For anyone unfamiliar with the Universal CityWalk, tucked right beside Universal Studios in Hollywood, it is a monument to excess. Everything is big. And loud. It’s just past 9 p.m., and not many people are around before the buses come. Kiosks and shops close for the night. The only places still open are bars. And […]
Author Archives: Christopher Cobb
Author Palahniuk breaks the first rule, to talk about new novel “˜Lullaby’ at Ackerman
When someone says the name Chuck Palahniuk, if it’s even pronounced right, the first thing that comes to most people’s mind is “Fight Club.” Palahniuk, who gained fame with the 1996 breakthrough novel turned film and became a cult phenomenon, is pushing his latest book, “Lullaby,” today at a free signing in the Ackerman Grand […]
Political journalist Didion to speak at Hammer
Joan Didion’s “Political Fictions” introduces an angle on American politics few have seen. It’s like visiting the vacant set of a television show: what appears real and sincere is revealed to be fake. Didion, author of “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The White Album” will be speaking at the Hammer Museum Oct. 13 in an interview […]
Bowling for bullets
Filmmaker Michael Moore wants to make one thing crystal clear about his latest film, “Bowling for Columbine.” “Ultimately, this film is not about guns, it’s not about school shootings,” Moore said about the documentary, the first to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival for competition in 46 years. “You could make a documentary about […]
“˜Trainspotting’ characters resurface in “˜Porno’
“I’d got back to the new pad depressed that morning, having blown the last of the coke and started jerking off to a newspaper picture of Hillary Clinton in a power suit running for Senator of New York.” So says Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson, initiating the first in a series of many depraved sex acts […]