Archive for December, 2003
Dreaming of a Blue and White Christmas (Christmas Movies from Michael Curtiz to Jon Favreau)
By Tom Teicholz at 26 December, 2003, 8:37 pm
Christmas came early this year — Nov. 7, when New Line Cinema released “Elf,” the family-friendly comedy that, as of this writing, has earned more than $156 million (see story, p. 19). Another surprise is the success of the far-more-cynical adult offering “Bad Santa,” which had a production cost of $18 million and, since its [...]
Read More >>‘Fabulous Invalid’ (Ruth Seymour’s Chanukah Program on KCRW)
By Tom Teicholz at 19 December, 2003, 8:38 pm
I used to have this Thanksgiving Day ritual in New York: no matter what I was doing, or where I was going, I would find a way to be near a radio around 11:30 a.m., to tune in to WNEW-FM 102.7’s broadcast of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant,” in its entirety, in all its musical and [...]
Read More >>A Search for Intellectual L.A. (Paul Holdengraber and LACMA)
By Tom Teicholz at 5 December, 2003, 8:39 pm
It’s a Friday night and an overflow crowd is jammed into the penthouse of the former May Co. store on Wilshire Boulevard — now Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) West — to hear a conversation between French journalist and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy and The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik.
Presiding over this abundance of intelligence [...]