Hello dear readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of Silent Witnesses, the solo show about a group of holocaust child survivors — now playing at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks. Silent...
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Pauline Adamek
“The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete” – Los Angeles film review
A Boy’s Dark World Illuminated The title of director George Tillman Jr.’s latest effort, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, is not to be taken literally, though you might think so, since it refers to the struggle...
Deborah Klugman
“Gravity” – a luminous performance from Sandra Bullock, lost in space – film review
Ever the architect of her relatively luminous career, A-list star and sometime producer, Sandra Bullock, follows her highly successful broad comedy buddy movie, The Heat, with a complete volte-face. Gravity is an...
“Sunshine Boys” Neil Simon’s classic restaged with Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch – Los Angeles theater review
Legendary comedy writer Neil Simon’s 1972 play The Sunshine Boys has an excellent premise: two old vaudevillian stars who worked together for over 40 years, but who haven’t spoken in over a decade, are reunited for a TV...
“Creature Feature” – Los Angeles feature article Universal monsters
Creature Feature How a flotilla of bloodcurdling creations—beginning in 1923—gave birth to a monster of a movie studio in the Valley. Vampires, zombies, aliens… Horror movies and creature features never...