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Hooray for Bill Stadiem
By Tom Teicholz at 30 October, 2008, 10:51 am
Today’s New York Times features a very positive review of George Hamilton’s autobiography by Janet Maslin, who goes out of her way to praise Hamilton’s co-author Bill Stadiem. Billy — an old friend, who I wrote up in a column written connection with the publication of :”Mr. S” a memoir by George jacobs, Sinatra’s valet, [...]
Read More >>Orgasmic Obituaries
By Tom Teicholz at 30 October, 2008, 10:44 am
There is some irony, intential on unitentional in that today’s Variety featured obituaries for both Gerard Damiano and Estelle Reiner. Damiano is most famous for “Deep Throat.” Reiner, for her line “I’ll have what she’s having” in her son Rob’s movie “When Harry Met Sally”.
Read More >>readings
By Tom Teicholz at 17 October, 2008, 12:48 pm
The Student magazine NEW VOICES which is the national jewish student magazine has a new issue that focuses on the lubbavitch movement — there’s some interesting articles and info there about the Chabad presence on campus, the fight over who owns the 770 building and assortment of former chabadniks including one who joined the US [...]
Read More >>Reading Variety
By Tom Teicholz at 15 October, 2008, 10:28 am
I’ve always been intrigued by the conversation that goes on inside one’s head as one reads the Trades. In a cost-cutting measure I abandoned the Hollywood Reporter, but I still maintain my Varety subscription, although I am tempted to move to a online subscription (shared — shush! don’t tell anyone).
What is so strange about reading [...]
From the European magazines; Konrad, Gyorgy and Poland’s investigation of its own Anti-Semitic history
By Tom Teicholz at 6 June, 2008, 9:57 am
Sightandsound.com does a great job of summarizing what’s been appearing the European press of literary or cultural note. Two items I want to bring to your attention, Gyorgy Konrad, author of “The Case Worker: among many other important works on the importance of Memory.
Nepszabadsag 10.05.2008 (Hungary)Does man need to remember? There is no question about [...]
Read More >>IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STATE OF JOURNALISM
By Tom Teicholz at 20 May, 2008, 2:36 pm
You could do worse than read Alissa Quart’s article ” Lost Media, Found Media” in the current Columbia Journalism Review.
She tells it like it is, and how it may be……
MUST READ: “The boy in the Moon” by Ian Brown
By Tom Teicholz at 8 May, 2008, 2:39 pm
Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist who has won about every award there is to win in Canada. He is on staff at The Globe and Mail in Toronto where he lives.
Earlier in the year Ian wrote a long series, “The boy in the moon,” about his severely disabled son Walker.It is a moving feature [...]
MUST READ: “The boy in the Moon” by Ian Brown
By Tom Teicholz at 8 May, 2008, 2:39 pm
Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist who has won about every award there is to win in Canada. He is on staff at The Globe and Mail in Toronto where he lives.
Earlier in the year Ian wrote a long series, “The boy in the moon,” about his severely disabled son Walker.It is a moving feature [...]
BUZZ ME UP ON HUFFPO!
By Tom Teicholz at 11 April, 2008, 3:54 pm
I’ve been posting on The Huffington Post this week (and forgetting to put the posts up here on my own blog!)
So go to The Huffington Post and in the corner search window type in “teicholz” that should bring up my items.
or you can click here
Then when you read them, hit the “buzz me up” item. [...]
Dylan wins Pulitzer (and I don’t)
By Tom Teicholz at 8 April, 2008, 9:29 am
The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday. A special citation was given for Bob Dylan. He didn’t even submit, but they decided to give him an award anyhow.
In the meantime, I must confess that for the first time in my life, an article of mine was submitted for consideration for the Pulitzer Prize in feature [...]