Under the Hollywood Sign

An Unlikely Convert to Dodger Baseball

How Shōhei Ohtani made a fan out of me

Nov 11 • 

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From My Archive: "Woman in the Dunes": Teshigahara's 1964 Masterpiece, and Abe and Takemitsu's Too

How a collaboration of three masters made a timeless film

Nov 6 • 

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October 2025

My Mother's Languages

Dictionaries, Language Studies, and an Unexpected Prize

Oct 24 • 

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Diane Keaton's Incomparable Eye

Through Fifty Years and Multiple Careers, Her Visual Sense Never Faltered

Oct 15 • 

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September 2025

Visiting Greenacres, Harold Lloyd's Dream House

A Florentine Palace in Beverly Hills

Sep 29 • 

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Revisiting Harold Lloyd's Hancock Park Home

The Silent Film Star's Italianate House Gets a Long Overdue Renovation

Sep 23 • 

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Harold Lloyd's Home Movies--and "The Freshman"

Remembering the Ageless "Man With the Glasses" On the Centennial of His Collegiate Classic

Sep 18 • 

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Oasis, Illuminated

The Band's Rose Bowl Concert Did For Me What Thirty Years of Listening Couldn't

Sep 10 • 

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Reading "The Tale of Genji" and "In Search of Lost Time" Under Professorial Supervision

Two giant novels, two professors and two colleges

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

The Shining World of Lady Murasaki

Lauren Groff's Kyōtō Travelogue, and Mine

Aug 25 • 

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SFMOMA's Peerless Ruth Asawa Retrospective

Six Decades of Work By An Artist Who Never Stopped Creating

Aug 16 • 

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Watching "A Better Tomorrow", John Woo's 1986 Classic

How gangsters, gunfights and comedy became the template for Hong Kong action movies

Aug 10 • 

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