Archive for December, 2005
Larry David Died for our Sins
By Tom Teicholz at 25 December, 2005, 11:45 pm
Larry David, the producer-writer-star of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has just finished airing the fifth season of his HBO program. Many people find him hilarious. Others find him annoying in the extreme. Both are right, of course, and David builds his humor out of this particular intersection of pain and pleasure. However, this season has been [...]
Read More >>Crystal Clear (700 Sundays)
By Tom Teicholz at 16 December, 2005, 10:22 am
Billy Crystal has something he wants to share with you.
Crystal has had a diverse and varied career, with plenty of ups and downs, as a stand-up comic, a TV performer and a movie actor. On the one hand, he starred in “When Harry Met Sally,” a movie that convinced many non-Jewish women to imagine that [...]
The Painted Bird - Revisited
By Tom Teicholz at 5 December, 2005, 4:25 pm
Forty years ago this Oct. 15, Houghton Mifflin published “The Painted Bird” by Jerzy Kosinski. The book was immediately acclaimed as a must-read text on the Holocaust and the nature of human cruelty.
In the years leading up to and following Kosinski’s 1991 suicide, his reputation was tarnished by a series of revelations that the author [...]