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Forbath Kicks to Groza Award

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UCLA junior Kai Forbath is this year's Lou Groza Award winner as the most outstanding kicker in college football.
UCLA junior Kai Forbath is this year’s Lou Groza Award winner as the most outstanding kicker in college football.

UCLA junior and Pacific Palisades resident Kai Forbath was named the 2009 winner of the Lou Groza Collegiate Placekicker Award last Thursday on the ESPN College Football Awards Show in Orlando, Florida. The honor came on the heels of his being named First-Team All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation and the American Football Coaches Association. Heading into the Bruins’ EagleBank Bowl game against Temple on December 29, Forbath has made 26 of 29 field goal attempts and 22 of 23 extra-point kicks this season. He is second in the nation in field goals per game (2.17) and is 23 for 23 inside 50 yards. Forbath earned four letters at Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks, where he led his team to three CIF Southern Section championships and a 35-1 career record. In his last two prep seasons he made 26 of 33 field goal tries, 134 of 135 extra-point attempts and scored 213 points. He played in both the U.S. Army All-American Bowl and the CaliFlorida Bowl and was rated the No. 1 placekicker in the country by rivals.com.

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FURNISHED HOMES 2

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UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS 2c

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CONDOS/TOWNHOMES FOR RENT 2d

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RENTALS TO SHARE 3a

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OFFICE/STORE RENTALS 3c

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ONE OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT in Pacific Palisades Village. $1,250/mo. Call (310) 230-8335

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OFFICES FOR RENT in First Federal building on Sunset, in the village. Will install new carpeting. Call Ev Maguire at (310) 600-3603

VACATION RENTALS 3e

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ATTORNEYS 7a

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COMPUTER SERVICES 7c

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HOUSEKEEPERS 9a

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ELDER CARE/COMPANIONS 10a

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GARDENING/LANDSCAPING 11

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MOVING & HAULING 11b

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HEALTH & BEAUTY CARE 12a

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STEREO, TV, VCR SERVICES 13g

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WINDOW WASHING 13h

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CATERING 14

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PERSONAL SERVICES 14f

ORGANIZER HOME AND OFFICE. There’s no place like home for the holidays’unless it’s a mess. Let me help you get organized. Call Char @ (310) 562-3372 or cbcoaching@gmail.com

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GIRL FRIDAY/HOME ORGANIZER/personal assistant. Excellent references, 10 years experience. Reasonable rates. Pacific Palisades resident. Call Michelle, (310) 433-6362

PET SERVICES/PET SITTING 14g

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FITNESS INSTRUCTION 15a

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TUTORS 15e

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MUSIC LESSONS & INSTRUCTION 15h

PIANO LESSONS/INSTRUCTION for intermediate students. Classical Performance BM honors student UC Santa Barbara. Supportive/creative/engaging methods for pianistic excellence. Pacific Palisades, (805) 231-2958, gavin.gamboa@gmail.com

CONCRETE, MASONRY, POOLS 16c

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CONSTRUCTION 16d

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ELECTRICAL 16h

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FENCES, DECKS 16j

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FLOOR CARE 16m

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HANDYMAN 16o

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HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING 16p

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PAINTING, PAPERHANGING 16r

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TILO MARTIN PAINTING. For A Professional Job Call (310) 230-0202. Refs. Lic. #715099

SQUIRE PAINTING CO. Interior and Exterior. License #405049. 30 years. Local Service. (310) 454-8266, www.squirepainting.com

ZARKO PRTINA PAINTING. Interior/Exterior. Serving Palisades/Malibu over 35 years. Lic. #637882. Call (310) 454-6604

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REMODELING 16v

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HELP WANTED 17

THE SKI CHANNEL & THE SURF CHANNEL located in the Palisades village have immediate openings for interns in programming, production & marketing. (310) 230-2050

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CAREGIVER WANTED for active 92 year old male. Men only. Part time, live-in. Salary commensurate with experience. (310) 454-1956

AUTOS 18b

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PETS, LIVESTOCK 18e

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MISCELLANEOUS 18g

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Producer Joe Papp Secured Theater for All

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Kenneth Turan in October, speaking at the Barnes & Noble panel in New York for the launch of his book. Panel members included Bernard Gersten, executive producer at Lincoln Center, Gail Merrifield Papp, and Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater in New York. Photo: Patricia Williams
Kenneth Turan in October, speaking at the Barnes & Noble panel in New York for the launch of his book. Panel members included Bernard Gersten, executive producer at Lincoln Center, Gail Merrifield Papp, and Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater in New York. Photo: Patricia Williams

