Archive for May, 2008
WILL ZOHAN BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST?
By Tom Teicholz at 29 May, 2008, 9:21 am
Can’t say. But it will brings laughs to the rest of the world.Went to a screening lasted night. Am organizing my thoughts over the weekend for a future column — more later….
Read More >>MUST SEE TV: RECOUNT on HBO
By Tom Teicholz at 28 May, 2008, 2:17 pm
RECOUNT, the HBO movie based on the Florida recount in the 2000 Bush vs Gore election is great movie making. Jay Roach has done an incredible job.Every aspect of the film — the casting, the visual details, the performances are all memorable.
The fact that we know the outcome yet the movie puts you [...]
Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye
By Tom Teicholz at 28 May, 2008, 10:45 am
Arts Journal’s featured video today is Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye singing a duet version of “When the Saints Go Marching in” It’s available on You Tube, click here
You might think it’s corny, but it swings — Danny Kaye, a complicated man, was full of awesome talent — check it out!
BCAM reconsidered
By Tom Teicholz at 27 May, 2008, 1:46 pm
This weekend my family and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum and visited the Broad Contemporary Art Museum. We had a great time — the art is great, well selected, well edited, well installed and displayed and the exhibtion is well organized. There is a great flow — as you walk from the [...]
Read More >>COrnell Capa dies
By Tom Teicholz at 27 May, 2008, 1:31 pm
Another legendary Hungarian Jew passes from this mortal coil — another famous Hungarian Jewish photographer dies.
Cornell Capa began life as Kornel Freidman in Budapest in 1918 (strange as it may seem Kornel was a popular name for assimilated Jews at the beginning of the 20th Century — My grandfather was also named Kornel).
Capa was [...]
You Know You’re Getting Old When
By Tom Teicholz at 23 May, 2008, 11:17 am
You hear someone’s name and then see the person, and it’s their son (or daughter).
The other morning I had the TV on and I heard the name Benno Schmidt, which I imagined referred to my ex- Law School professor and occasionally actor in Woody films only to see his son, who is now an on-camera [...]
You Know You’re Getting Old When
By Tom Teicholz at 23 May, 2008, 11:17 am
You hear someone’s name and then see the person, and it’s their son (or daughter).
The other morning I had the TV on and I heard the name Benno Schmidt, which I imagined referred to my ex- Law School professor and occasionally actor in Woody films only to see his son, who is now an on-camera [...]
Florent restaurant closing in NYC June 29
By Tom Teicholz at 23 May, 2008, 11:08 am
Another one bites the dust.
Florent, a French bistro in a diner in what was once the meat-packing district is closing its doors June 29. There was an oral history of sorts in the NYTimes this Wed to bid Florent “Au Revoir”.
Florent was open 24/7 which was a plus in the clubbing days but more recently [...]
MUSTANG by Deanne Stillman
By Tom Teicholz at 22 May, 2008, 1:58 pm
Just got my copy of Deanne Stillman’s MUSTANG: The saga of the Wild horse in the American West (Houghton Mifflin).
Mustang has received great blurbs from Ian Frazier, Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves), Tony Hillerman, Samantha Dunn, John Fusco and Deena Metzger and that’s just on the book jacket.
Stillman is one of the great narrative non-fiction [...]
Marvin Traub, energizer bunny
By Tom Teicholz at 21 May, 2008, 10:20 am
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured an article on the ever-busy Marvin Traub, retail consultant. I’m not sure you can access it if not a subscriber but try here.
Traub ran Bloomingdale’s for forty years. I was his co-author for “Like No Other Store” (Times Books). He now has a new tome in the works “Like No [...]