Archive for January, 2006
COMEDY MATTERS (Albert Brooks)
By Tom Teicholz at 31 January, 2006, 3:59 pm
“After 9/11, all I did was sit around and be scared,” Albert Brooks told me recently. “After a year and a half,” Brooks now says, “I just got tired of it.”
He wondered, “Why isn’t this being processed? Do we never mention it?” Looking at what Hollywood was releasing to the public, he concluded that “most [...]
Fight of the Century
By Tom Teicholz at 6 January, 2006, 12:37 pm
Joe Louis’ boxing match against Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium in 1938 remains one of the great sporting events of the 20th century — even though the fight in front of nearly 70,000 spectators lasted all of two minutes and four seconds.
Some 67 years after that fateful night of fisticuffs, David Margolick, a Vanity Fair [...]