It’s SHOWTIME for this Cantor
By Tom Teicholz at 16 October, 2008, 12:25 pm
At the dawn of Hollywood talkies, “The Jazz Singer” told the story of a young Jewish man’s conflict between a career in the entertainment industry and being a cantor. The sacred and the profane seemed two poles whose opposing magnetic draws tore the protagonist apart. But that was 1927.
Today, more than 90 years later, I [...]
KCRW gives us ‘The Business’
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:08 am
In an underground office on the campus of Santa Monica College, Claude
Brodesser-Akner is working with his producer, Matt Holzman, and
associate producer, Darby Maloney, to describe the current status of
the Oscar broadcast — and work in a pun.
Finally, Brodesser-Akner says, with some satisfaction, “The Oscars are mired.”
Welcome to the world of “The Business,” a half-hour [...]