DINNER RUSH : THE BEST MOB MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN : CHRISTINE TRZYNA DVD FILM REVIEW

DINNER RUSH : THE BEST MOB MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN : CHRISTINE TRZYNA DVD FILM REVIEW

Speaking of more restaurants with heavily curtained dining alcoves.




A Bob Giraldi Film, staring Danny Aiello.  Written by screenwriters Rick Shaughnessy and Brian Kalata...
 Lately I've become sensitive to editing, and this film was edited and filmed to have a reality TV sort of haywire.  The camera and the action and the dialogue quickly moves through the film, interspersed with fast clips of restaurant reality; the ambiance on deck and the chaos of the kitchen. 



It's all very effective, and perhaps because at times you feel a little hopped up to follow the story, a little confused.  The the tension builds, and having seen a lot of mob movies you're expecting a murder at any time, but when it comes it's a surprise!  You've been lulled.

Dinner Rush is perhaps the best mob/Mafia film I've ever seen.  The plot revolves around bookie and restaurateur Louis Cropa acted by Danny Aiello, whose partner was recently killed by two young thugs from the Queens who want to take over some businesses, including the restaurant, and the turf.  The bookie's son has a gambling habit and is in hock to these two thugs $13,000.

The restaurant is one of the hot spots of New York and an important critic has come to sample and write about the Nuevo Cuisine, while Louis mourns not only his partner but also the days when an Italian restaurant featured meat balls.
 
Louis himself is low key but, as all his loyal and some not so loyal employees know, his word is a command.  Who will obey?  Who won't?

Cut. Action. More action.  Did you hear that?  Overhear that?  Did that just happen?

C 2013 Christine Trzyna  All Rights Reserved

THE PEOPLE'S PALACE : A PORTRAIT OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW

A film by Kunhardt Productions and Thirteen/ New York  C 2007

You read me bitch about LAPL?

Los Angeles Public Library can't compare with the New York Public Library, which still has an emphasis on being a research facility for the public's use. 

Los Angeles Public Library's book purchases reflect a popular library view point.  (This really hit me when I discovered a slew of Nadine Gordimer's books on a free book cart being given away because they hadn't been taken out enough over at the Studio City branch a few years ago.) 

For many years and ongoing, I've suggested dozens of book purchases, some of the titles having been featured in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the LA Weekly, or the BOOK FAIR (once known as the UCLA LA TIMES BOOK FAIR now the USC LA TIMES BOOK FAIR) and though I'm told that all such suggestions are read, they must be read and then pitched (which rhymes with bitched) because I don't think a single suggestion I've made has resulted in a book purchase.

What is most in demand at NY circa 2007? 

First drafts of now famous writer's works.  Manuscripts that are, because they are not in a museum but a place where they are used, are conserved but also lent out for use. 

Betty Frieden wrote at New York Public Library. 

So did Bob Dylan.

There are thousands of original music scores housed at NYPL, John Cage's orchestrations being the most used and studied.

Copies of handwritten documents by Thomas Jefferson (he hand copied unedited Declarations of Independence for some of his friends so they could read it and then the official, published copies, to compair.  George Washington's beer recipe...


Prior to the Andrew Carnegie endowment the library was unable to expand and go public.  Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest, but he also believed in giving children a chance.

Today one of the most vital branches is the Schomberg center and their Black cultural, historical, literacy, and other efforts.


SCHOMBURG CENTER (NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY) FOR BLACK CULTURE  link!

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY  link!

I 've benefited from Andrew Carnegie's largess in my lifetime.  I don't have the Frequent Flyer miles or the friend with an empty nest required to go research in New York, but I wish.

PATRICIA CORNWELL WINS LAWSUIT : FINANCIAL ADVISORS DIDN'T PROTECT HER WRITERLY ENVIRONMENT AMONG OTHER OFFENSES

This article is swirling around the net in various forms.  Here's the link to the BBC News version.

Patricia Cornwell wins $51m deal over financial losses : BBC NEWS

ECERPT "...The lawsuit added that because Cornwell suffered from bipolar disorder - a condition she says her business managers were aware of - the author's "ability to write is dependent upon the ability to avoid distractions."

"A quiet, uninterrupted environment, free of the distractions of managing her business and her assets, including her investments, is essential to her ability to write and to meet her deadlines," it says..."

THE SINGING DETECTIVE : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW

Loovved this movie, but I was sewing when I watched it the first time and thought I should watch it again to resolve some questions I had about the plot. I decided I wanted to understand the screenplay behind it.


 I did watch it again and decided that was terrific, and not just because Robert Downey Junior is one of my favorite actors. 

RD Jr.  acts as Dan Dark, a pulp fiction writer who has been badly physically burned, and while in the hospital recovering, flashes back to episodes in his past fiction writing, which take place in the 1950's and uses music from the 1950's as a lead into memory. 

As many writers can testify their real life experiences can also be used in or inspire fiction.  So Dan Dark's memories cross into his real life as well.  The confusion he experiences and which I experienced watching the film, which took artful editing and masterful writing (Screenplay by Dennis Potter) works, and some of the brutality is softer because the viewer knows these are fictive characters.

You know I won't ruin it by telling you the story, but if you haven't ever watched THE SINGING DETECTIVE, watch it - at least twice.

