Archive for July, 2009
Grace Jones at the Bowl: Counting Crows at the Greek
By Tom Teicholz at 28 July, 2009, 4:35 pm
I’ve been lucky enough to attend two great shows recently. :
Last Sunday Night Grace Jones in all her fabulousness took the stage of the Hollywood Bowl to remind us that sometimes it is not about having the best voice, or the greatest band, or being the best dancer, it is about performance artistry, showmanship and [...]
tommywood backlog
By Tom Teicholz at 28 July, 2009, 3:52 pm
you may or may not have noticed but there’s been no new tommywood column in over a month — not for lack of writing them — but the thinness of summer issues at the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles — among other reasons have delayed a few from appearing. There are three now waiting in [...]
Read More >>This reporter, Walter Cronkite (and a Michael Jackson reference)
By Tom Teicholz at 20 July, 2009, 11:56 am
since everything right now must be set in the context of Michael Jackson, I must say that the wonderful memorializing that occurred on CBS SUNDAY morning on behalf of Walter Cronkite made me realize that for journalists and for those who watched the evening news throughout the Sixties and Seventies, Walter Cronkite was as big [...]
Read More >>Sentencing for those who kidnapped, tortured and murdered Ilan Halmi in France
By Tom Teicholz at 17 July, 2009, 11:23 am
The Times (UK) online has the story of the sentencing for those who participated in the murder of Ilan Halmi, a 23 year old Jewish shop assistant who was lured by a 17 year old girl to meet him, and then kidnapped — originally for ransom — by a gang of 27 people, BECAUSE [...]
Read More >>Julius Shulman dies at 98
By Tom Teicholz at 16 July, 2009, 2:37 pm
Just a few months short of his 99th birthday Julius Shulman, the great architectural photographer, passed away at home.
To read my column about Shulman that was published last October:
http://tommywood.com/2007/11/picturing-la-julius-shulman.html
Was the MOON LANDING just a small step?
By Tom Teicholz at 16 July, 2009, 2:14 pm
On July 20, we will observe the 40th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon. At the time the event seeemed huge — perhaps the most important event of our time, one that would overshadow whatever else followed.
Today, forty years later, the moon landing doesn’t stand out as much. It seems like a feat, a [...]
Six years after the SM farmer’s market accident
By Tom Teicholz at 15 July, 2009, 2:05 pm
six years ago on July 16 2003 a car went out of control and crashed into the Santa Monica famers market.
On that day I was having lunch on the promenade with two friends who also have offices in the same building as me, one of whom had recently survived a life threatening illness. We had [...]
don’t complain, write says Norah Ephron
By Tom Teicholz at 8 July, 2009, 11:58 am
There was a Norah Ephron profile in a recent New Yorker — a bit of a puff piece but what’s not to like about Norah? The underlying refrain of the piece was that Ephron doesn’t like complainers — and that when something bad happens her attitude is to either wonder how she can use it [...]
Read More >>Franz Molnar’s Heirs Fight Over His Bank Account, And Their Identity
By Tom Teicholz at 3 July, 2009, 5:07 pm
This is an amazing story in this week’s Forward.com– and the local angle is that Randol Schoenberg — whom the Klimt case against the Austrian government is pressing this one on behalf of Molnar’s great-grandson Gabor Lukin
read it here: http://forward.com/articles/108795/
I still miss Warren Zevon
By Tom Teicholz at 3 July, 2009, 3:29 pm
Right now my Ipod is playing “Johnny Strikes up the Band,” and it reminds me that I miss Warren Zevon.
I didn’t know him, but his music was with me (and it sill is). But somehow the notion that Zevon was out there, sober or not, on a rampage, or making music was a comfort — [...]