NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS…
THE LAST ACTION HEROES: THE TRIUMPHS, FLOPS AND FEUDS OF HOLLYWOOD’S KINGS OF CARNAGE by Nick De Semlyen (Crown)…
HIGHLIGHTS OF MALTINFEST
My family and I love film festivals, but I never dreamed of staging one myself. That idea emanated from…
GOING GAGA FOR CONSTANCE…
At one time she was Hollywood’s highest-paid star. Today, Constance Bennett’s name is known only to the most devoted…
CELEBRATING OSCAR LEVANT
Oscar Levant was one of a kind: a piano prodigy, Gershwin acolyte, songwriter, noted wit, radio and television personality,…
INSPIRATION IN A NEIGHBORHOOD…
Aaron Wolf grew up attending the historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. It had special meaning because his…
THE ‘CASABLANCA’ WE MAY…
Unlike some lesser-known movies from Hollywood’s golden age, Casablanca enjoys enduring appeal and continues to produce substantial revenue for the studio…
FROM ‘SAMSON’ TO ‘SHANE’:…
It’s a matter of record that Jonny Greenwood earned an Oscar nomination for scoring Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread…but a…
