In this charming romantic comedy, Manny (Dominic Comperatore), an aspiring Greek-American screenwriter, falls hard for the beautiful, virginal Eve (Erin Neill),...
So, there we were, trying to look as cool and unfazed as Hole’s ERIC ERLANDSON, who was standing right behind us, at THE VIPER ROOM for P.J. HARVEY (pictured)!!!! Yow! Then, remembering we’re not cool, we became giddy with excitement at seeing such a stellar talent in the little club......
Photo by Pennie Smith RADIOHEAD Kid A (Capitol) “Hey man, slow down, slow down,” head Radiohead Thom Yorke pleaded in “The Tourist,” the concluding track on 1997’s OK Computer. It wasn’t that Yorke couldn’t keep up, it’s that he resented being pulled in a direction he didn’t want to go......
All my life I wanted to get to a place where I never had to get out of bed. In January 1998, I got my wish. I was supine in the bone-marrow-transplant unit of City of Hope. A little case of CML leukemia. Lying there, I frequently looked out the......
Photo by Craig SchwartzIt doesn’t matter that the Getty Center’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium is in itself a conventional space reminiscent of everybody’s high school assembly hall. It acquires its magic through proximity, the presence nearby of rooms full of Renaissance stained glass or 17th-century drawings. Hearing music in that......
Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter It is not entirely true that members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors ripped off their clothes and snake-danced naked down Temple Street after the Service Employees International Union’s Local 660 members returned to work last week. Not quite. “Giddy isn’t really the......
In the end, Al Gore went back to the only thing that had worked for him during this long, frustrating campaign year. He returned to the themes of his Democratic Convention acceptance speech of August, the speech that had propelled him into the lead for nearly two months. Once again,......
The other day, casting our usual furtive glance at the L.A. X....Press curbside news box, we were startled to see starlet Kate Hudson — fresh-faced, golden-haired and (most crucially) bare-shouldered — smiling at us from the cover amid banners promoting “midnight rendezvous,” “adult services,” “LAX 24 hrs singles guide” and......
Photo by Jenafer Gillingham Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to assemble a roundtable of black female directors, especially one in which each participant had a feature film under her belt. Almost all extant full-length films directed by black women — not just in the United States, but......
Below is a short list of websites, phone numbers and other contact information for resources and organizations related to black film. The Acapulco Black Film Festival. (www.abff.com/splash/splash.htm) From its Web site: "The Acapulco Black Film Festival is a celebration of the cinematic work of Black filmmakers and artists. The ABFF......
