Archive for March, 2003
Polanski Hits a Sour Note in ‘Pianist’
By Tom Teicholz at 21 March, 2003, 9:06 pm
Truth to tell, I didn’t start to despise “The Pianist” — Roman’s Polanski’s Oscar-nominated film of concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman’s memoirs of Warsaw during World War II — until the very end of the film: The war has ended and a friend has taken Szpilman to a farm in the Polish countryside. There used to [...]
Read More >>Is Hollywood Against the War?
By Tom Teicholz at 14 March, 2003, 9:08 pm
Across the country, Americans are wondering, “Why is Hollywood against the war?”
On TV programs and TV and radio talk shows, in magazines and newspapers, they see actors and actresses opining, talking the talk and walking the anti-war walk. This has led to a separate thread of programs and opinion pieces about whether Hollywood stars should [...]