It finally happened – we were evicted! After 16 years in our offices at 5199 E. Pacific Coast Highway, a transient moved into a small storage room we utilize in the stairwell between the fifth and sixth floors.
Even in the brightest most beloved environment, when dark behavior is revealed, stellar reputations can be tarnished and dimmed. With a surface of polished, glittering gold, who would even think to step forward to reveal the darkness lurking below such a sparkling facade?
”She Loves Me” is a musical set in the Depression Era, circa 1930s. Two sales people – Georg and Amalia – employed at Maraczek’s Parfumerie, seem to expel malodorous contempt of one another when face-to-face.
Rarely do I write my Beachcombing column two weeks in advance, but the last two columns generated a bit of a firestorm that was not anticipated, so the need is there to expand on my comments and initially publish them here – online.
Howard Rantner’s (Adam Sandler) moral compass is spinning in 360º circles at the speed of a moon rocket. He is a diamond trader of questionable reputation, a husband and father with little interest in being good at either, a compulsive gambler and a passionate lover to his two mistresses.
Straight from Broadway—”What the Constitution Means to Me”—which has won awards for Best New American Play, is now onstage at Los Angeles’s Mark Taper forum though Feb. 23.
