Archive for March, 2009
Updike would have loved this!
By Tom Teicholz at 13 March, 2009, 9:44 am
From Cynthia Tuner’s Cynopsis:
Rebecca Romijn, seen most recently on ABC’s Ugly Betty, will join the cast of Eastwick, the ABC drama pilot about three women who discover they have supernatural powers when a mystery man moves to town. Romijn will be part of the ensemble cast including Lindsay Price, Veronica Cartwright and Jaime Ray Newman. [...]
Germany Charges Demjanjuk as accessory to 29,000 murders of Jews at Sobibor
By Tom Teicholz at 11 March, 2009, 11:14 am
Last Summer, the US rejected Demjanjuk’s final appeals of his deportation from the United States — deported for having lied on his naturalization papers about his Nazi service. The question remained which nation would request Demjanjuk for extradition and for what charges they would try him — if any. I discussed this situation in an [...]
Read More >>Word goes out: Aim higher! Madoff wears a bulletproof vest
By Tom Teicholz at 10 March, 2009, 4:41 pm
This was in the AP account
Madoff, who wears a bulletproof vest, arrived at court more than three hours before the hearing as authorities tried to diminish the chance he would face a confrontation with investors. Several lawyers for investors showed up as spectators, but the courtroom was largely packed with members of the media.
Librairie de France closing in Rockefeller Center
By Tom Teicholz at 10 March, 2009, 3:26 pm
Reading Mark Sarvas’ blog the Elegant Variation I learned that the French bookstore in Rockefeller Center, Librairie de France was closing.
Like Mark, I also spent many childhood hours there and yes also assembled my collection of Tintins there — not mention Asterix and the occasional Lucky Luke.
The Librairie seemed very much of another era, even [...]
Reading Twilight
By Tom Teicholz at 9 March, 2009, 1:09 pm
My daughter who is on the fourth volume of the twilight series (she is 11) has been encouraging me to read it and catch up to her.
So this weekend I started in. “Twilight” is the first volume and it clocks in around 500 pages. I am 300 pages in and so far I find it [...]
Thane Rosenabaum’s thoughts on Holocaust narratives
By Tom Teicholz at 6 March, 2009, 12:27 pm
I was delighted to introduce Thane Rosenbaum last night at Loyala Marymount University (LMU )and moderate the Q & A after. Thane was speaking on Artful Testimony: reponsibility and imagination in Holocaust narrative.
Thane made a lot of very thought provoking comments, Basically, — and let me say, that clearly you should go hear Thane, because [...]
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 [...]
Kindle blinks: makes computer reader optional
By Tom Teicholz at 2 March, 2009, 3:29 pm
There was a feature on the kindle2 which allowed you to have a voice read the book for you. The Author’s Guild objected saying this was going to kill audio book sales.
Whether this was ever going to be a real problem or not - I applaud my guild, the Author’s Guild, first of all for [...]