Guild Hall Will Present Cultural Icons and Cronuts This Week
Bill Boggs, a four-time Emmy Award-winning television host, will share stories about his encounters with Frank Sinatra and screen highlights from his televised interview with the singer — the longest of Sinatra’s career — tonight at 8 at Guild Hall.
“Memories of Sinatra” will also include clips of the “Chairman of the Board” performing at the peak of his powers and a special appearance by Brian Johnston, a freelance trombone player born and raised in East Hampton and now studying at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. Tickets range in price from $20 to $40, $18 to $38 for members.
Dominique Ansel of the eponymous New York City bakery will not be giving out his Cronut recipe, but Cronut holes will be on the menu Sunday morning at 11 at Guild Hall when the creator of the doughnut-croissant hybrid will be the guest of “Stirring the Pot: Conversations With Culinary Celebrities.” Florence Fabricant, a food writer for The New York Times, will interview Mr. Ansel about his pre-Cronut career, including six years as pastry chef at Daniel, and his various other culinary inventions. Tickets are $15, $13 for members, and $75 and $50 for a pre-talk reception.
Also on Sunday, at 3 p.m., Clare Bell, the exhibition support manager of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, will lead a free gallery tour of the current show, “Roy Lichtenstein: Between Sea and Sky.” In addition to managing the exhibition, Ms. Bell wrote the essay “Beautiful Kitsch: Lichtenstein’s Seascapes, 1964-1970” for the show’s catalog.
A week that began with memories of Frank Sinatra will end Wednesday evening at 8 with “Bob Hope: One Night With the Entertainer of the Century,” a program hosted by Dick Cavett, the writer, former talk show host, and Montauk resident, and Richard Zoglin, the author of “Hope: Entertainer of the Century,” which was published to great acclaim in November. Tickets range from $20, or $18 for members, to $40 and $38.
Two other Guild Hall programs, the SummerDocs screening of “Peace Officer” and “Joy Behar: Me, My Mouth & I,” are covered elsewhere in this section.