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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The 1944 melodrama, “Gaslight,” starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotten, screens at the Soper Reese Theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 1 and 6 p.m.
Entry to the film is by donation.
When top-flight stars join forces in performing a beautifully directed psychological thriller, the effect is strong, so strong that this film led to the coinage of a new word: "gaslighting," which describes behavior that seeks to manipulate other people’s fears in order to undermine their sanity.
Filmed in black and white, set in foggy Victorian England, and directed by George Cukor, this dark, Hitchcock-like mystery brought Bergman her first Best Actress Oscar.
It also features an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her first film role.
The movie is sponsored by Tomkins Tax Consultants. Rated PG. Run time is 1 hour and 54 minutes.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, 707-263-0577, www.soperreesetheatre.com.
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Minnesota has many fine writers, gathered together by a deep and trusting affection for one another.
Freya Manfred has been an important part of that community for her entire life, having been brought up at the side of her father, Frederick Manfred, a master novelist of the American West.
Here's a poem from Freya's new book from Red Dragonfly Press, “Loon In Late November Water.”
Old Friends
Old friends are a steady spring rain,
or late summer sunshine edging into fall,
or frosted leaves along a snowy path—
a voice for all seasons saying, I know you.
The older I grow, the more I fear I'll lose my old friends,
as if too many years have scrolled by
since the day we sprang forth, seeking each other.
Old friend, I knew you before we met.
I saw you at the window of my soul—
I heard you in the steady millstone of my heart
grinding grain for our daily bread.
You are sedimentary, rock-solid cousin earth,
where I stand firmly, astonished by your grace and truth.
And gratitude comes to me and says:
"Tell me anything and I will listen.
Ask me anything, and I will answer you."
We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2018 by Freya Manfred, "Old Friends," from Loon In Late November Water, (Red Dragonfly Press, 2018). Poem reprinted by permission of Freya Manfred and the publisher. Introduction copyright @2019 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
