Archive for September, 2008
SEE ‘Burn” After reading this
By Tom Teicholz at 11 September, 2008, 4:53 pm
But you will have to wait a few days.
Went to a preview screening of the Coen Brothers “Burn After Reading” at the Aero (we love the Aero!) and it was funny and great - sort of a slacker comedy about grown ups international espionage adultery made by incredibly experienced and talented filmmakers.
Every role was [...]
Tues morning roundup
By Tom Teicholz at 9 September, 2008, 11:21 am
Vergangenheitbewaltigung — A German word meaning coming to terms with the past. Apparently, according to a New York Times artcle yesterday, every German child knows it. Now you do as well.
AKASHA in Culver City — adding to the renaissance of Culver City and making Culver City even more of a destination is Akasha. We had [...]
Media Notes
By Tom Teicholz at 4 September, 2008, 11:28 am
Check out: Alessandra Stanley’s review of the new 90210 in today’s New York Times is brilliant. I should quote and link to it. But am feeling rushed and may add it in later.
NEW YORK SUN MAY FOLD!. Various reports claim that Seth Lipsky may have to fold The New York Sun within the next month [...]
Read More >>Dylan at the Santa Monica Civic
By Tom Teicholz at 4 September, 2008, 10:49 am
There we were standing for two hours in a room that more like a high school auditorium than a concert hall — no chairs on the floor, general admission, only seats in the bleachers in the back — the floor raked downwards toward the stage, so the better sight line was about a third way [...]
Read More >>RED AND BLUE NEWSPAPERS
By Tom Teicholz at 3 September, 2008, 9:49 am
Stepping outside my home this morning to gather the morning newspapers, I noticed something that perhaps I had not been paying attention to: The Wall Street Journal, which used to be delivered in a clear wrapper now comes in a red wrapper.
It then struck me that the New York Post is delivered [...]
summer’s over; school’s about to begin
By Tom Teicholz at 2 September, 2008, 9:10 pm
I’m referring of course to the season premieres’ of GOSSIP GIRL and the new 90210
Seeing Jay McInerney acting in the season premiere of Gossip Girl was weird and strangely well cast — and he was totally credible in his acting — but it was weird. The Tinsley Mortimer cameo seemed also like a weird product [...]