by | Jul 18, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
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,...
by | Jul 17, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from the LA Times
by | Jun 27, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
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...
by | Jun 20, 2009 | Literary News, Los Angeles
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...
by | Jun 10, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
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...
by | Jun 8, 2009 | Literary News, Los Angeles
from The LA Times Susan Farley / For The Times COLUMN ONE The typist’s tale of ‘Last Tycoon’ Years after ‘Gatsby,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s secretary got to witness the second act of an author who didn’t believe in them. By David...