January 2008

Wince Country

January 31, 2008

Sometimes, wine country is “wince” country – as when one inadvertently refers to one’s sommelier as one’s “dealer.” An acquaintance had me over to preview galleys of his forthcoming aeronautics tome and offered me a glass of wine. This is standard procedure when dulling the critical faculties of those of us in the media and [...]

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To Live and Drive in LA

January 24, 2008

Whenever one meditates on the Hollywood “Dream Factory,” it’s difficult to resist making facile jabs at its inevitable nightmares. From the ground up, these include the fact that the entire place is paved, as if it were hermetically sealed the way that nuclear test sites are capped with cement to prevent glow-in-the-dark weeds from sprouting. [...]

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Hollywon’t Drive Again

January 17, 2008

At 2:30 p.m. last Wednesday, FilmArt3’s Raymond Daigle was burning our show reel to DVD. I had to hit the road in half an hour if I still hoped to pull into Abe Levy’s Hollywood Hills driveway in time to at least have a glass of wine before getting adequate beauty rest for the next [...]

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We could be villains

January 10, 2008

“Purple prose,” as they say, is the province of green writers, which I readily admit I once was. Purple and green were also the school colors of the continuation high school I attended for, like, half an hour, whose mascot was a goblin. In point of fact, it was the Green Goblin of Marvel Comics [...]

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