Courtesy of Plug Ugly FilmsStraight from the horse's mouth with Michael Slàdek.Though Norma Desmond only lived at the cineplex (and now Netflix), she famously said, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." Filmmaker and one-time Newport Beach resident Michael Slàdek is not yet big, but he is turning the phrase uttered by Sunset Boulevard's gloriously spaced-out Gloria Swanson on its head. For him, it's the film festivals that got big.Five years after Slàdek's debut feature, Devils Are Dr
Fourth Street, SanTana: mid 1950s. What was so great about these segregated days?
Orange County is a place where booster myths have
masqueraded as fact and history since the days of Serra, but an article in this
month's Orange Coast by former Los Angeles Times writer Agustín Gurza
on SanTana and its Artists Village takes the orange crate label. It starts with the title ("The Resurrection
of Santa Ana," implying the county seat was once dead, which should come as a
surprise to all
