man and East Hamptonite Tom Hill and his wife, Janine; Robert Thompson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, and his wife, Ping Wang; real estate broker Elissa Burke and her Goldman Sachs husband, Alec Stais; Jerry Wolf, a chef who now works on Wall Street and his Ford model wife, Holly Hammond; MIT professor and Morgan Stanley executive Greg McRae; Citigroup’s Sara McKerihan; AIG’s Kathryn Hollerhan and her husband Charles; Perry Capital managing director George Brokaw and his wife, Alison; and copper trader and Southampton resident Jimmy Holme and his wife, Ana Maria. Others celebrating included: Woody Allen’s erstwhile film editor Susan Morse; film producer Peter Gettinger; Asia Society Director of Film, La Frances Hui; gallery owner Peter Sahlman; ballet critic Astrida Woods of Sag Harbor; Manhattan restaurateur and Water Mill resident Aldo Bozzi; Sag Harbor residents writer Wendy Moonan and Duncan Darrow of the cancer support nonprofit, Fighting Chance; and Mrs. Beale’s two sons, Julian and Andrew Beale, both of whom wrote music for a
recent independent movie. Mrs. Beale is from Australia and it was announced that she is sponsoring a retrospective on Australian film from 1970 to 1980 at the Film Society in November. The Hon. Gary Quinlan, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, said at the dedication, “It’s great to see a theater devoted to new and independent films bear an Australian name. Australia has a proud movie tradition, but this is a first: no other cultural venue in New York has been named after an Australian. Francesca and her husband, Chris, are the best of Australia’s exports—generous, unpretentious and successful.” The Australian Consul-General in New York, the Hon. Philip Scanlan, who was also present, said, “Francesca and Chris have shone their light on the cultural scene here for many years. We salute them for their impressive patronage of international culture and the arts.” Flying in for the event from Australia were Robert Goodrick and Paul Magnus from Canberra, Jim Magnus from Perth, and Pamela Scott from Sydney, who all spent time in Manhattan, Connecticut and Water Mill with the Beales. u
Clockwise from top left: Francesca Beale receives the first ticket to the theater from Film Society President, Daniel Stern; Ping Wang, Robert Thompson, and Chris Beale; Hon. Gary Quinlan, Hon. Philip Scanlan, Francesca Beale, and Jule Singer Scanlan; Holly Hammond and Jerry Wolf; Alison and George Brokaw; Jenny Johnson and Andrew Beale; La Francis Hui and Susan Talbot; Janine and Tom Hill; Julian Beale and Andrea Allan; David Rockwell.