For those Angelenos looking for a respite from million-dollar hype and \”Happy Meal\” tie-ins to studio blockbusters, late autumn is also a time when a flurry of small, offbeat film festivals grace local movie screens.
Errol Morris, the pre-eminent documentarian of the bizarre, ambled onstage at the Bing Theater recently, looking scruffy. He was wearing a rumpled blue windbreaker, wrinkled slacks and a wicked smile.
Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer to the stars, picks up the phone. \”Jew speaking,\” he says.
Emmy Award-winning Vilanch, 51, is one of the drollest Jews in Hollywood.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Three years ago, the BBC decided to make a television documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1956 Sinai campaign.\n\nThe filmmakers were soon stymied in their search for one top-secret document: the Protocol of Sevres, in which leaders of the three temporary allies coordinated their plans to seize the Suez Canal, five days before the actual attack on Oct. 29, 1956.\n\n
One evening in 1962, a fresh-faced Sheriff\’s deputy, Sherman Block, busted comic Lenny Bruce for obscenity. The comic\’s crime: Saying the word \”schmuck.\”
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
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