arts and entertainment
Lights! Cameras! Action! Academy Museum features Hollywood history, hoopla and inclusivity
October 1, 2021The Motion Picture Academy’s latest creation is walking a tightrope, mixing showbiz pizzazz with world cinema and a reflectiveness on the medium’s origins and power.
Read more‘I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce’: Ronnie Marmo channels the standup philosopher
September 30, 2021As a standup comic with a philosophical slant, Lenny was a pre-Social Media forerunner of the free speech cause.
Read more‘Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster,’ a nonfiction creature feature
September 24, 2021You don’t have to be a horror fan to enjoy Thomas Hamilton’s documentary Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (I’m not and I did).
Read moreDavid Byrne’s ‘America’s Utopia’ encourages global concern for our fellow human beings
September 23, 2021Less is more, keep it simple, untethered. All of these phrases accurately describe one of the most beautiful films I have seen in a long time.
Read more‘Lizastrata’: Make eros, not thanatos, says Aristophanes
September 15, 2021The Troubadour Theater Company’s uproarious mounting of Lizastrata at the Getty Villa’s amphitheater is the latest of countless versions of Aristophanes’ Greek classic Lysistrata.
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