Archive for October, 2008
It’s SHOWTIME for this Cantor
By Tom Teicholz at 16 October, 2008, 12:25 pm
At the dawn of Hollywood talkies, “The Jazz Singer” told the story of a young Jewish man’s conflict between a career in the entertainment industry and being a cantor. The sacred and the profane seemed two poles whose opposing magnetic draws tore the protagonist apart. But that was 1927.
Today, more than 90 years later, I [...]
Steven Spielberg dreams anew
By Tom Teicholz at 6 October, 2008, 12:47 am
Over the last two weeks, lost amid Wall Street’s financial turmoil, came the announcement that Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks was leaving Paramount, having found financing from The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (”Reliance”), one of India’s largest private companies.
What does the fact that no American studio or financier made a better offer say about Spielberg, his [...]