C 2013  Christine Trzyna  All Rights Reserved

CORNELIA FUNKE Quote

"Stories never end.  Even if the books like to pretend they do.  The stories always go on.  They don't end on the last page.  Any more than they begin on the first page." 

 - Cornelia Funke

INTERNET JOURNALISTS PIGGYBACKING COVERAGE ON THE MISSONI MYSTERY : INACCURATE HEADLINES : LAZY JOURNALISTS

LAZY JOURNALISTS PIGGYBACKING COVERAGE ON THE MISSONI MYSTERY : INACCURATE HEADLINES : UNTOLD STORY

By Christine Trzyna

Once in a while I get hooked on a news story and follow it closely. 

Recently I started reading everything I could find on the MISSONI MYSTERY.  

As a recap, on about January 3rd/4th 2013, a small plane carrying the so called "iconic" Vittorio Missoni and five others disappeared in a cloud not long after take-off from a resort island off the coast of Venezuela.   Missoni has been the world brand ambassador of this family owned Milan, Italy,  fashion house which began about a half century ago and has had great impact on the design of knits and fashion.  Though not inexpensive,  in the last year they made a deal with Target and the less expensive products were sold out so very quickly and started appearing on e-Bay for more than they were priced.  This is how well loved the designs the Missoni family makes are!

Not one article I read suggested that a fashion house enemy or perhaps the Italian Mafia were involved but I wondered.  When the children of the presumed dead began to reach out to (unnamed) enemies and Twitter for help to find their parents, I really wanted more story.  The idea of kidnapping was mentioned but hey, no mention of a ransom asked for. 

Cell phone "anomalies" indicated that calls were sent from cell phones that would be underwater unless the passengers and plane had been hijacked by drug dealers, which apparently happens a whole lot in the area. Venezuela denied this as a possibility. 

Just the cell phone anomaly story had me hooked and for days I watched the press for some explanation, which to this point I have not found.  I tried to research this myself.  How long can a cell phone withstand being underwater?  Friends said some models can work though they have fallen in a swimming pool or toilet, but not thousands of feet under the sea. 

I read dozens of articles that piggybacked on others, looking for the original source or the best source for information. 

Then began, it turns out an inaccurate report that the pilot was not licenced. Even when this proved to be untrue it continued to be reported.  I checked the publishing dates and there are a whole lot of so called journalists who should be ashamed of themselves.  Are these journalists even researching, asking questions, or just reading each others articles and using new, inaccurate words as well as information over and over again for a month now? 

The pilot was healthy, licenced, and well regarded in the area. 

A fellow pilot thought maybe a thunderbolt felled the plane!

In the last few days it was revealed that a sports bag was found a couple hundred miles away from where the search had centered.  It had been stowed away on the plane the Missoni party hired because there wasn't enough room on another plane.  Nowhere in the press have I read that this sports bag was empty, wet, full of sand, found on a beach.  The word ROCKS was used.  It was apparently in good enough condition that the German Tourist who found it took it home and contacted the owner because the name tag inside was still intact.  (Would you take home a soakinig wet empty bag?

Lazy journalists and HEADLINE WRITERS, started reporting this single sports bag as "Missoni Luggage" and "First Debris" of the plane!  I see no reason to speculate like that in a journalistic article.

In dozens of articles journalists are confused as to whether the woman Missoni was traveling with was his "Wife," "Life-Partner," or "Companion." Apparently their relationship is so secret dspite the international fame of Vittorio that journalists can't find a marriage license, church record, or ask the family, before publishing.


It is a MYSTERY as to why no bodies, no luggage, no  nothing - but the sports bag - has made its way up and over the sea after a month.  Theories are that the plane is so far down that it cannot be detected by the usual means and so the family, Italy, and Venezuela have sent a submarine to look around the sea floor. 

The sports bag found on rocks in good enough condition has lead the search to 200 miles away, perhaps the flotsam and jetsam moved with fast tides.

Meanwhile, as the show must go on, you can see the spring Missoni show that took place for Fashion Week in Milan recently on YouTube.  However, you will be very lucky to find any speculation in the press on what the Missoni family's plan is if, indeed Vittorio is dead.  I can understand, given the problems with the plane crash theory, the family is hesitating to be conclusive!

Meanwhile it is clear to me that in order to be FAST about POSTING AN ARTICLE / DEADLINE PRESSURE, accuracy is no longer a consideration!

C Christine Trzyna 2013  All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights.

AIR GUITAR NATION WAS HILARIOUS and INTRIGUING : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW

Intriguing! 

I admit that I have not only been "movie deprived" over the last few years - though I AM CATCHING UP! - but I also was somehow one of the last to understand that there are AIR GUITAR competitions that culminate in an International Competition in Finland, that it is thought of as performance art by the practitioners, and some think, athletics, and that the competition is funny, friendly, and fierce!

I loved this film/ DVD! I was laughing out loud and stopped crocheting to watch with all my attention focused.

This documentary film focuses on the 2003 competition which featured David "C- Diddy" Jung and Dan "Bjorn Turoque" Crane, but you see clips of a lot of other top performers, and well, I decided that IF YOU CAN SEE THE (INVISIBLE) GUITAR then you are watching a master, and I was.

There was also this:  It brought back the GUITAR GOD era, HEAVY METAL and other opportunities for a GUITAR GOD to show off his or her licks, stage antics, and costuming.  Bringing all of that together, along with mugging, attitude, and knowledge of actual guitar playing is an art, and these are artists!

C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved