Archive for June, 2008
Making Book on LA
By Tom Teicholz at 17 June, 2008, 11:10 am
BookExpo, the annual convention of booksellers and book publishers that
took place in Los Angeles one recent weekend, is the book industry’s
annual get-together, alternating among the publishing hub of New York
and various other cities, such as Miami, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and
Los Angeles.
Perhaps it’s the state of the book industry, the economy or just the
cost of gas, [...]
The pariah loophole
By Tom Teicholz at 14 June, 2008, 9:05 am
The following opinion article appeared yesterday on the Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times:
John Demjanjuk’s last appeal to avoid deportation was rejected by the
U.S. Supreme Court on May 19. The 88-year-old accused Nazi
concentration camp guard was stripped of his citizenship and ordered
sent to Ukraine, his birthplace; Poland, the locus of the crimes; or
Germany, the [...]
Sandler and the Zohan
By Tom Teicholz at 12 June, 2008, 4:20 pm
As everyone knows by now, Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”
dives in where few comedies have gone before: The Middle East conflict
between Arabs and Jews. Hollywood has a long tradition of preferring
onscreen Jews to be Semitic-lite (or even better, portrayed by non-Jews
such as Gregory Peck in “Gentleman’s Agreement”).
Sandler, however, pulls no such [...]