Archive for July, 2008
FREEWHEELIN’ RECOMMEND: SUZE ROTOLO MEMOIR OF DYLAN DAYS
By Tom Teicholz at 31 July, 2008, 12:07 pm
Suze Rotolo who was the girl on the cover of Bob Dylan’s second album “Freewheelin’” has written a memoir of her times. She was interviewed for the Dylan documentary “No Direction Home”and made such an impression as an intelligent forthright sensitive person who stayed true to herself, but whose impact on Dylan was undeniable, that [...]
Read More >>Recommended Play: The Accomplices
By Tom Teicholz at 30 July, 2008, 11:25 am
“The Accomplices” is Bernard Weinraub’s play about Peter Bergson, born Hillel Kook, a Jewish activist who came to the US to raise funds during World War Two, at first for a Jewish Army to fight against the Nazis and then once the US joined the war for an Emergency Rescue of the Jews of Europe. [...]
Read More >>SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL
By Tom Teicholz at 29 July, 2008, 11:51 am
At 11:42 AM I was on the phone, leaving a message for my editor, a (junk) fax was coming in. I began to hear and then feel a rumbling — at first I thought it was related to the construction going on in my office building– then about a few seconds into it, I realized [...]
Read More >>Mark Sarvas’ Summer of Roth
By Tom Teicholz at 28 July, 2008, 5:02 pm
Over at the elegant Variation, Mark Sarvas has declared this his “Summer of Roth”, where he’s catching up on his Roth, prior to reviewing the forthcoming “Indidgniation” from Houghton Mifflin — and as he notes on his blogs I also took on a summer Roth film project for my last column. He’s also giving away [...]
Read More >>Back with The New Yorker
By Tom Teicholz at 28 July, 2008, 4:41 pm
For the last month or two, the New Yorker had lost me. I would pick up the issue, look at the table of contents and then the maazine would sink back down into a pile….of other New Yorkers. However, I must say that the current issue once again had a complement of interesting articles. First [...]
Read More >>Summer Reading List
By Tom Teicholz at 23 July, 2008, 4:29 pm
I’m always getting asked what I’m going to read this summer, or more to the point what others should be reading:
Here’s a list of some books I hope to tackle this summer in hardback and paper and others I am recommending as part of the mix.All are novels unless noted otherwiseUnaccustomed Earth by Jumpha Lahiri [...]
CIRCUS IS OVER THE TOP! (now playing at the Honda Center in Orange County)
By Tom Teicholz at 22 July, 2008, 11:23 am
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is back in town — “Over The Top” is the name of this year’s presentation.
My daughter, having attended last year was excited to go again and this time we brought along friends, another dad and daughter, Charles and Emma N..
My daughter’s first question was “Is Bello [...]
FOOD NOTES: R + D Kitchen opens
By Tom Teicholz at 18 July, 2008, 10:31 am
R + D Kitchen opened up on Montana Ave in Santa Monica last night. This is the new restaurant form the restaurant group that has Houston’s, Bandera and Gulfstream. There is already an R + D in Orange County but this is the first in the LA area.
R+D have taken up residence in the location [...]
Speech! Speech! Hollywood and its reaction to Humanitarian crisises or How Larry David and Angelina Jolie saved the world
By Tom Teicholz at 17 July, 2008, 3:00 pm
This past Sunday I gave a speech to the Hadassah Associates who are, for the most part, the husbands of the members of Hadassah. Hadassah is holding its annual convention in Los Angeles this year, and I was addressing the group after they had visited the Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. My [...]
Read More >>JOHANNA COOPER, Radio maven, dead at 53
By Tom Teicholz at 17 July, 2008, 11:17 am
Let me begin with the weird part. Earlier this week, I called Johanna Cooper to tell her about an idea for a radio show that I wanted to work with her on. Over the course of the last two years since being introduced by Iva Kaufman we had been trying to cook up something together. [...]
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