You Can Count on Me
It’s hard for me to talk about my favorite movies, maybe because the reasons behind the choices are difficult to explain. I am always afraid I’ll get the response, “Oh, I saw it. It was OK,” or even worse, this question: “Really?” The short answer is I have a lot of favorite movies. It is easier for me to choose favorite directors than movies, maybe because their best ideas are better fleshed out through a career than one feature. One of those favorite directors is…
Quickie Review: Arise and Sing!
Yes, they’re celebrities, but can they act? This week the L.A. Theatre Works puts on Clifford Odets’ 1935 masterpiece Awake and Sing! at the Skirball Center in the Sepulveda Pass. This is a part of a weekly series of radio broadcasts for NPR and features some big names. For example, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Kind, Jane Kaczmarek, and even Ben Gazzara, Mr. Lebowski from The Big Lebowski. But names don’t matter to me. Acting does. That written, Awake and Sing! is such a tight, well-constructed play,…
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