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Black Orchid Weekend
December 4, 5, 6 2009

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Highlights of the Festivities

Slide Show of the Events
Read the Blog from Linda Landrigan, Editor in Chief, Alfred Hit chcock Mystery Magazine
Book Discussion
The Assembly
The Banquet
The Brunch

Pete' Tavern Irving Place

Book Discussion

Date/Time: Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 / 6:30 p.m.
Location: Pete's Tavern (corner of Irving Place & E. 18th St., NYC)
Description: Buffet dinner & open beer/wine bar, Book Discussion featuring Prisoner's Base (1952), with the New York City Premiere of the overseas version (with letterbox format and missing minutes) of the A&E television episode. Moderator will be Werowance Emeritus, Jonathan Levine.

See the handout for Prisoner's Base Missing Minutes
(Thank you: Juelie, Debby, & Tina!)

The Assembly

Date/Time: Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 / 2:00 p.m.
Location: Hotel Jolly Madison Towers (Madison Ave. & E. 38th St.)
Moderator: Ettagale Blauer
Program:

Gil Alba (Alba Investigations, 914 621 4331) and Tom Nerney, (Nerney Investigative Consultants, Inc.,
917-846-7355), both former NYPD detectives from the Major Case Squad, provided a lesson on how to debrief a witness and notes on some very interesting cases.
Jonathan Levine, Werowance Emeritus, presented a wide range of information on Nero Wolfe's diet, exercise regimen, and metabolism.
Coffee Break and Swap & Shop provided with Wolfe books & Wolfean-themed merchandise for sale.
Ira Matetsky, Werowance, surprised us with recently discovered "different endings" of some novellas -- from their magazine printing to their Viking book printing Mr. Stout made changes! Thanks to Ed Price for a first-hand look at the antique magazines!
George Amato, Director, American Museum of Natural History/Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, provided data on everything you ever wanted to know about one of the most lethal pit-vipers on the planet, the Fer-de-Lance -- AND he was interesting!

The Black Orchid Banquet

Date/Time: Saturday / Dec. 6, 2009 6:30 p.m.
Location: Hotel Jolly Madison Towers
Program:

Dinner based upon recipes inspired by The Nero Wolfe Cookbook and the Corpus
-- SEE THE MENU
Guest speakers, Stanley Donen & Elaine May
Presentation of The Nero Award to Joseph Teller for THE TENTH CASE
Presentation of The Black Orchid Novella Award to Steve Liskow for "The Strangle Hold." The award is presented jointly by the Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine to celebrate the Novella format popularized by Rex Stout
Toasts to Mr. Stout, Mr. Wolfe, Archie, Fritz, and, this year's special toast, to Lily Rowen, followed by the surprise visit by Lon Cohen & Lily herself. Jane Cleland and Larry Light reprise their Bouchercon 2009 depiction of Lon interviewing Lily -- asking a number of intriguing questions and receiving candid answers
Song Parodies (oh, my!)
The confounding and in genius quiz from our interim Quiz Master, Ira Matetsky

Video of the original depiction of
Lon Cohen interviewing Lily Rowen

Larry Light, playing Lon Cohen—Nero Wolfe's favored newspaper man—
interviews Jane K. Cleland, playing Lily Rowan—Archie Goodwin's long-time girlfriend—
during the 1934 Panel at Bouchercon 2009 Mystery Convention, October 17, 2009

Reprised at the 2009 Black Orchid Weekend, December 5, 2009

Brunch

Date/Time: Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009 / 12 noon
Location: Pete's Tavern (see above Book Discussion)
Description: Showing of the 1973 Book Beat on Tour (Chicago Educational TV) interview of Rex Stout at his home, High Meadow

SLIDE SHOW