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Janusz Kaminski Presents VANISHING POINT

Last night I went to the Bing Theater at LACMA to watch a screening of Richard C. Sarafian’s 1971 film Vanishing Point followed by Q&A with the incredible Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.  He’s Steven Spielberg’s go-to DP.  Together they’ve amazed us with films like Schindler’s List, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, […]

Pulp Shakespeare at Theatre Asylum (photo by Rick Clark; copyright 2011, LA Times)

Pulp Shakespeare

My Introduction to Acting class at LMU requires that we attend two plays over the course of the semester. The first play I saw was End Days at the Odyssey Theatre, a comedy about family, faith and renewal, with a cast of characters that included an Elvis impersonator, Jesus Christ and Steven Hawkings.  Odyssey Theatre […]