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GOOD AS (Jonathan) GOLD
By Tom Teicholz at 13 July, 2007, 12:53 pm
“The plov is great.”
Jonathan Gold, the LA Weekly’s restaurant critic and the 2007 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, e-mailed me the above about Uzbekistan (the restaurant on La Brea, not the country), where we were planning to meet.
He assumed, of course, that I knew what plov is — I didn’t then, but I [...]
Conversations with David Mamet and Nathan Englander
By Tom Teicholz at 11 July, 2007, 2:31 pm
Conversations with David Mamet and Nathan Englander:
DAVID MAMET
As part of the Nextbook Festival of ideas, held at UCLA on April 22nd, I interviewed Pulitzer prize winning playwright, screenwriter, novelist and essayist David Mamet. Nextbook had chosen the title of “Make Believe Jews” for our conversation and I took that to mean a conversation about [...]
Bruce Teicholz, my father, always said he wasn’t a hero.
By Tom Teicholz at 18 June, 2007, 2:53 pm
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He left his mark fighting in the Shoah, spearheading postwar relief efforts, aiding migration to Palestine - and on me
My father always said he wasn’t a hero. “All the heroes are dead,” he used to say. He said [...]
The Salonistas of LA
By Tom Teicholz at 14 June, 2007, 10:44 am
Great ideas and great literature are being championed, promoted and supported in Los Angeles, in public and private forums, in private homes and public spaces, through the age-old medium of conversation.
Several years ago, the Jewish Museum in New York mounted an exhibition called “The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons.” Focusing on women [...]
Mark Rydell’s Passion
By Tom Teicholz at 31 May, 2007, 5:15 pm
Summer movies provide thrills, chills and laughs and are more noted for their special effects and star actors than for the acting and the seriousness of their purpose. Which makes this a good time to visit with Mark Rydell, a man whose more than 50-year career as an actor, director and producer speaks of his [...]
Read More >>Whose Nuremberg Laws Are They?
By Tom Teicholz at 19 May, 2007, 2:59 pm
Sometimes we take for granted what is right in front of us. Consider that one of the most important documents of the 20th century is right here in Los Angeles, accessible and on view for all to visit. Few realize it; fewer still appreciate it.
Although originals of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the [...]
The Next Conversation
By Tom Teicholz at 27 April, 2007, 12:12 pm
Can a conversation inspire a city? A people?
Nextbook, an organization devoted to Jewish literature, culture and ideas (www.nextbook.org) came to L.A. last weekend, staging a full day festival at UCLA’s MacGowan and Freud theaters called “Acting Jewish: Film, TV, Comedy, Music,” the first of what it hopes to be an annual event.
According to Nextbook Director [...]
‘Rebel with a Cause’ (Andrew Stevens)
By Tom Teicholz at 13 April, 2007, 10:54 am
Andrew Stevens, a longtime Beverly Hills resident, successful businessman, active philanthropist and Hungarian Holocaust survivor, is hard to resist. He’s in his late 70s but looks 15 years younger — not because of his hair, which is darker than nature permits, but because of his energy, drive and determination. He has a quality I find [...]
Read More >>Treasures of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
By Tom Teicholz at 1 April, 2007, 3:29 pm
Can you tell the story of a people by its music?
Last November, the classical music label Naxos released the 50th CD of its American Classics series, music from the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, so the time has come to give the archive its props (just imagine Randy Jackson saying: Yo! Yo! Dog, check [...]
FOODIE-ISM (Barry Glassner & “The Gospel of Food”)
By Tom Teicholz at 16 March, 2007, 5:05 pm
This time of year finds me on the treadmill in the mornings, futzing around the gym, taking walks around the neighborhood, eating lots of grilled chicken salads. I’m in training — not for the recent Los Angeles Marathon, but for the marathon weekend in May when my wife and I travel to another city with [...]
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