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Mark Marney, deputy director of golf, took trip courtesy of Toro
I've never heard of a "deputy director of golf." Does this guy work for the City? Or Torrey Pines Golf Course? Attribution needed.— January 10, 2018 10:43 p.m.
Tonya fights back
0nly a few laughs in this strange film -- a testimonial to the importance of government child protective services and shelters for battered women. An unforgettable heavy movie, if imperfect by Scott's cinematic standards. I remember the 'Incident" back when ice skating star Nancy Kerrigan got kneecapped by her rival Tonya Harding: popular sympathy for Kerrigan. People knew nothing about Tonya Harding except that she too was a great athlete but obviously an unspeakably terrible person. Well, if this movie is to be believed (which I did) Tonya was an amazing terrible person, always looking for love in all the wrong places, full of fire and desperate resolve, badly used by every important person in her life -- and a wounded survivor.— January 10, 2018 8:51 p.m.
Angelika kicks off yearlong Leading Ladies series
The list of movies sounds very fun and yes, many think Fay Wray in King Kong's clutches is pretty iconic.Also, I never knew Marilyn Monroe was in "All about Eve." As for your amusing put-down of "the silver-haired set" who enjoy blasts from the past, driving in daylight and early bedtimes, well, you just wait, Scottie. It happens to everyone. The real problem is with that movie theater that's to hell and gone on the wide wide I-15 and not really in San Diego at all.— January 8, 2018 10:34 p.m.
Union-Tribune to fold its operation into the Los Angeles Times?
Not even you, dwbat? How about the LA Times?— January 8, 2018 6:26 p.m.
Union-Tribune to fold its operation into the Los Angeles Times?
If you are talking about the San Diego Union-Tribune, I would agree. The Los Angeles Times is struggling now, losing superb writers with every passing day.— January 8, 2018 6:25 p.m.
Top 18 movies of 2017
"Lady Bird," set in Sacramento, was over-rated and unremarkable. Saoirse Ronan was fine, but I didn't like good old out-of-work dad secretly conspiring with his teenager to take out a second mortgage on the house to provide his rebel daughter's extortionate tuition for some private Ivy League college in a New York-like big city. I thought this was a terrible message for movie-going California families. Greta Gerwig was a better actress in "Frances Ha," a cautionary tale about finding one's 20-something self in NYC, than she is writer/director of "Lady Bird." Also, "Maudie," filmed in Newfoundland and starring amazing Sally Hawkins, is about much more than "suffering as the crucible of beauty." Maudie is homely, physically deformed and very alone in the world, but she makes human connections, establishes a homestead and ultimately shares a devoted relationship with an eccentric, irritable isolate and she becomes a folk artist famous for drawing on the stunning beauty of her native landscape.— January 4, 2018 6:43 p.m.
Union-Tribune to fold its operation into the Los Angeles Times?
The LA Times is a great newspaper suffering contraction. The process has been harrowing to witness. Twice weekly op-ed columnist and former D.C. Bureau chief Doyle Mc Manus said hasta la vista last Sunday. Today news staff was reported to be voting on whether or not to unionize. We await news of the outcome and if that will make any difference in the death spiral.— January 4, 2018 5:52 p.m.
Qualcomm cofounder gave big for Roy Moore
It's a free country, as they used to say when I was a kid, and one can give to or withold from whomever one wants, but chief scientists at Qualcomm sending money to Roy Moore strain credulity.— December 18, 2017 11:19 p.m.
Airport advertising overload
In our vain business-mogul world, no civic institution is exempt from surrendering its identity for a wad of dough from "benefactors" who wants to see their name in lights. This week I visited the newly-remodeled and expanded La Jolla YMCA -- an iconic spot for generations of locals since 1964 (jazzercize, kids' swimming lessons, gymnastics, Indian princesses, basketball leagues) -- and the name has entirely disappeared. In its place is "Dan McKinney Family YMCA." Thanks a lot, Dan McKinney. Was that really necessary? It's not unlike inroads made by mega-philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs on the Copley Symphony Hall or La Jolla Playhouse at UCSD. When is it satisfaction enough just to give money for a good purpose? How hard is it to forego labeling the edifice and elbowing some previous philanthropist out of the way?— December 11, 2017 5 p.m.
A reader invites the Reader to Scripps Ranch
Take that, Moss Gropen, for your unwarranted snarky piece on Scripps Ranch. If you still live there, better wear shades and a hat when you visit the five and dime.— December 7, 2017 3:27 p.m.