Archive for January, 2009
More Updike
By Tom Teicholz at 28 January, 2009, 1:24 pm
Updike has been accused of misogyny — and all I would like to say is that Updike was no polemicist, he was a novelist expressing the attitudes of his characters, and as such was as muich a misogynist or no more or less of a misogynist than his contemporaries and his readers.
Similarly with regard to [...]
Updike
By Tom Teicholz at 28 January, 2009, 12:25 pm
John Updike, one of America’s premier man of letters has died at 76 of lung cancer. He was last in Los Angeles in November when he appeared at Royce Hall as part of UCLA LIVE in conversation with David Uhlin and reading from his latest novel, “The Widows of Eastwick.”
Updike was genial and in good [...]
The Sheridan strikes back!
By Tom Teicholz at 26 January, 2009, 1:20 pm
Last Thursday night at M Bar in Hollywood before a sold out crowd, Wendy Sheridan a/k/a Wendy Kurtzman nee Wendy Solomon made a triumphant return to the stage with a re-vamped stage show that was a definite crowd pleaser.
SInce her last performance at The Kitchen, Wendy has become a more confident performer, more assured on [...]
Read More >>Ethan Bronner on writing about the Middle East Conflict
By Tom Teicholz at 26 January, 2009, 12:00 pm
Very good piece by Ethan Bronner in the Week in Review about the difficultites in writing about the conflcit in the Middle East to audiences who only want to hear the narrative they believe in based on the assumptions they hold and the vehemence with which they don’t want to hear words or facts that [...]
Read More >>The WRAP launches
By Tom Teicholz at 26 January, 2009, 11:56 am
Sharon Waxman’s web based entertainment news site launched today (the daily email from her site, First Take by Amy Kaufman has been going out for a couple of weeks) but now the site is up and hopes to offer a deeper more current take on Hollywood and its happenings.
The Wrap hopes to be more successful [...]
John Thain: from hero to zero
By Tom Teicholz at 23 January, 2009, 11:50 am
John Thain has left the Merrill building, no longer I, Robot, more like I F**ked Up. Only a short while ago, some eighteen months or so ago, Merrill stock was at 100 and Stan O’Neal was on top of the world, then the subprime mess began to unfold and Mr. O’Neal left with a giant [...]
Read More >>And we’re back….
By Tom Teicholz at 23 January, 2009, 11:12 am
My server was down for the last two days for reasons that my service provider 1and 1 explained to me but that frankly I understood not a word of. All I knew was that I couldn’t access my website or post.
But as of this morning, no excuses, just posting……
The New York Times agrees
By Tom Teicholz at 20 January, 2009, 4:32 pm
In looking for the phrase that best sums up President Obama’s inaugural address the New York Times seems to agree with me that….
President Obama Vows Era of Responsibility
“Our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests
and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed.â€
Job please?
Read More >>President Obama: “The new era of responsibility”
By Tom Teicholz at 20 January, 2009, 11:28 am
For me, that is the tag-line for President Obama’s inauguration speech — signaling the game-changing history- making moment and the journey we are embarking on.
It was a very focused serious speech, befitting the occasion, sending a signal to the world and to our country that change is a coming — and has come.
Amen.
Mentalist, schmentalist
By Tom Teicholz at 15 January, 2009, 11:19 am
I watched CBS’ big “hit” the menatlist last night and couldn’t quite my head around it. On the positive side Simon Baker seems to have finally mastered an American acccent an ability that seemed to elude him in previous try outs. But he seems to spend too much of the show smirking, and making inappropriate [...]
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