Friends and cinephiles gathered on Saturday evening at The Chatham Bookstore to hear Peter Biskind read from his new book, Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, an authorized (the subject's attorney's posturing notwithstanding) biography. Biskind's first selection illustrates why Beatty is worthy of the serious consideration as a filmmaker. The second, and all of the hilarious off-the-cuff anecdotes that followed, show just how infuriatingly manipulative the actor/producer/director is, toward no one more than his biographer. Asked his favorite moment in the five-year process of writing the book, Biskind replied, "When it was done."
Ross Levi, Peter Biskind, Sesame Campbell, and Sheila Sable
Writers Barbara Weisberg, Roselle Chartock, and David Black; Clellie Lynch and Rob McKeever
Calliope Nicholas; Dr. Ilze Butners, graphic novel author/illustrator Barbara Slate and Evalds Butners
Jan Moseman and Mary Busch; Jerry Berger and author Elizabeth Hess, Biskind's wife.
Joanna Peters and James Raimes; Chatham Wines & Liquor's owner Karen Kazmar and Spencertown Academy Executive Director Mary Anne Lee
Author Ruth Reichl and Ann Raimes; author Wesley Brown and architect Ben Puccio
Children's book author and illustrator Emily McCully and Nation Magazine Editor and Publisher (retired) Victor Navasky; Clellie Lynch and Danny Lynch
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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