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One-year married, and one wedding announcement revised 12 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm
I probably spend too much time marking milestones. I often attribute significance to dates, especially when I'm able to choose both the event and the date. For instance: Jan. 1, 1995: Quit smoking on...
"Casting By": An underappreciated job and the woman who changed it and Hollywood 6 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences made history when it elected Cheryl Boone Isaacs as its new president, making her the third woman and first African-American to lead the organi...
Studying The Brady Bunch finally pays off 31 Jul 2013 | 11:51 pm
Today Indiewire published a piece I wrote about the portrayal of kids coming-of-age on The Brady Bunch. It's the third in a series of five stories they're running this week to mark tomorrow night's la...
Joseph Losey's "The Servant" expert take on "class warfare" 30 Jul 2013 | 12:17 am
More violent than any of the tentpole summer blockbusters at the local multiplex, Joseph Losey's 1963 film The Servant examines the diminished and disintegrating British class system of its era. This ...
PAUSE FOR PODCASTS: An Introduction, and Goodbye to "It's All Politics" 26 Jul 2013 | 12:31 am
I once loved to drive. During my eight years living in Los Angeles, I regularly drove myself home to San Francisco to see my family. It didn't take much longer than flying onec I accounted for getting...
Jumping back into the pool: Writing is hard -- an "Uh-Huh" moment 23 Jul 2013 | 02:54 am
Several years ago, I started having not-quite-epiphanies: Moments of realization in which something I already knew becomes consciously absorbed. I was not having giant light bulb moments; these weren'...
<b><i>Chaplin: The Musical</b></i> All Falls Down Right from the Start 4 Jan 2013 | 11:16 pm
I will stipulate that compressing the life of one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th Century is no easy task. Satisfying all audiences is impossible. The creators of a big, mean...
Happy New Year! The “Evolving Traditions” Edition 2 Jan 2013 | 08:15 am
On Aug. 12, 2012, I got married. That alone marks 2012 as a fantastic, fabulous, phenomenal, momentous year in The Life of Aaron. But otherwise, 2012 disappointed the hell out of me. It certainly was ...
<i>A Civil War Christmas</i>: A fascinating, serious and fun pageant for the ages 8 Dec 2012 | 08:20 pm
The Playbill for Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas -- which opened Tuesday at New York Theater Workshop – contains a “production history” timeline starting with the November 1860 election of Abraham...
<i>Checkers</i>: Nixon's most likable moment played out less-favorably 3 Dec 2012 | 08:50 am
I guess I just expected so much more. The story behind the story of Richard Nixon’s infamous “Checkers” speech; Terry Kinney in the director’s chair and the very talented Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn ...
