Monday Morning roundup
THE OSCARS
Here's the strange thing: There's not much to say about the Oscars.
Jon Stewart handled himself well, more confident than last year and he had a few good jokes, but there were no home runs.
It was clear that as part of their "plan B" in case they had a show without writers, they made all those video packages -- but using them and including all the musical numbers, just made for a plodding show.
The audience held no surprises either. At this point, one has to wonder: does Jack Nicholson even know whether he's at a Lakers game or at an awards show? --it seems all the same to him.
To give Jon Stewart credit he did one great, gracious and memorable thing -- inviting the girl from "once" back onstage to deliver her acceptance speech, after the show producers cut her off. All in all a muted Oscars.
THE WAY OF THE BLOGGER
Today's New York Times Business section had an interesting feature about Talking Points Memo -- which gives us independent journalists a business model to aspire to - he has ads, sponsors and he has asked for donations from his readers to finance specific investigative ventures -- watch out! Tommywood could be next.
CLOSING TIME FOR DUTTON'S BOOKSTORE
This morning, Susan Freudenheim, my editor at the Jewish Journal forwarded me the release that Dutton's Bookstore of Brentwood is closing.
Dutton's was the West Side of LA's great independent bookstore -- when I first arrived in LA it reminded me of great independent bookstores in NY -- such as Books & Co, the Madison Bookstore, Cantebury Books, and Shakespeare Co., -- but they are all gone too. I seem to recall that I had a book party at Dutton's before we even moved here --- Which book? I'm not sure. Can I even find a copy of the invitation? I need to dive in to my archives for that. The fragments drop through the cracks......
Anyhow, Susan asked me if I wanted to write a column about Dutton's closing and I probably will.
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Here's the strange thing: There's not much to say about the Oscars.
Jon Stewart handled himself well, more confident than last year and he had a few good jokes, but there were no home runs.
It was clear that as part of their "plan B" in case they had a show without writers, they made all those video packages -- but using them and including all the musical numbers, just made for a plodding show.
The audience held no surprises either. At this point, one has to wonder: does Jack Nicholson even know whether he's at a Lakers game or at an awards show? --it seems all the same to him.
To give Jon Stewart credit he did one great, gracious and memorable thing -- inviting the girl from "once" back onstage to deliver her acceptance speech, after the show producers cut her off. All in all a muted Oscars.
THE WAY OF THE BLOGGER
Today's New York Times Business section had an interesting feature about Talking Points Memo -- which gives us independent journalists a business model to aspire to - he has ads, sponsors and he has asked for donations from his readers to finance specific investigative ventures -- watch out! Tommywood could be next.
CLOSING TIME FOR DUTTON'S BOOKSTORE
This morning, Susan Freudenheim, my editor at the Jewish Journal forwarded me the release that Dutton's Bookstore of Brentwood is closing.
Dutton's was the West Side of LA's great independent bookstore -- when I first arrived in LA it reminded me of great independent bookstores in NY -- such as Books & Co, the Madison Bookstore, Cantebury Books, and Shakespeare Co., -- but they are all gone too. I seem to recall that I had a book party at Dutton's before we even moved here --- Which book? I'm not sure. Can I even find a copy of the invitation? I need to dive in to my archives for that. The fragments drop through the cracks......
Anyhow, Susan asked me if I wanted to write a column about Dutton's closing and I probably will.
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