Archive for January, 2008
Paul Haggis deal: do Scientologists believe in coincidence?
By Tom Teicholz at 31 January, 2008, 11:07 am
I suppose that to posit that a person of the Jewish faith had made a deal with a studio run by another person of the Jewish faith, and imply that their both being Jewish had anything to do with the deal being made, would sound Anti-Semitic.
So perhaps it would be wrong of me to [...]
Thursday website of the day : NEWSEUM
By Tom Teicholz at 31 January, 2008, 10:51 am
I’m not sure how Thursday came to be tech day, but the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other papers across the country have all designated Thursday tech/ gadget / website day.
So in that spirit, I would like to direct you the the website of the Newseum which has a feature allowing you [...]
Inside the LA Times Op-Ed
By Tom Teicholz at 31 January, 2008, 10:36 am
This week’s Jewish Journal has a good interview by Amy Klein with Nick Goldberg, editor of the LA Times Op-Ed page. The interview focuses, as the op-ed page does frequently, on coverage of the Middle East. Goldberg sees his role as hosting the airing of diverging opinions no matter how much they might anger one [...]
Read More >>New York Post endorses OBAMA (sort of)
By Tom Teicholz at 31 January, 2008, 10:28 am
In what must surely be one of the strangest and most convoluted arguments made in this primary season, the New York Post endorses Obama because he is not Hillary and then goes on to trash Hillary and Bill Clinton, separately, together, and trash the Clinton presidency — and then say they don’t think so much [...]
Read More >>The Brazilian Kafka? Clarice Lispector
By Tom Teicholz at 30 January, 2008, 10:08 am
This morning’s Nextbook has an essay by Anderson Tepper on Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
Her work called to mind a tropical, female Kafka with sensory overload. As the French literary critic and philosopher Hélène Cixous
put it: “I discovered an immense writer, the equivalent for me of
Kafka, with something more: This was a woman, writing as a [...]
Funny Spy Spoof by Tony Perri
By Tom Teicholz at 29 January, 2008, 3:15 pm
Tony Perri, who I don’t know made this video about Art Levitt, who I do know — about a trip he took several years ago to Russia as a Disney employee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsx6cE9amck
I can’t seem to figure out yet how to load this as a video straight from you tube, so just click on it.
The Journal it is a changin’
By Tom Teicholz at 29 January, 2008, 10:59 am
Today brings several announcements regarding the WSJ:
First off, the offices will move to mid-town Manhattan, away from the street from whence it derives its name. Does it matter ?– of course there is something to covering a beat and having the paper there — but the financial world and the worlds that the WSJ cover [...]
The Journal it is a changin’
By Tom Teicholz at 29 January, 2008, 10:59 am
Today brings several announcements regarding the WSJ:
First off, the offices will move to mid-town Manhattan, away from the street from whence it derives its name. Does it matter ?– of course there is something to covering a beat and having the paper there — but the financial world and the worlds that the WSJ [...]
The Journal it is a changin’
By Tom Teicholz at 29 January, 2008, 10:59 am
Today brings several announcements regarding the WSJ:
First off, the offices will move to mid-town Manhattan, away from the street from whence it derives its name. Does it matter ?– of course there is something to covering a beat and having the paper there — but the financial world and the worlds that the WSJ cover [...]
The Journal it is a changin’
By Tom Teicholz at 29 January, 2008, 10:59 am
Today brings several announcements regarding the WSJ:
First off, the offices will move to mid-town Manhattan, away from the street from whence it derives its name. Does it matter ?– of course there is something to covering a beat and having the paper there — but the financial world and the worlds that the WSJ cover [...]