Huffington readers may recall my review last week of the stunning Mahler 8th "Symphony of a Thousand" conducted at the Shrine...
Posted February 13, 2012 | 02/13/12 04:16 PM ET
In the mid-80s I had a production deal and offices at the Warner Bros. studio in Burbank. I had sold them a screenplay called Heartbreak Ridge, which writer Jim Carabatsos and I had developed, and we were in the midst of a rewrite requested by studio head Mark Canton before...
5 Comments | Posted February 6, 2012 | 02/06/12 12:46 PM ET
My dear friend, Ginny Mancini, invited me to join her and guests in partaking of an exhibition...
Posted February 2, 2012 | 02/02/12 05:32 PM ET
Some years ago I produced a comedy movie in San Francisco. It was called Chu Chu & The Philly Flash and starred Carol Burnett and Alan Arkin. She played a one-woman band, dressed in a Carmen Miranda outfit...
30 Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 01/30/12 03:51 PM ET
Motown Record's founder, Berry Gordy, once told me that he thought Michael Jackson was the single greatest performer in show business history. Not true, of course, but he can be excused for...
Posted January 26, 2012 | 01/26/12 02:31 PM ET
A few months ago I interviewed Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, reporting on the book he had created after flying through space in the international space station for eleven days and shooting...
Posted January 25, 2012 | 01/25/12 01:48 PM ET
It is the dream of every restaurant reviewer to visit a new eatery and enjoy an extraordinary, entirely unexpected dining experience -- one which transcends the ordinary and ascends into the realm of the ethereal. Doesn't often happen... maybe once or twice every year or two at the most. It...
Posted January 18, 2012 | 01/18/12 11:33 AM ET
The momentum is building for The Artist to take all the marbles in the upcoming Oscar awards, with its three Golden Globes and BAFTA...
1 Comments | Posted January 17, 2012 | 01/17/12 02:55 PM ET
I don't know how many contributors to the Huffington Post belong to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts...
3 Comments | Posted January 12, 2012 | 01/12/12 12:35 PM ET
Molly Ivins was a fearless, funny and influential newspaper columnist who reigned over the New York/Texas journalism...
Posted January 4, 2012 | 01/04/12 10:02 AM ET
If you haven't been...
2 Comments | Posted December 26, 2011 | 12/26/11 10:24 AM ET
In my admittedly grandiose opinion, I have a literary bent... I am widely read and read widely. And I can't think of any book which has had a more powerful influence on my life and writing style...
Posted December 22, 2011 | 12/22/11 03:46 PM ET
We have two wonderful dining recommendations at opposite ends of Wilshire Blvd. In...
Posted December 19, 2011 | 12/19/11 03:28 PM ET
I...
Posted December 14, 2011 | 12/14/11 02:19 PM ET
Sounds like a strange idea, but somehow it is working and prospering, thanks to a charming woman named Miko who came here about...
Posted December 12, 2011 | 12/12/11 06:32 PM ET
Last night I went to an advance screening of Steven Spielberg's new film, The War Horse. My companion was noted journalist Caroline Graham (Vanity Fair, the New Yorker), who happens to come from Devon, the...
Posted December 8, 2011 | 12/08/11 12:00 PM ET
In my 50+ years of reviewing restaurants around the globe, I can't think of another occasion when the opening of a new restaurant has evoked more controversy than here in Los Angeles with the recent...
Posted December 2, 2011 | 12/02/11 06:08 PM ET
Jazz. My passion. Forever. When I was young, a jazz-playing piano player from Boston named George Wein called me one morning in 1954 and asked if I wanted to do publicity for a new jazz...
Posted November 29, 2011 | 11/29/11 02:13 PM ET
As Tom Sherak, the President of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, said this week in an email to all 6,000+ members of the Academy, "The 2011 Oscar season has officially begun." Since I have been a member of the Academy since 1971, when a film that I...
Posted November 22, 2011 | 11/22/11 05:59 PM ET
I once spent...
Posted February 16, 2012 | 02/16/12 04:40 PM ET