Tag: Vassar College

• I’ve Loved Working With My Film-Making “Idols”

  Man, have I been lucky! Not only did I get to have a “Hollywood career”, that career allowed me to work with people whose film work I adored. It’s a stone cold fact: I’ve loved working with my film making idols! Looking back at my TV-film writing-producing career, the fact that I had a career…

  A L Katz

  August 10, 2022

  Culture, Movie Reviews, Showbiz Stories

  Bordello Of Blood, Buck Henry, EC Comics, Gilbert Adler, Joel Silver, Mad Magazine, Marx Brothers, Meatloaf, Robert Zemeckis, Tales From The Crypt, Tom Hanks, Vassar College, William Gaines

• Human Beings Can’t Help Being Tribal; The Trick Is To See As Many Other Humans As Possible As “Your Tribe”

  I’m an Angeleno. As crazy-making as living in LA can make you, I love living here and I feel a very real kinship with everyone else who loves living here. Hell — I feel a kinship for those who DON’T love living here. I get it. I understand them and feel those same tugs. If…

  A L Katz

  December 15, 2019

  Live Bullshit Free, New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, Trump

  American tribalism, Angelenos, California Culture, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Lakers, Tribalism, Vassar College

• Why I HATE Missing A Good Earthquake

  I’ve lived in Southern California for 35 years — longer than I’ve lived anywhere. That almost makes me a native. It doesn’t — and for that I’ll be eternally sad. I grew up in the east — in a Jewish suburb in northwest Baltimore. I went to Vassar — 90 minutes north of NYC. After…

  A L Katz

  July 6, 2019

  Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Live Bullshit Free, New Ways of Thinking, Trump, Uncategorized

  Earthquakes, Geology, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Feliz, Northridge earthquake, Ridgecrest Earthquake, San Andreas Fault, Silver Lake, Southern California, Vassar College, Whittier Narrows earthquake

• What WASPS Look Like

  I grew up in a bubble.   It’s true.  Pikesville, MD (just outside northwest Baltimore) was so predominantly Jewish that clever (non-Jewish) people called it ‘Kikesville’.  Get it? My public high schools — Pikesville Junior High & Pikesville Senior High — were so predominantly Jewish that even the non-Jewish kids took the Jewish holidays off because…

  A L Katz

  December 6, 2018

  New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, Republicanism, The Branding Age

  Annie Hall, Antisemitism, Assimilation, Baltimore, Brooklyn, California Culture, Culture, Culture War, Vassar College, WASPS, White Christian Male Culture