The Doghouse
UNITED STATES—The Palmer House got all gussied up with the help of a threat from the city. Then came the big day of the...
Mattresside
UNITED STATES—The revamping of the Palmer House, a fleabag of over 100 rooms, didn’t just occur out of the blue. Nothing ever did in...
The Fox Outfoxed
UNITED STATES—The Wylie Empire included a hotel in a prime location on Skid Row—the elegantly named Palmer House on Wall St. (conveniently around the...
The $20 Man
UNITED STATES—There I was a few weeks ago in my hometown, up north, trying to get waited on in a doughnut shop. A man...
Thanks To Mick
UNITED STATES—My parents and sister showed up on my doorstep in Los Angeles to tell me Mick, my cousin had died. I didn’t even...
Kaminsky’s “Masterpiece” Ends
UNITED STATES—Film historian Peet Boggs concludes his conversation (part three) with the director of perhaps the most famous movie never made.
Jules Kaminsky: Benjamin and...
Kaminsky’s Lost Masterpiece
UNITED STATES—Peet Boggs: So Nita stays behind to accompany Benjamin, the refugee with a heart condition?
Jules Kaminsky: The film is about a hopelessly naïve...
Kaminsky’s Tale
UNITED STATES—Peet Boggs, the film historian and schnorrer manqué, interviewed filmmaker Jules Kaminsky many times starting in the mid-70s. The two first met when...
The Pay Off
UNITED STATES—It was a Thursday afternoon and ostensibly my “day off.” I was refuging into a movie theater, the Vista, to escape the unfolding...