Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books is live at Authors Night 2018 from the East Tampton Library.

I am here with Ellie Coleman, who's the founder of Colemanman and Kravs Associates, a world-renowned

firm that redefines home interior.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, fun fact, her family owns the Peter Lugar stakeout.

Ellie went to Barnard and Columbia Graduate School before starting her business later in life.

She has co-authored several books, including Decorating Masterclass, Home is Cravis Way,

the detailed interior, decorating a post-pola Crabbett, and her latest,

Ruth's classic, Jennifer's mother of three grandchildren, including the hit theater producer,

Triphold.

Ellie has decorated homes from Miami and Texas to Hawaii.

Thank you, Cindy.

Lovely introduction.

So my mom has been telling me, I know you've been friends with both my parents for a long time.

My mom has been telling me, louder, my mom has been telling me for years that you and Mrs.

Cravis, or Hetty Kravis, a long time ago had an idea for a screenplay and then he showed it to some

producers and they said, what are you guys just decorated as dead? Any just decorated instead? It's absolutely a true story. Hedy and I decided, because I'm a crazy movie nut, I go to the movies at least two or three times a week, and Hedy and I decided that we would write the story of her divorce from Henry Kraviss, a banker that nobody had ever heard of 35 years ago. Of course,

now people have heard of him. So we spent a year writing a screenplay. We bought books about

how to write a screenplay, 120 pages, plot point one on page 30, plot point two, and page 90.

We spent a year writing this, what we felt was a wonderful warm story about the life, submitted it to

our dear friend Stanley Jaffe, who had just won an Academy Award for Kramer v. Kramer.

Thank you.

We went to his office, hoping that he would think we had some kernel of an idea that would make

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