Hemingway Centennial Celebration
An Artist’s View of Hemingway
Fernando Perez directed this 1990 Cuban feature from a script by Mayda Royero. In 1956 in Havana, a poor high school student (Laura de la Uz) who’s a neighbor of Ernest Hemingway’s dreams of attending college; she reads The Old Man and the Sea and finds herself identifying with its protagonist. With Marta del Rio, Jose Antonio, and Raul Paz. Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake, Oak Park. 6 PM. Free.
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Eight different Oak Park restaurants serve dishes from Craig Boreth’s The Hemingway Cookbook: Cafe Winberie (151 N. Oak Park Ave.), Cucina Paradiso (814 North Blvd.), La Bella Pasteria (109 S. Marion), Marion Street Grill (189 N. Marion), Papaspiros Grecian Taverna (733 Lake), Philander’s (1120 Pleasant), Szechwan Beijing (1107 South Blvd.), and Vivaldi Trattoria (144 S. Oak Park Ave.). For information, call 708-524-7800.
FRIDAY, JULY 16
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