Archive for March 4th, 2009
Horton Foote dies at 92
By Tom Teicholz at 4 March, 2009, 3:50 pm
Horton Foote the celebrated playwright and the screenwriter of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” died at 92.
Foote continued to write plays into his 90s and they continued to be produced.
I interviewed Horton Foote for Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine in the mid 1980s — we met at the Gramercy Park Hotel and he spent an [...]
Novelist Thane Rosenbaum tomorrow night at LMU
By Tom Teicholz at 4 March, 2009, 12:55 pm
Tommorrow night (Thursday March 5), novelist, attorney, law professor, and essayist Thane Rosenbaum will be appearing at Loyola Marymount University in their McIntosh Hall at 7pm.
Rosenbaum will be speaking on : “Artful Testimony: Responsibility and Imagination in Holocaust Narrative.” Rosenbaum is the author of the novels, “The Golems of Manhattan,” “Second Hand Smoke,” the short [...]
Tonight is the Annual “Night at Sardi’s” Alzheimer’s benefit
By Tom Teicholz at 4 March, 2009, 12:50 pm
This is an evening where –for one night only - TV stars take the stage to perform a musical in concert with the money raised going to the Alzheimer’s Association of Los Angeles.
Sometimes one forgets that the stars on TVs comedies and dramas where once high school students in musicals — and that some of [...]