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A wait staff in color

Photo by Steven Dahlman

May 8, 2010 – (Above) Waiters in loud jackets at Smith & Wollensky pose Friday night with Vincent Falk and Jennifer Burns (center) at a party following the Chicago premier of Vincent: A Life In Color. The documentary about Falk is being shown daily through May 13 at the Gene Siskel Film Center at 164 North State Street.

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“We’ve been working on this film for five years,” Burns told the crowd at a party for the film after its first showing, “and all I ever wanted to do was get it into Chicago, and we finally got it into Chicago. And now people can actually put a real person to the face, to the suit.”

According to Burns, 197 people attended the sold-out first screening of the film at Gene Siskel Film Center. They included people who appear in the film, such as Sister Bernadette Eaton, one of Vincent’s teachers at St. Joseph’s Home for the Friendless, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg, Russ Dober, a former supervisor, Dennis Brozynski, a friend of Vincent’s, and Roberto Nassiri, owner of the clothing store on South State Street where Vincent buys his colorful suits.

  • What: Vincent: A Life In Color
  • When: May 7 - May 13, 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
  • Where: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street, Chicago
  • Cost: $10

More information: Gene Siskel Film Center

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