Posted at 5:36 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Film on New York impresario Toots Shor at Doris Duke Nov. 2
Advertiser Staff
Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Gleason and other New York icons hung out at Toots Shor's Restaurant — the place to be in 1930s and 40s Manhattan. But Shor's financial ineptitude saw the super saloon keeper fall into irrelevance and he died penniless in 1977. His granddaughter, Kristi Jacobsen, takes an unapologetic, unmistakably authentic portrait of the quinetessentially self-made American man. But Jacobsen's resurrection of her grandfather's hey day is a boozy, smoky joy. New York magazine calls the documentary a "cinematic happy hour."The film screens at the Honolulu Academy of Arts' Doris Duke Theatre Nov. 2-4 at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 6 at 1 p.m.
