Archive for March, 2009
City of Images
By Tom Teicholz at 26 March, 2009, 10:53 am
Los Angeles has long held a fascination with the visual; beholden to looks, surfaces and images, it is a city where even the buildings seem to strike a pose. So it might seem surprising that until now, there’s never been an institution here devoted to photography. But that all changes this week with the opening [...]
Read More >>Laud the Life of Sid Grauman, Hollywood’s Gold Standard
By Tom Teicholz at 13 March, 2009, 12:18 pm
Ever wonder how the movie industry went from five-cent nickelodeons in New York to the glamour of Hollywood with red carpet premieres and the highest of artistic aspirations? Or why a certain pagoda-like Hollywood movie theater in whose courtyard rest footprints of actors is one of the most beloved and frequented tourist sites on the [...]
Read More >>Zap! Pow! Bam!
By Tom Teicholz at 1 March, 2009, 10:46 pm
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s two Jewish kids from Cleveland!
The fact that Superman, the defender of truth, justice and the American way, as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, was not so much from Krypton as, in the words of cartoon artist Jules Feiffer, “from Planet Minsk,” [...]