Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Bringing Up Baby

July 1, 2011

7 P.M.

Love runs wild for a hapless scientist and an unstoppable heiress in Howard Hawke's classic screwball comedy that ranks high on the American Film Institute's list of the funniest Hollywood films ever made. With her eye on paleontologist David (Cary Grant), heiress Susan (Katharine Hepburn) lures him to her home. But the hilarity begins when Susan's dog steals David's prize dinosaur bone and her pet leopard, Baby, is mistaken for a zoo escapee.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Friday Night Film Series

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

June 24, 2011
7:00 P.M.

On a serene New England campus, emasculated professor (Richard Burton) and his rancorous wife, Martha, (Elizabeth Taylor), turn an evening of cocktails into an unrelenting onslaught of wrenching disclosures and bellowed epithets. Soon, the couple's guests--junior professor Nick (George Segal) and his wife, Honey (Sandy Dennis)--get sucked into the vortex of the warring duo's unbounded fury. Taylor won an Oscar for her role--as did Sandy Dennis. The film won 5 Oscars in all.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Charcoal Grill Raffle - $100 value!

The Friends of the Thomaston Library
and
Lowes of Thomaston

are partnering in a summer fundraiser for the Thomaston Library. From now until August 10th, you can buy a ticket to enter our raffle - the winner will receive this Char-Broil Grill, a $100 value. Each raffle ticket costs $5.

The winner will be announced during the August 10th Authors and Artists Among Us lecture. To enter the raffle, purchase a raffle ticket at the library or from a member of the Friends of the Library. Tickets will be on sale at the Library's 4th of July book sale and during each lecture in the Authors and Artists Among Us series (beginning July 6th).

This raffle is made possible by a generous donation from Lowes of Thomaston. For more information, call the library at 354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series

The Friends of the Thomaston Library present:


Suddenly, Last Summer

Friday, June 17th

7:00 PM

Room 208, Thomaston Academy Building


In Tennessee Williams's tale of sexual repression set in 1937 New Orleans, rich widow Mrs. Venable (Katharine Hepburn) is distraught over the death of her son Sebastian during his vacation to Europe, where the two had traveled together every summer. This time, Sebastian had taken his cousin Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor), who appeared to go mad the day sebastian died. Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) is called in to assess her mental state, and at Mrs. Venable's urging, perform a lobotomy on Catherine . . .


Friday Night Films are presented free of charge but donations are gratefully accepted. The library and bookstore will be open prior to the screening of the film. The Thomaston Academy building is handicapped accessable from the parking lot entrance. For more information, call the library at 354-2453.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Friday Night Film Series

A Place in the Sun

June 10, 2011

7:00 P.M.

Dirt-poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) lands himself a factory job thanks to a well-to-do uncle's largess and has a tryst with co-worker Alice (Shelley Winters) to combat his loneliness. But he forgets the uncultured Alice when he becomes smitten with a stunning socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Alice can't forget George, however, because she's expecting his baby. Their dilemma sets off a course of events that can only end in tragedy.