Archive for May, 2009
Amos Elon, Israeli historian dead at 82
By Tom Teicholz at 26 May, 2009, 11:16 am
Here’s the obit in The NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/world/middleeast/26elon.html
Elon wrote about the early Zionists, about Herzl, about Germany and German Jews and German Jewish culture. He wrote and was published in English, German and Hebrew.
He is often mentioned as being severe in person, but he was a mentor to many writers — and his wife Beth Elon, [...]
Jill Sobule is featured on Very Short List
By Tom Teicholz at 20 May, 2009, 3:39 pm
Check it out: http://www.veryshortlist.com/vsl/daily.cfm/review/1216/CD/jill-sobule-california-years/
Read More >>WOODY WINS!
By Tom Teicholz at 19 May, 2009, 10:09 am
Woody Allen won $5 Million from Dov Charney and American Apparel as a settlement of his suit for Chaney using the image of Allen in Hasidic garb from Annie Hall –on billboards.
Despite whatever Charney and his lawyers said, this was a case he was never going to win. I guess they imagined that either Allen [...]
Sean Penn as Rock and Roll Nazi hunter — Really?
By Tom Teicholz at 18 May, 2009, 10:59 am
In today’s Variety among the announcements of new films was the news that he will work with Italian Filmmaker on “This must be place.” here’s the plot description:
“Penn would play a wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who [...]
The 100 Best novels (not my list)
By Tom Teicholz at 15 May, 2009, 4:44 pm
Every so often someone publishes a list of the 100 best novels: Below you will find NPR’s Dick meyer’s list as well as the Modern Library List. Each has their eccentricities. Whenever I read these lists I am always surprised by those books which I realize that I assume I have read, but really haven’t [...]
Read More >>Tony Curtis to appear at Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival
By Tom Teicholz at 15 May, 2009, 12:02 pm
The Awards event is Saturday June 13, but the fest kicks off with a screening of Houdini, and then later that night “Some like it Hot.”
All at the Million Dollar Theater in downtown Los Angeles (Sid Grauman’s first theater in LA as mentioned in my recent column).
For more info check out this link:
http://www.julesvernefestival.com/spip.php?article296&lang=fr
Are the 60s back again and are they different this time?
By Tom Teicholz at 15 May, 2009, 11:56 am
I’m thinking of writing my next column about this. The Grateful Dead are touring, Star Trek is in theaters, and Mark Rudd is doing a book tour. And we have a president, Barack Obama, who tells us change is possible.
Sounds like the 60s, doesn’t it?
Imre Kertesz in Le Nouvel Obs
By Tom Teicholz at 15 May, 2009, 11:54 am
Nobel prize winning novelist Imre Kertesz, 79, is interviewed in Le Nouvel Observateur — here’s the link (it’s in French): Auschwitz was my school.
http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/20090508/12372/imre-kertesz-auschwitz-a-ete-mon-ecole
Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr., the friend of my youth, is dead
By Tom Teicholz at 14 May, 2009, 11:14 am
I am extremely saddened to hear that Julio Santo Domingo, Jr. has died. Several months ago, I had heard that he was gravely ill and that he was in New York for treatment for cancer — and that the prognosis was not good.
But I was shocked when opening the pages of the current Vanity Fair [...]
Rocco Landesman to run NEA
By Tom Teicholz at 13 May, 2009, 11:30 am
A surprising and interesting choice on many levels.
Landesman is famous and notorious on several fronts, in no way a typical Broadway producer or arts management executive.
While at Yale he had contact with Jerzy Kosinski and later would claim that he was one of Kosinski’s ghostwriters.
He also took bettng on horses seriously and made a good [...]