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Tag Archives: Los Angeles Times
Should We Judge Other People’s Orgies?
Laura Frost is a professor of English at Yale University and the author of "Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism." She writes in the Los Angeles Times: Mosley’s marathon session with Mistress Switch is as British as the … Continue reading
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Tagged automobile assn, british aristocrats, british men, concentration camps, corporal punishment, eichmann trial, figurehead, heir to the throne, hitler and mussolini, jerusalem film festival, jewish men, literary modernism, Los Angeles Times, marathon session, moral imperatives, parliamentary democracy, pulp novels, stalags, stiff upper lip, yale university
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Harvard Educated, Berkeley Law Grad Disco Queen Hounded
The David Karnes (not the one who helped find two cops amid the wreckage of 9/11 at ground zero) who wrote this heartbreaking op/ed in the Los Angeles Times is the gay disco queen Millie behind discosound.com. Millie at Her … Continue reading
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Tagged bomb squad, David Karnes, disco queen, gay disco, gay pride, hill democrats, holiday card, Los Angeles Times, millie amp, new york daily news, new york post, page memo, page pamphlet, recruiting station, smoking gun, tabloid headlines, taunts, times square, victory pose, york daily news
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Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe by Lisa Alcalay Klug
From Amazon.com: "It’s never been hipper to be Jewish." –VH1 Cool Jew does for gefilte fish and matzah balls what the Preppy Handbook did for plaid and polo–only with much more chutzpah. Cool Jew covers everything Hebraic from womb to … Continue reading
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Sleaze, Equivalence, Bias
Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: Sleaze, Equivalence, Bias (Pictured: Notorious 1982 New York Post headline. Twenty-six years later, the Post, with the exception of its pro-Israel editorial page, is still sleazy.) A few observations on media coverage of … Continue reading
Posted in The Jewish Press
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L.A. Herald Examiner Almost 20 Year Reunion
Here’s video of the whole program. Daily News Photos Stills: Jim Bellows Jim Bellows Andrea Raymond Joe Morgenstern, WSJ film critic Alex Ben Block Mary Ann Dolan, Jim Bellows Mary Ann Dolan, Jim Bellows Bobby Shriver, Alex Ben Block Jim … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, LA Press Club
Tagged blogger, bobby shriver, breakstone, cathy seipp, don frederick, dsc, feminine characteristics, film critic, girls women, hollywood ca, jim bellows, joe morgenstern, los angeles daily news, Los Angeles Times, lutes, mayor villaraigosa, nbsp, old geezer, page girls, peter rainer, photos, rough edges, santa monica city, shuman, tony castro, wedding ring, wife kaye, women journalists, wsj, year reunion
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HOLLYWOOD, CA. Los Angeles Daily News Editor, Ron Kaye, former KCBS political editor, Linda Breakstone, Los Angeles Times’ “Top of the Ticket” editor, Don Frederick, and Santa Monica City Councilmember, Bobby Shriver, will join moderator and show business historian, Alex … Continue reading
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