Beck interviews Waits

from Beck.com Tom Waits x Beck Hansen : Pt. 1 Irrelevant Topics in a new section featuring conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction. For the first in this series of conversations,...

The Man Who Gave Us HAROLD AND MAUDE

from The Los Angeles Times   Hal Ashby, turbulent genius of the ’70s   AMPAS A special Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salutes Oscar winning film editor and director Hal Ashby on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater...

Rat Press Re-dressed

from Shelf-Awareness Rat Press: Hollywood Director Moonlights as Publisher By day Brett Ratner is a Hollywood producer, director and photographer. At night, he moonlights as the publisher of Rat Press. “It’s a one-man operation,” he said. “I do...

Top Hat of Couture

from the NY Observer The Sultan of Stains By Spencer Morgan John Mahdessian prefers not to be called a dry cleaner. “That’s a fuckin’ insult,” he said, between pulls off a Marlboro Light on a recently Sunday morning. “That’s like calling a world-renowned surgeon a...