Les Anges exterminateurs (2006)

At Regency Academy Cinemas in Pasadena.

The Best and the Brightest

Now comes news that David Halberstam has been killed in a fiery car crash in Menlo Park. Horrible.

Alas, poor Boris

Boris Yeltsin has died, first president of the Russian Federation. He didn't amount to much in recent years, but in 1991 he seemed like a big man. That was a year before I was in Russia, when he was standing on top of Soviet tanks giving speeches in front of the Russian White House.

A year later, in 1993, the tanks were his and he was shelling that same White House, and the parliamentarians therein who had tried to impeach him. Another year passed and it was the start of the First Chechen War.

In 1999 he gave the world Vladimir Putin.

Update to the OC Review website

Update to the Orange Coast Review website; 2007 release party to be held May 3.

Jonathan Fletcher at Orange Coast College

Killer of Sheep (1977)

At the Nuart Theater in West Los Angeles.

literature & art

Davi Loren and I put the 2007 Orange Coast Review literary journal to bed last night; it should be at the printer this morning. We also ordered 1,000 postcards for the reception to be held May 3 at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California.

Also yesterday I noticed in the New Yorker that Robert Seydel, whom we used in a previous issue, has a show currently at CUE Art Foundation in Chelsea.

Here's a review.

Nia Jex shoot