Archive for February, 2010
Stage Door
In 1936, when Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s comedy and homage to The Theater (that would be Broadway) showed the divide between the legit stage and the vulgar movie biz in Hollywood (an industry where “You only have to learn a line at a time and they just keep taking it until you get…
A Paranoid in Reverse: Revisiting J.D. Salinger
If originality is, as Vladimir Nabokov suggests, the true measure of greatness in an artist, then the argument can be made that J.D. Salinger towers over most American writers of the past half-century. Few writers anywhere have ever been more widely or more passionately read. Few…
Eli’s Egoland?
So sorry, Santa Monica. Apologies, Beverly Hills. The jewel you have coveted and negotiated for — billionaire Eli Broad’s proposed museum, which will house his contemporary art collection — may not alight upon your city after all.
Politicians in those two citi…
Public Unwelcome at Grand Avenue
Waiting for Escorts in Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry to show up last week was like waiting for the glitzy Grand Avenue hotel-shop-condos project to finally launch: No one could say exactly when or if it might happen. As the scheduled 10 a.m. start time for the January 25 Grand Ave…
Film Costumes
Art of the Motion Picture Costume Design includes costumes from more than 20 2009 films, including Nine, The Young Victoria, Julie & Julia, Stark Trek and An Education..
Tuesdays-Saturdays. Starts: Feb. 9. Continues through April 17, 2010…
African-American Photography Exhibit
The Black List: Volumes One, Two, and Three features photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and KCRW film host Elvis Mitchell’s photographs of prominent African-Americans, including Chris Rock, Angela Davis and Guns ‘N Roses’ Slash.
Wednesdays-Sundays. Starts: Feb. 3. Continue…