Intermission at The New Beverly Cinema 7/24/07
The New Beverly Cinema has been many things over the years, but until Sherman Torgan came along it never seemed to be the same thing for very long. In the 1930s it was a vaudeville theater. In the 1940s, mobster Mickey Cohen turned it into a nightclub called Slapsie [...]

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I obsessively check up on how many people are viewing this blog and why, partly because I’m an attention whore and partly because I’m curious to know what people are responding to even if they don’t leave a comment. It turns out for example, a lot of people have been searching for the name of the [...]

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This week in wide release:

The Simpsons Movie. I love the Simpsons and yet I’ve never felt like I needed a movie about them. They’re still on TV in new episodes and in regular reruns and this whole thing feels about 10 years too late. I assumed everyone felt the same way until I saw the [...]

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