Ross Hawkins
My Reasons for Endorsing Meghan Are Different from Others’
I am endorsing Meghan Sahli-Wells for City Council in the April 13 election.
Backlot Film Festival Winner Comes to Television This Weekend
Writer Allison Gryphon, author of the original screenplay for La Cucina (The Kitchen), said that the film that had its world premiere at last year’s Backlot Film Festival, will debut on television on Friday.
Response to Mean-Spirited Attack on My Friend
Re “Violin and His Reasoning Are Whacked by a Duty-Bound 27-Year-Old” Early in November, just after the School Board election, self-styled...
Champions of the Backlot Festival
Here are the award winners from last week’s 4th Backlot Film Festival, at the Vets Auditorium, where actress Terry Moore made the presentations on Saturday night:
Three Days to Go for Backlot Festival
There are three more days of events and screenings at the 4th Backlot Film Festival, based at the Vets Auditorium, at the intersection of Overland and Culver Boulevard.
Highlights of the next three days include a screening of Patrick Swayze's last film, "Jump," which will be released in December.
Backlot Film Festival Returns with Swayze’s Final Movie
Joshua Sinclair's true life drama "Jump," starring the late Patrick Swayze, in his last motion picture role, and Ben Silverstone, will screen at the Backlot Film Festival on its second evening, Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7:45.
Budd Schulberg Was Much More Than Another Face in the Crowd
Writer, producer, director Budd Schulberg, winner of the second Thomas Ince Award at the Culver City Backlot Film Festival in February of 2007, died at his home in Westhampton, N.Y., on Aug. 5, at he age of 95.
A Tale of the Second Bernie
So Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for bilking investors out of billions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme.
It’s Not Written in Stone, but How About a Statue for...
If any more statues are put up in Culver City, I'd like to suggest that it be one of Louis B.
Mayer, Metro Goldwyn Mayer's studio chief from 1924 until1951.
