Archive for August, 2006
Kaplan’s Collage
By Tom Teicholz at 22 August, 2006, 3:26 pm
Here’s Marty Kaplan blogging on Huffington Post about suggested treatments for Mel Gibson’s “problem”:
“‘Jew Like Me’ is another strategy. Walk a mile in my shoes. Gain 10 pounds at my table. Wait two hours after lunch before swimming. Laugh that ironic meta-laugh right along with us when Jon Stewart says, ‘Jewey.’ Sensitize yourself to code [...]
The Mad Adventures of Gerard Oury
By Tom Teicholz at 11 August, 2006, 4:29 pm
“The King of popular comedy is dead,” proclaimed Le Figaro after Gerard Oury, one of France’s most successful directors (if not its most successful) died on Thursday, July 20, at his home in St. Tropez.
I know Oury’s work because as a teenager I went with my mother to New York’s 68th Street Playhouse, an art [...]
Life vs. Death
By Tom Teicholz at 3 August, 2006, 10:30 pm
In college, I wrote the same literature essay over and over again. Regardless of the novel, its plot or its country of origin, I found that I could always work up four pages on the subject of “Life vs. Death.”
My ideas on this subject were not particularly original. In a high school English class, some [...]