Archive for October, 2008
Best Halloween line
By Tom Teicholz at 31 October, 2008, 2:12 pm
I’m in a Hollyween costume clerk and I’m asking him for helping finding an ax to the head or an arrow through the head and he says: “Things through the head? We’re all sold out of those.”
Read More >>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 >>Turns out Jimmy Smits is Obama
By Tom Teicholz at 30 October, 2008, 10:42 am
Interesting article in this morning’s New York Times that reveals that writer Eli Attie interviewed David Axelrod, Obama;s chief stategist when he was coming up with Jimmy Smit’s character for the West Wing — and that Lawrence O’Donnell was thinking of the McCain of 2000 when coming up with Arnie Vinick the Republican contender.
Read More >>Now let’s combine the last two posts: What Google deal could mean for the Newspaper industry – Or my plan to rescue the news business
By Tom Teicholz at 29 October, 2008, 11:09 am
In today’s New York Times, David Carr’s Media column discusses the problems with the newspaper business along the lines I’ve mentioned in my earlier post — the problem being no that people don’t read the news — jsut that that they don’t do so in newspaper form, and don’t do so by buying a newspaper. […]
Read More >>GOOGLE makes BOOK Deal
By Tom Teicholz at 29 October, 2008, 10:50 am
Several years ago, Google began a controlversial program of scanning or digitizing books. They began by doing so with public domain books, and then library collections. They were sued by indiividual authors, publishing companies and the Author’s Guild. Google for their part insisted that they were hewing to their credo of “Do No Harm” — […]
Read More >>Bad day for Newsprint
By Tom Teicholz at 29 October, 2008, 10:42 am
Yesterday the Christian Science Monitor announced that it would cease publication of its weekday paper –after a centry of doing so. Time Inc is laying off 600 employees. The LA Times is laying off another 75 or so — the newsroom is half the size it once was. The Newark Star Ledger is cutting 405 […]
Read More >>My New career: Will Call ticket window operator
By Tom Teicholz at 28 October, 2008, 11:16 am
Friday night found me attending a benefit concert at the Shrine auditorium. The cause is to find a cure for Juvenile diabetes. The Performers included Demis Rousssos and Ishtar Alabina. When I arrived at the Shrine auditorium, there was a mob scene outside. Apparently there were not enough people working in the box office to […]
Read More >>In which I join Facebook and enter the 21rst Century
By Tom Teicholz at 27 October, 2008, 11:32 am
I now have a Facebook page, Tom Teicholz, and have create a Tommywood Group page. Check them out – and let the revolution begin!
Read More >>reading and avoiding
By Tom Teicholz at 24 October, 2008, 2:49 pm
On Nextbook: a podcast about Mad Men, a link to a Heeb piece on Spiegelman, a posting about contemporary Jewish music by observant Jews, an essary by David Grossman about books that inspired him (discovered that Grossman’s father like mine came from Galicia in Poland, just outside Lemberg (Lviv).
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