2008
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Thursday in the Dark With Jorge
I like going to the movies with my family, because for a change, it’s two hours of non-awkward silence. So this Thanksgiving, my parents, uncle, and I went to see Rachel Getting Married. It’s a heavy but very nice piece of work from Jonathan Demme, with solid performances all around. Yet for the entire film, […]
The Elevator at UCLA medical center
One can only imagine the things said that caused this sign to be created.
an underrated gem
Sometime in the mid 1980s, my partner Mike and I wrote a well-crafted comedy for Columbia about a juror who falls in love with a defendant. But Hollywood doesn’t want well-crafted comedies from arrogant twenty-four year-olds. And Mike got into a relationship with the development executive, then broke up with her just before we turned […]
Buy American
The Cadillac dealership near me is having a huge sale on Escalades. They’re like driving your living room around (if you have a large comfortable living room with a lazy boy and every electronic device you need within reach).
Decree
Citigroup, the ailing US financial giant, shocked the market yesterday by announcing that it would cut 52,000 jobs by the second half of next year. Vikram Pandit, the bank’s under-pressure chief executive, said yesterday that the total number of employees would shrink to about 300,000 by the end of June. Mr Pandit announced the cost-cutting […]
Cone Dracula
This week on True Blood: The gang learns you can kill a vampire by driving a wooden traffic cone through its heart.
Hypocritical Oath
As a past contributor, I received a mailing from the fine organization Doctors Without Borders, which included a free world map: There was only problem: There are borders ALL OVER THIS MAP! I just don’t know who to trust anymore.
Dixie Cup
On Sunday I took Isa to a birthday party of her friend. The dad and step-mother happen to live in the Hollywood Hills. The expansive, modernist house has all the trappings one would think a house like this would have: a gorgeous view (see the ocean on a clear day!), palm trees, celebrity neighbors, a […]
Jack Silbert, curator