May 7: Extra Edition

The Liberal Democrats didn't do as well in Britain's general election as hoped, but here is more about lovable Nick Clegg anyway:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/05/nick-clegg-general-election-bookish-vote

Having done my time as a temp worker, I'm sure I would enjoy Dan Dietz's play tempOdyssey, enthusiastically reviewed by the Los Angeles Times:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/theater-review-tempodyssey-at-artworks-theatre.html

I'm excited to hear that the entire run of the 1960-1962 television detective series Checkmate, with Anthony George, Doug McClure, and Sebastian Cabot, is being made available on DVD:  

http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2010/05/fogged-over-frisco.html

http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/03/06.html#a1080

http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2008/06/streets-of-san-francisco-circa-1960-62.html

I've seen several episodes of Checkmate, which has always been a well-regarded show, and I would purchase this box set without hesitation.

It is interesting to read in depth about Orson Welles's flirtation with television:

http://thenighteditor.blogspot.com/2010/05/failed-romance-between-welles-and.html

http://blogs.tc.columbia.edu/fera/2009/12/15/arrested-development-how-orson-welles-tried-to-revolutionize-television-and-why-television-wouldn%E2%80%99t-let-him-by-ben-walters/

Sam Peckinpah started in television, of course -- he created The Rifleman and The Westerner -- and as late as 1966, he filmed an adaptation of the Katherine Anne Porter short story "Noon Wine" for the anthology series ABC Stage 67. There's a new book out on the making of Peckinpah's films, Entered His House Justified by Jeff Slater, that looks well-researched (albeit pricey at $72.95 list):

http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/48-ENTERED-HIS-HOUSE-JUSTIFIED-THE-MAKING-OF-THE-FILMS-OF-SAM-PECKINPAH.html

After 18-year-old Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa shot a 58 on a par-70 course in last weekend's Japan Tour event, Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf took the opportunity to review the history of sub-60 rounds in tournament play:

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/Ranking-the-all-time-sub-60-rounds?urn=golf,238312

The young Bulgarian painter Iva Gueorguieva draws part of her ferocious energy from the example of earlier modernist painters, but her attack is too much her own to be considered in any way derivative. I don't see her as in the least "post-modernist"; there is no fashionable irony here. The last link has a slideshow of 26 images that is worth looking at in full:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/art-review-iva-gueorguieva-at-angles-gallery.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/27/entertainment/la-ca-iva27-2009dec27

http://www.anglesgallery.com/ssp_director/exhibitions.php?id=104

With its usual flare for uncovering striking images, the visual blog If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger... offers a delectable LP cover from a country album by Danish jazz trombonist Kai Winding. Take me back to 1964 (please):

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2010/05/art-of-jazz-115.html


http://bjbear71.com/Winding/Kai.html