It’s Complicated,” “Something’s Gotta Give,” “Private Benjamin”) is directing the dramatic comedy from her own screenplay.

Producer: Nancy Meyers also produced the film, with Suzanne Farwell.  Celia Costas served as executive producer. Meyers’ behind-the-scenes creative team is headed by Oscar-nominated director of photography Stephen Goldblatt (“The Prince of Tides,” “The Help”), Oscar-nominated production designer Kristi Zea (“Revolutionary Road,” “GoodFellas,” “Tower Heist”), Oscar-nominated film editor Robert Leighton (“A Few Good Men,” “When Harry Met Sally”) and costume designer Jacqueline Demeterio (“The Other Woman,” “The Big C”).  The music is by Theodore Shapiro (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” “The Devil Wears Prada”).

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA):  “The Intern” has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some suggestive content and brief strong language.

Release Date: September 25th 2015.

Discounted Offer to NEW COUNTRY

From the Creator of Mike & Molly & Executive Producer of Two and a half Men

ABOUT MARK ROBERTS, THE PLAYWRIGHT

Following a career as an actor, stand-up comedian, and writer, Mark Roberts is set to premiere New Country, his eighth play, at the Cherry Lane Theatre on May 16 – June 20.  Best known for his TV work on Two and a Half Men and Mike & Molly, Roberts trained as an actor and began his theater career in 1982 outside Chicago, where he first worked with director David Harwell.

SYNOPSIS

Country music star Justin Spears has the world on its knees.  He’s a good ole bad boy, a thankless… shameless…phony…user…you get the idea, that’s tying the knot tomorrow; but tonight he’s tying one on. He’s going to party hearty with his entourage of ruthless, calculating managers, faux fans and friends, his favorite pig-farming uncle and a plastic model.  So how does this rowdy, raucous, rodeo go so wrong…so fast?  

Welcome to the NEW COUNTRY, where the hits just keep on comin’.  Where the phoniness is phoned in and the egos, reality and people are full of hot air – sometimes literally.  When the chickens come home to roost, will Justin come out on top, or will his career go pop?

Discount Offer: $15.00 (Reg. $35.00)

USE CODE: WANDA15

Click here or visit: NewCountryThePlay.com

Performance Schedule

Preview Performance: May 16, 17, 19 at 7pm

Opening: May 20 at 7pm

Closing: June 20

Regular Performances: Tue-Sat 7pm, Sat-Sun 3pm

Ticket Information

Cherry Lane Theatre

38 Commerce Street, NYC

1 train to Christopher Street or A, B, C, D, E, F, M to West 4^th

For more info, visit www.newcountrytheplay.com.

NEW COUNTRY just opened and received some nice reviews: http://www.stageandcinema.com/2015/05/20/new-country/

PIANO CONCERT FREE OF CHARGE FOR NY NATAS MEMBERS!

IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE TO INVITE YOU TO THE RECITAL KENN GARTNER, PIANIST, SHALL GIVE AT MERKIN HALL

Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Time: 8:00 PM

Location: Merkin Hall, 129 West 67 Street New York City, New York

The Program

Sonata in C minor, Op. 13  (Grand Sonate pathetique) - Ludwig van Beethoven                                                            

Konzertstück in F (Franz Liszt paraphrase)  - Carl Maria von Weber                                          

Research suggests this may be the first performance in Western Hemisphere

Four Nocturnes

Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 (1832)  - Frederick Chopin Notturno

(Liebestraum) No. 3 (1848) - Franz Liszt

Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 (1894) - Alexander Skriabin

Notturno (c. 1898)  - Ottorino Respighi

Tiger (1930) - Henry Cowell

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 (1851) - Franz Liszt

This concert is organized by K. Z. PURZYCKI, NATAS member,in association with Squillit Communications for the Merkin Hall.

Your NATAS membership card allows for ONE free ticket.

All guests of members will be charged the full amount.

Please show your membership card at the box office. Student, senior, and UFT member discounts are available.  

Box office number: 1-212-501-3330.