Archive for June, 2008
What if Arts Writers and Sports Writers Changed Places?
By Tom Teicholz at 18 June, 2008, 12:03 pm
This is exactly the question England’s Guardian newspaper set out to answer. In today’s installment, dance critics, visual art critics, and other arts writers, review horse racing, darts and crickets. Click Here.Tomorrow the sports writers take on the arts.
Read More >>MONDAY REPORT
By Tom Teicholz at 16 June, 2008, 11:11 am
MORE ARTISTS IN LA THAN NEW YORK — LA has most artists in The USAccording to an NEA report published on June 1, Los Angeles is the city with the most working artists in the US, and California, the state with the most. Read the article about the report in the LA TIMES here.
DAYWATCHI watched [...]
READ MY LA TIMES OP-ED
By Tom Teicholz at 13 June, 2008, 9:57 am
Here’s the link to “The Pariah Loophole” in today’s LA Times in which I discuss how former Nazis remain free here because no country will take them.
Read More >>BIG WEEK FOR TOMMYWOOD: Sandler & Zohan, BookExpo, Op-Ed in LA Times
By Tom Teicholz at 12 June, 2008, 4:28 pm
This week I have two columns to share, one on Adam Sandler and Zohan, which I’ve posted; and another on “Making Book on LA” about the bookseller’s convention, BookExpo, which was just in LA, and that I will post later (either in the blog or the Tommywood column.Also tomorrow, Friday June 13, 2008, I will [...]
Read More >>Bruccoli: The Fitzgerald expert
By Tom Teicholz at 11 June, 2008, 3:38 pm
In the New York Times books blog, paper cuts, Rachel Donadio has a nice obituary reminiscence about Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Fitzgerald expert, who wrote many many volumes on F. Scott,, particularly about his time in Hollywood.
In high school I was a Fitzgerald fanatic, and wrote a big senior essay on Fitzgerald (although I can’t [...]
Food notes from around town
By Tom Teicholz at 11 June, 2008, 11:44 am
A lot of LA restaurant news that you need to know:
Just ate at “The Hall” at the PaliHouse Hotel on Holloway just east of La Cienega (where the Nike Store once stood). Very cool. Reasonably priced — bistro fare plus… So they have mussels, steak frites, a delicious roast chicken, but the setting is what [...]
CHANGES AT THE LA TIMES SUNDAY MAG
By Tom Teicholz at 10 June, 2008, 10:47 am
Reports appeared today that the LA Times Sunday Magazine is no more (again). Or Rather than the current regime has all been fired and that the magazine has been turned over to the business side who will devise their own version of the magazine, free from the control of the editorial side, and engage writers [...]
Read More >>From the European magazines; Konrad, Gyorgy and Poland’s investigation of its own Anti-Semitic history
By Tom Teicholz at 6 June, 2008, 9:57 am
Sightandsound.com does a great job of summarizing what’s been appearing the European press of literary or cultural note. Two items I want to bring to your attention, Gyorgy Konrad, author of “The Case Worker: among many other important works on the importance of Memory.
Nepszabadsag 10.05.2008 (Hungary)Does man need to remember? There is no question about [...]
Read More >>Robert F. Kennedy
By Tom Teicholz at 5 June, 2008, 2:55 pm
Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
I shook Robert Kennedy’s hand once.
I was a young kid and was attending the Puerto Rican Day parade in New York along Fifth Avenue with my father. My father loved parades and we went often — whatever the occasion or and ethnic group: [...]
BEHIND EVERY GREAT (gay) MAN, there is often a woman
By Tom Teicholz at 5 June, 2008, 11:45 am
And it is usually his mother.
I am reminded of this when reading the obits of Yves St. Laurent, who died this past week.
About fifteen years ago as part of co-authoring Marvin Traub’s memoirs, I accompanied on his last visit to the Paris collections as head of Bloomingdale’s. At one event, a cocktail party, [...]