The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 70, No. 52 - December 30, 2021
MLK Celebration is Back for the New Year
The last time the City’s MLK Celebration was held on the grounds of The Forum was 2018. Next year, the 39th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration will make its return to the Fabulous Forum Monday, January 17, 2022 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and include a commemorative
parade and family festival. Masks and proof of vaccination required for persons 12 years and older are required by organizer for entry into the festival. For more information on sponsorship, vendor opportunities, and parade participation, contact the Parks,
Travel from front page
We don’t know why more people don’t
love this movie. A wildly attractive cast in
a wildly attractive Paris. No palaces, but an
elegant bonus chanson from Charles Aznavour.
Bella Martha (Germany, Italy).
We’ll watch anything starring Martina
Gedeck, but the cooking steals the show.
Don’t start this one when you’re hungry, unless
you keep a certified Italian chef handy.
La Vie en Rose (France).
Paris and the Sparrow, Edith Piaf, from
the gutter to the presidential suite. Marion
Cotillard pivots from giddy to despondent to
regretful like no one before or since.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown (Madrid).
Beautiful women navigate love and the
bounds of reality in Madrid at its zaniest
and most flamboyant. Almodóvar’s best
movie—and that’s saying something—with
the amazing Carmen Maura and a young
Antonio Banderas in his baffled debut.
Sholay (India).
We include this odd and extremely long
movie because of what it says about the
audience. Think of The Magnificent Seven,
with weird and irrelevant musical numbers
thrown in whenever the mood strikes the starstudded
Bollywood cast. Just keep in mind
as you watch, that this is the most popular
movie in history, and by a fair margin. What
does that tell you?
Next up: The Thing About Wyoming.
Ben & Glinda Shipley, published writers
and photographers, share their expertise and
experience of their many world travels. If
you have any questions or interest in a particular
subject, please email them at web@
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Seven Years in Tibet (Tibet).
Brad Pitt becomes the German mountaineer
Heinrich Harrer and escapes from
a British WW II internment camp to climb
the mountains of Tibet. When he befriends
the next Dalai Lama, he lands in the middle
of the post-war Tibetan-Chinese crisis. Mao
Zedong delivers one of the nastiest lines of
dialogue ever heard.
The Bourne Identity (Europe).
Fantasy spies, absurd gymnastics, and slick,
celluloid paranoia in sensational European locations.
Corsica, Switzerland, France, Germany,
and Ibiza. Another French farm we intend
to buy with that inheritance we’ll never see.
Doctor Zhivago (Russia).
Russia at its over-sized and sumptuous best
and worst—and how hard it can sometimes
be to tell the difference.
Lillehammer (Norway).
The inimitable Steve van Zandt spends three
TV seasons teaching the Norwegians to play
Mafia. The Norwegians turn the tables by
teaching Frank to play human being. If you
crave snow, this will qualify as an overdose.
If you don’t, it’s a lot of snow.
The Truth about Charlie (France).
Stromboli, Italy—Ingrid Bergman tested the morals clause in her contract here and lost.
Salzburg, Austria—Maria Augusta Kutschera came as a governess
and left with the von Trapp Family Singers.
Lumphanan, Scotland—the real King Macbeth met his grisly,
headless fate on yonder stone.
Bran, Romania—Count Dracula opts for photogenic, or at least
his castle does.
Corleone, Sicily—the road to The Godfather is lined with
colorful ruins.
Recreation and Community Services Department: (310) 412-8750. Photo courtesy City of Inglewood.