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Finding That Song
Back in 1998, I was driving down Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles when I spotted a man lying on his back smack dab in the middle of the street; one leg was splayed onto the westbound lane of Pico, the other onto the eastbound. I got out of my car, and as I approached I saw ...
Hollywood's Blog Smog
New idiom presents conflict of interest Andrew Sullivan observed recently that “blogging is writing out loud." He continued: “A blog is not so much daily writing as hourly writing. Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports is to athletics; more free-form, more accident-prone, more alive." Because of all this, the relationship between blogging and traditional ...
Dorothea Holt Redmond Designer Helped Create the Look of Several Hitchcock Films Passes
Dorothea Holt Redmond broke ground in 1938 as the first woman to invade the “heretofore exclusively male field” of motion-picture production design, at David O. Selznick’s studio, The Times reported that year. She came to be regarded as one of the most talented illustrators in the industry. Redmond worked on seven Hitchcock films, as well as ...
Phil Spector's Second Murder Trial Winds Down as Jurors Allowed to Consider Lesser Charges
Six years after actress Lana Clarkson died of a gunshot wound at Phil Spector's hilltop mansion, lawyers will once again deliver final arguments to a jury in the legendary music producer's murder trial. The question hanging over these proceedings is whether this jury, unlike the one at Spector's first trial 18 months ago, will be able ...
John McLaughlin and Chick Corea's Five Peace Band
Based on first impressions, the '70s were back at Royce Hall on Thursday night. Led by two titans of jazz fusion, that controversial sub-genre that began with Miles Davis' “In a Silent Way," John McLaughlin and Chick Corea opened their North American tour with an ensemble dubbed the Five Peace Band. The UCLA event brought the ...
Kalman Bloch Clarinetist for L.A. Philharmonic
Kalman Bloch, 95, principal clarinetist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic for nearly 45 years, died March 12 at his home in Los Angeles, according to his daughter, Michele Zukovsky, who is now one of the orchestra's co-principal clarinetists. Bloch was born in New York on May 30, 1913, and attended Columbia College. He studied clarinet with ...
David Carradine: Still Punchy After All These Years
It's still early, but it's pretty safe to say that the award for the “Craziest Post- Screening Panel Discussion of the Year". It has to go to David Carradine and Haskell Wexler, who got to show everyone who stayed after an American Cinematheque screening of Hal Ashby's “Bound for Glory" just what it must've been like ...
IATSE Ratifies Three-Year Contract That Cuts Health Benefits
The union, which represents more than 35,000 film and TV workers, fends off a campaign by dissidents who accused their leaders of selling them short at the bargaining table. A union representing more than 35,000 film and TV workers has approved a new three- year contract, fending off a vigorous opposition campaign by dissidents who accused ...
Jazz Bakery Loses Lease Seeks New Site
May 31 will be the club's last day at Helms Bakery complex. A fall reopening is planned. Wistful notes continue to flow at the Jazz Bakery. But their spontaneous and tuneful cadence will soon be idle as the club, one of L.A.'s most venerable jazz institutions, prepares to close its Culver City location May 31. “The ...
Saxman Boney James Tops Billboard Charts for 5th Consecutive Week
James Kicks Off National Tour March 25th, 2009 Including Headline Show at Legendary Hollywood Bowl Send One Your Love, the new CD from sax icon Boney James (released on Concord Records on February 3, 2009) has claimed the top spot on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart for the fifth week in a row with ...
