Following in the long line of advice givers ““ tarot cards, horoscopes, Dr. Phil ““ comes www.journalgenie.com, a new Web site that analyzes and responds to journal entries within seconds. Whether this is every Bridget Jones’ worst nightmare or dream come true, it is now a reality. Launched last month, Journal Genie essentially takes everyday […]
Author Archives: Fay Gordon
Review: Unerring imitations make audiences laugh at “˜Matt and Ben’
Matt Damon: We’re going to be famous! I’m gonna meet Spielberg, Scorcese. … Ben Affleck: Yeah! I’m going to meet Daisy Fuentes. I like Latin women. Who knows if this conversation ever actually took place? Writers Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers certainly don’t, but that didn’t stop them from sticking it in their fresh off-Broadway […]
A Novel Navel
At Santa Monica’s Highways Performance Space, the walls drip with bold red and black fabric ““ it envelopes the beats of an Oriental jazz band, creating a steady rhythm for three dancers to languidly rise after slowly pounding and stretching on the ground. The music, movements and theatrics intensify with the dancers’ flailing arms, flying […]
Amateur production a magnet for dorm residents
Actors normally don’t take snapshots of each other during rehearsal, but for UCLA dorm residents acting in English Professor Frederick Burwick’s theatrical production, every moment of this rare experience must be captured. The students are more tourist group than acting troupe. Burwick, a professor-in-residence in Hedrick Hall for the past six years, has directed a […]
Hammer highlights collaborative effort of electronic literature
Poets like Emily Dickinson bring to mind the image of a solo poet, confined to her room with pen to paper, divulging her soul in her words. But not all poets today reflect the same image. With the opportunities of new media and electronic literature, fiction is no longer a relationship between the author and […]
Review: “˜Amateur Marriage’ is a stale novel on stale relationships
If Britney Spears were an avid reader, she might pick up a copy of Anne Tyler’s “The Amateur Marriage” and think twice about hasty Las Vegas nuptials. While a well-read Spears could be a great thing, fortunately, she probably wouldn’t waste her time on this clunky novel. From Tyler, who won a Pulitzer Prize in […]
Five win award in ASUCLA Art in the Union contest
Many students and faculty skipped their usual Kerckhoff Coffeehouse run Wednesday, in favor of an afternoon of art and complimentary refreshments just next door. Samba music and mingling observers filled the usually empty Kerckhoff Art Gallery, as the Associated Students of UCLA’s Art in the Union program hosted a reception Wednesday afternoon to honor the […]