Makin’ Whoopee With Eddie Cantor
He’s not a household name today (though his character appears in episodes of “Boardwalk Empire”), but Eddie Cantor was the original renaissance man of the entertainment world in the early 20th century, conquering vaudeville, Broadway, records, Hollywood, radio and TV. Cantor began in vaudeville in 1907 in New York, moved to the Great White Way […]
A Real Hollywood Flop
Developers of The Millennium Project in Hollywood are proposing to build two 50+ story twin skyscrapers — one on each side of the 12-story historic Capitol Records Building. It is designed to have over 400 apartments, 100,000 sq. feet of office space, as well as restaurants, sports center, a 200 room hotel, and retail space. […]
Washington’s Fiscal Shenanigans: Americans Take It on the Chin … Again
Once again, the L.A. Times’ Michael Hiltzik has come to the defense of the middle and lower classes as the wealthy and corporate empowered special interests still call the tunes in Washington. Under the headline “The middle class languishes as the super-rich thrive: Washington’s proposed budget solutions are ever more irrelevant to the […]
The People Speak: Howard Zinn
With the death on January 27 of historian Howard Zinn (author of “A People’s History of the United States,” the first book to present American history through the eyes of working people rather than political and economic elites), we wanted to call to your attention the release of Zinn’s DVD “The People Speak” on February […]
Save the Century Plaza Hotel
On June 23, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson attended a $500-a-plate Democratic Party fundraiser at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. A peaceful anti-Vietnam War demonstration assembled outside the hotel; I was one among approximately 10,000 protesters — representing groups ranging from Another Mother for Peace to Students for a Democratic Society to Trotsky […]
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