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Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial
Posted By Zócalo On February 12, 2009Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Posted By Zócalo On February 11, 2009
Scott Hamilton Kennedy, who grew up in Berkeley, California, can pinpoint the movie that changed his young life. When he was around 10 years old, Kennedy saw “Breaking Away.” “It was the first time I saw myself and my friends in a movie,” he said. “Quirky people with soul and faults. They were funny and nervous.” Kennedy went on to start his own production company and direct music videos before making his Oscar-nominated documentary “The Garden.”
What Happens When California’s Cash Runs Out?
Posted By Zócalo On February 11, 2009
For Valentine’s Day, Californians just want one thing.
“Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a budget deal,” said moderator Joe Mathews at the Los Angeles Central Library, where a full and diverse audience had gathered to talk about California’s cash crunch. Unfortunately, as the panelists made evidently clear, a budget won’t solve everything….
Blonde Bombshell
Posted By Zócalo On February 10, 2009by Lynn Emanuel
Love is boring and passé, and all the old baggage,
the bloody bric-a-brac, the bad, the gothic,
retrograde, obscurantist hum and drum of it
needs to be swept away. So night after night,
we sit in the dark of the Roxy beside grandmothers
with their shanks tied up in the tourniquets
of rolled stockings and open ourselves, like earth
to rain, to the blue fire of the movie screen….
Saving South L.A.’s Community Farm
Posted By Zócalo On February 10, 2009
Following Los Angeles elected officials while filming “The Garden” didn’t quite turn Oscar-nominated documentarian Scott Hamilton Kennedy onto running for office.
“I’m sure glad I’m not a politician. It’s a crappy job,” he said to the audience at the Laemmle Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills
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