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"History Happens" (David Hare's "Stuff Happens")
After the intermission, the lights start to dim. A lone woman is on stage. She waits for the audience to settle in. She is well dressed, well groomed. She begins: “For the Palestinians, there is no other context. We see everything in the context of Palestine.†In the June 26 Los Angeles Times’ Art Notes, […]
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Heart to Hart
A few weeks ago, the Geffen Playhouse showcased a memorable special event: “Here’s to Life,†Kitty Carlisle Hart’s cabaret-style one-woman show, accompanied by her musical director, David Lewis. Hart, 94, performed for a little over an hour, reminiscing and singing songs from some of her late friends such as Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, […]
"Old Lessons Never Die" (Abby Mann's "Judgment" in Long Beach) 6-17-05
If, as the bard wrote, “All the world’s a stage,” then let me direct you to a current production that, though seeming of another time, and another era, and based on a film more than 40 years old, offers enduring truths that seem particularly relevant to current events. “Judgment At Nuremberg” Abby Mann’s courtroom drama […]
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Agents of Charity (Jewish Family Service Gala honoring Kurtzman, Lonner, Kurtzman)
As I write this The Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Los Angeles’ annual gala to be held on June 1, 2005 is a few days away. The honorees are CAA agent Rick Kurtzman; his brother, Fox business affairs executive Howard Kurtzman; and their brother-in-law, William Morris Agent David Lonner (married to their sister Janet). JFS […]
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Tommywood: "Light of Day" (Robert Weingarten at the Weisman Museum)
As I drove toward Malibu the other day, Santa Monica Bay was anything but uniform, a shifting collage of textures and hues of blue. As the sun glinted off the water, I wondered: How does one describe the special quality of Santa Monica light? How do you explain it? How do you quantify it? To […]
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Tommywood: "Raymond's End" (or Phil Rosenthal: Deli Lama) 5-06-05
Phil Rosenthal, the creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond,†which will end its nine-year run on CBS on May 16, and I are fressing at Barney Greengrass in Beverly Hills high atop Barney’s Department Store. It’s not that eating sable is the way I mourn (how is it that a fish can be named after a […]
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