Tune in Tuesday, June 8th at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests:
Writer/Director Ralph Ziman and Composer Alan Lazar will be talking about their new film Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema.
Internationally acclaimed photographer Henry Leutwyler will be talking about his new book Neverland Lost. A Portrait of Michael Jackson.
Derek Hanson and Rebecca Riker will be talking about A CHORUS LINE which is currently playing at the Pantages Theatre.
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
Inspired by a true story, Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema is an unflinching look into the crime, corruption and the transgressions of those looking to survive in the most crime-infested district of Johannesburg.
Starting off with simple smash and grabs, and petty crime, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. Soon, Lucky realizes he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big, and escaping from the slums, to a dream house by the sea. Kunene hatches an elaborate and violent plan to make his fortune - hijacking buildings from landlords of Johannesburg tenements by winning the favor of the tenants and then holding their rent hostage from the landowners. His high-profile real estate acquisitions attract the attention of the local police force who have no qualms about using unprovoked brutality to bring him down. His trouble with the law, coupled with an escalating war between a local drug lord, creates a tense standoff: both sides are closing in, and Kunene must stay one step ahead-or his empire, and his life, will come crashing down.
Anchor Bay Films will release Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema on June 11, 2010 in New York and Houston, and in Los Angeles on June 18. It has a running time of 118 minutes and is rated R by the MPAA for violence, language, drug use, and some sexual content.
NEVERLAND LOST. A Portrait of Michael Jackson
Prior to Michael Jackson's death, Henry Leutwyler photographed crates of artifacts removed from Jackson's Neverland ranch in California. The resulting series of photographs document the inner turmoil of the public person who chose to model his private life on Peter Pan and the Lost Boys - children who never wanted to grow up. Leutwyler's unemotional portraits are almost too intimate to behold, but when one digs beneath the surface, what emerges is the profound truth of a star's sequestered reality. Leutwyler's photographs unearth the "Lost Boy" forced to leave Neverland, and now these still lifes are as close as anyone will ever get to what Jackson once had, and ultimately left behind. "I have an urge to investigate people I have never met" says Swiss-born Henry Leutwyler. With twenty-five years experience creating portraits that document the famous and powerful, he has turned his gaze on the belongings that surround the individual. A selftaught youth who began his career by photographing "cheese and chocolates", Leutwyler is a visual archaeologist. His work drills deep, allowing the objects to reveal more than the subjects themselves.
HENRY LEUTWYLER: NEVERLAND LOST June 10 - August 14, 2010 at M+B 612 NORTH ALMONT DRIVE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90069 TEL (310)550-0050. Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm, and by appointment For more information WWW.MBART.COM
Swiss born, Leutwyler is an internationally acclaimed and award winning photographer! A creative force in Paris for a decade, he then moved to New York City in 1996, where he lives with his wife and two children. His work has appeared in prestigious publications such as the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Esquire.
Among his subjects are: 50 Cent, Elvis Costello, Julia Roberts, Liv Ullmann, Roberto Benigni, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Rihanna, Beyonce, Michelle Obama, Queen Noor of Jordan, Mikhail Gorbachev, His Majesty King Abdulah II, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wolfe, and Dizzy Gillespie.
A CHORUS LINE
Winner of nine Tony Awards®, including "Best Musical" and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, this singular sensation is the longest-running American Broadway musical ever. Now A CHORUS LINE returns. Come meet the new generation of Broadway's best. "A Chorus Line is back, and it's thrilling!" - John Lahr, The New Yorker. In an empty theatre, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 17 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It's what they've worked for - with every drop of sweat, every hour of training, every day of their lives. It's the one opportunity to do what they've always dreamed -- to have the chance to dance.
A CHORUS LINE is currently playing for a limited run at the Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028.
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