FOREWORD BY STAN LERNER: Downtownster does not celebrate its first birthday until February, but I still feel compelled to post the TEN BEST downtownster blogs of 2009. And while I think all of our blogs have been great, these are the ones that readers read the most and gave us the highest level of props [...]
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HOLLYWOOD – A LOVE AFFAIR
October 8, 2009 – 10:59 am
The LA Times recently published a piece that pronounced the recent rash of Hollywood Executives to be shown the door the best slasher story in years. The LA Times of course left out the second best slasher story, that being all of the slashing that went on at the LA Times, but that would be [...]
An Education – Movie Review
October 8, 2009 – 9:46 am
As the school bell rings the start of another day, let me say this – AN EDUCATION is some kind of education! Jenny is your average 16 year old schoolgirl. Attending a private school in the London suburb of Twickenham, her father pushes her to be the best, get those straight “A’s”, study, study, study, [...]
Go For It
October 7, 2009 – 9:12 am
Encountering a stranger who knows more about your life than he should is eerie. Well, I don’t mean to startle you, but I do know a private fact about you. I know that you are weighing up a decision in your life. To be sure, I do not know any details. I have no idea [...]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE BOYS ARE BACK
September 25, 2009 – 2:20 pm
We are so used to seeing films with a predictable plot line of mother wrangling unruly child or lonely miserable single mother trying to befriend her single child that we forget there are single dads out there, too. However, when we do see them, they are generally divorced, a part-time only dad, and a girlfriend [...]
AFGHANISTAN ALL IN
September 24, 2009 – 3:35 pm
There is never an end to the building of a country. The United States has been and always should be under construction. And all should know it to be true that good construction requires a solid foundation. Subsequent to the September 11th 2001 terrorist attack on the United States there was great need for building, [...]
STATE OF RACE
September 16, 2009 – 12:37 pm
Over the weekend the state of race relations in America came to mind…Seventy-five thousand protestors marched against President Obama’s agenda…Serena Williams had a meltdown at the U.S. Open…Kanye West went thug at the MTV Video Music Awards…And I attended my friend Kim’s Gospel Brunch in Beverly Hills. All of these events, except for my brunch, [...]
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME?
August 4, 2009 – 10:18 am
My writing has come to span a variety of topics. And because one can never truly know what lies beyond the next door I, on occasion, write about what was once reserved for my most personal of conversations—politics and business. You see, I admittedly have a passion for both subjects, but in the ideal sense; [...]
NO DEFENDING LA LIVE
July 24, 2009 – 4:16 pm
Funny, that hundreds of thousands of people have read my blogs either about LA Live or LA Live tenants and only two people have ever bothered to offer a comment in disagreement with the facts as I’ve presented them—that’s a pretty amazing statistic. So when the first comment of the two was submitted I had [...]
SPECIAL GUEST BARISTA
July 19, 2009 – 10:11 am
A FEW MONTHS AGO “Another Jack and Coke,” I said, ordering my fifth drink—I try to drink minimally at Lakers’ games. “Look Ray, you have to have an espresso machine at the bakery,” I urged. “We’re going to have coffee,” responded Ray politely. He’s from Denmark they’re polite. “That’s great, but you have to have [...]
