Archive for September, 2004

GULF WAR SYNDROME IS REAL

The LA Times today has an article that confirms that years or test have confirmed that exposure to toxins in the first Gulf War did affect veterans with what has been called Gulf War Syndrome. Many years ago I tried to set up a cable movie about a family’s fight to get the VA to [...]

Jason Bentley is national news; Nick Harcourt is old news

Nick Harcourt announced that after ten years of hosting “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on KCRW FM, he is leaving to pursue other opportunities, which we all know means, to see if he can make a living. Jason Bentley who has been at KCRW for many years hosting a variety of programs and events will be taking over [...]

Fast reading versus slow reading

Over the last few weeks I needed to get up to speed on a number of writers, Yoram Kaniuk, Mier Shalev, Evan Handler, Jonathan Kirsch so I sped through a lot of books. I read them, and I read them fast — and it was amazing how one could really get a feel for the [...]

what?s to be done with the car companies

Should we bail out GM, Ford, Chrysler and if so, how and on what terms? Or should be darwinian and let the chips fall where they may. I;ve been hearing arguments on all sides for days now. One argument against says maybe it’s not a bad thing if the car companies fail; maybe all the [...]

John Updike at UCLA LIVE: one of the last of the Mohicans

John Updike was at Royce Hall in conversation with David Uhlin as part of UCLA LIVE. Updike was there to promote and talk about his new novel “The Widows of Eastwick” a sequel to “The Witches of Eastwick” — and the evening was really a pleasure. Updike read a passage from the new novel which gave [...]

Lipstick Jungle falls prey to law of Jungle

NBC has pulled the plug on Lipstick Jungle — a show that in its original incarnation, as what happens to sex in the city women once they reach the top, was intriguing - became more of a soap opera and was little watched, I feel because it was so dour - everyone seemed depressed or [...]

OOPS Rupert does it again

Rupert, who famously promised not to interefere with the Wall Street Journal’s editorial — just like he promised Dorothy Schiff not to change the New York Post — appointed Thomson editorial director. Thomson has just brough in another Murdoch-ite Baker to run the news department. Baker is an awowed right wing curmodgeon. Is that really [...]

Bad Arolsen Archives

Last night I went to a presentation on the archives at Bad Arolsen which include the International Red Cross’ International Tracing service, which were only opened up to the public last May, and which by next year should be available in diigitzed form at the US Holocaust Museum. The Archives contain many Nazi records concerning labor [...]

German Prosecutor submits request to extradite Demjanjuk

According the the AP, Germany’s top Nazi war crimes prosecutor has submitted a request to German authorities have Germany ask for the extradition of Demjanjuk for his service at Nazi death camps including Sobibor.

In which I interview Evan Handler, Meir Shalev and Jonathan Kirsch

Yesterday the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) held their second annual Celebration of Jewish Books. It was a beautiful day — and that turned out, I believe, to not necessarily be a good thing — which is a long way of saying that attendance was low — lower than last year. Most people [...]

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