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Barry Hannah R.I.P.
By Tom Teicholz at 3 March, 2010, 3:50 pm
Middlebury College in Vermont has a 4-1-4 structure and January was the month when you could spend your time in the pursuit of a solitary subject or a frivolous one or both. Barry Hannah who did a stint as a teacher in the English dept at Middlebury was our advisor for a winter term project [...]
Read More >>The Genius that was Gertrude Berg
By Tom Teicholz at 1 February, 2010, 12:55 pm
Yesterday the UCLA Film and Television Archives had a showing of remastered episodes of “The Goldbergs” the Gertrude Berg TV program that Aviva Kempner featured in her recent documentary “Yoohoo Mrs Goldberg” about Berg. A panel about Berg featured writer producer Margaret Nagle, as well as film and TV professor Vincent Brook moderated by journalist [...]
Read More >>J.D. Salinger, novelist of modern anomie, dead at 91
By Tom Teicholz at 28 January, 2010, 2:02 pm
J. D. Salinger, the novelist whose “Catcher in the Rye,” was the gateway drug for a generation of teenagers, readers and writers resisting the social conformity, and who became almost as famous for being reclusive as he was for his novel and his collections of short stories, died at his home in New Hampshire, at [...]
Read More >>Ringo Starr at the Grammy Museum backed by Ben Harper
By Tom Teicholz at 21 January, 2010, 4:05 pm
What an amazing experience it was! Ringo still very much Ringo — quick, funny, sweet and tough in a room of about 200 people at the Grammy Museum downtown.
Ringo has a new album out called “Y not” that he is out promoting and talking about. It is the first album that Ringo has produced himself [...]
Read More >>light posting –if at all — until 2010
By Tom Teicholz at 21 December, 2009, 10:15 am
Happy holidays — I will be posting lightly if at all between now and picking it up again next year.
Read More >>Judges reject Demjanjuk defense motions; more Dutch witnesses testify
By Tom Teicholz at 21 December, 2009, 10:14 am
The Demjanjuk trial in Munich resumed this morning after a several week break with the Judge rejecting the defense motions to end the trial based on the extradition or claims of double jepoardy.
Demjanjuk appeared in court in a wheelchair, keeping his eyes closed for much of the hearing. He reappeared later on lying on a [...]
Work may set you free…but crime doesn’t pay
By Tom Teicholz at 21 December, 2009, 10:00 am
The sign that stood over the entrance of Auschwitz saying “arbeit macht frei” has been recovered in Poland. Five men were arrested, who, according to reports, hoped to sell the sign for money.
See the cnn.com story:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/21/auschwitz.sign.found/
Los Angeles man says his father was alleged Demjanjuk victim
By Tom Teicholz at 18 December, 2009, 12:03 pm
Saul Lisky, who was 6 when his father was killed in a DP camp in Germany — had a shock of recognition when he heard that Demjanjuk was being investigated for possibly running over a man with a truck in a DP camp in German — he realized it was his father.
The full article is [...]
DISNEY ON ICE — A GREAT TIME HAD BY ALL
By Tom Teicholz at 18 December, 2009, 11:28 am
I was a little concerned that my daughter and her friend, tweens already disdainful of all parent-chosen entertainment, would find the DISNEY ON ICE show, as they say, “boring!” or too babyish — but they were enchanted.
There was a Mickey and Minnie opening to the show that they could have done without but the retellings [...]
German prosecutors looking into whether Demjanjuk ran over a Jewish man in 1947
By Tom Teicholz at 17 December, 2009, 4:27 pm
I know it sounds strange but one of my trusted correspondents sent me this Jpost.com article:
‘Demjanjuk ran over a Jew in 1947′
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Evidence that John Demjanjuk, 89, may have deliberately run over and killed a Jew while driving a truck in Germany is being studied by police, a prosecutor said [...]
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