For Joe Papp, the force behind bringing Shake-speare to the masses, all the world would have been his stage, had he had enough speed and energy to set up a platform and stretch a curtain around the globe. But it was enough that he was the genius behind Shakespeare in the Park and New York City’s Public Theater, which debuted such seminal works as ‘Hair,’ ‘A Chorus Line,’ ‘Short Eyes,’ ‘True West,’ and David Rabe’s loose trilogy of plays drawing on his experiences as an Army draftee in Vietnam. Now, more than 50 years after the Public was established in the East Village, readers can learn about the man behind the history in ‘Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public and the Greatest Story Ever Told,’ by Pacific Palisades author Kenneth Turan and Joe Papp. An invaluable source for theater professionals’producers, directors, writers and actors’the book is also a Horatio Alger saga of one man’s relentless mission to present Shakespeare to everyone free of charge. The story unfolds in a continuous collage of interviews Turan conducted over two years beginning in 1986. While he admits he has never been a theater person (Turan has been a film critic for the Los Angeles Times since 1991), his agent presented the idea to him. The project was all-consuming for Turan, who conducted 160 in-person interviews, some requiring frequent travel not only to New York from Los Angeles but also to the men and women’actors, directors, choreographers’who were scattered across the country. He moved to New York for six months, interviewed Tommy Lee Jones (who played in Sam Shephard’s ‘True West’) in the desert, and Jason Miller (‘That Championship Season’) in Scranton, Pennsylvania. With 10,000 pages of tape-recorded material, Turan wrote the first draft and gave it to Papp, with whom Turan shared a kinship despite a 20-year gap in their ages. (Both men grew up in Brooklyn in a Yiddish-speaking household.) And then the story became a drama unto itself. ‘A mercurial person under the best of circumstances, Joe was at A low point in his life,’ Turan recalls. ‘He had been diagnosed with the prostate cancer that would kill him three years later, and his son was dying of AIDS. He called me and said, ‘This book is over.’ ‘It was devastating. I put the draft in a box and there it stayed for the next 10 to 12 years.’ While Turan went on with his life and career, the book idea would not die. ‘I thought it was the best work I had done,’ Turan says, ‘so I wrote a letter to Gail Merrifield Papp and told her that I thought it was too important to be dead forever and could we get together to talk about the book.’ She not only agreed with Turan, but seemed to be on his wavelength and encouraged him to revive the project. After 18 years, he re-read the manuscript and saw how it could be envisioned. He sequestered himself at the MacDowell Colony in the New Hampshire woods, and set about shaping and cutting the book. ‘While I was there in my cabin, set among the trees,’ he recalls, ‘it was very disconcerting to be out among all those trees and I really went very deep into the material without distractions. I was really alone with the work and began to realize that my feelings had changed. It had been about me, but now I could see that this book was about these people’s testaments about Papp, and I started to feel an obligation to these people. This was valuable oral history.’ Not only is the reader privy to nascent careers of so many titans in the theatrical world’George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, Tommy Lee Jones, Martin Sheen, Meryl Streep”but also to the nigh-mythical story surrounding Papp’s legacy. Here was this impoverished kid, son of Russian Jews, whose father made tin trunks and whose mother labored to keep a clean house and food on the table. It wasn’t until he was in the Navy that he could count on three meals a day.   While not exactly an intellectual (and most likely the one goofing off in school), Papp nevertheless was fortunate to have seventh-grade teacher Miss McKay, who introduced him to Julius Caesar and his love of Shakespeare. ‘It sounded good,’ he says, ‘and it gave you something you could really chew on and learn.’ Daniel Petrie, who worked with the co-author when Papp was a floor manager at CBS’a job that would sustain his ambitious plans to launch free Shakespeare for all’characterized Papp’s love of Shakespeare as political. ‘He wanted to supply a place where ordinary people could go and experience it.’ Papp demonstrated his political activism as early as his high school years. He joined in demonstrations on Times Square on behalf of the poor who were evicted for past-due rent, raised money for the anti-Franco forces, and, after high school and working for a tough boss, went on strike on behalf of workers’ rights. All through his life, Papp fought for his goal with tenacity, fearlessness and conviction. ‘No’ didn’t compute for him. He prevailed against the powerful New York Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who was opposed to free Shakespeare in Central Park. He faced the House Un-American Activities Committee with his dignity intact. ‘Nobody was torturing me,’ he said. ‘It was just a matter of prison, possibly. I figured, that’s not the worst thing in the world. At least they pay for your room and board.’ Papp was unflinching in his fight to secure a permanent home for the Public Theater, which would provide a venue for contemporary work. His dealings with the developer were classic Papp. According to Papp, the guy, ‘Mr. Big,’ was all business, numb to Papp’s pleas to support public theater, alienated from his Jewishness, unmoved by the significance of the building, a designated landmark. Papp argued with him for more than an hour, until Mr. Big finally gave in. ”Look,’ I said, ‘you should be doing something for the city after all it’s done for you. It would be a disgrace if this building was torn down and we could not use it for this purpose.’ I was not going to leave that place without that building, I’ll tell you that. You get that determination.’ An apt title to be sure, ‘Free for All’ not only defined Papp’s lifelong passion, but also the rough and tumble life he lived to achieve his dream. ‘Theaters like that don’t happen because you get someone who’s going to be pleasing to you,’ producer Robert Whitehead surmised. ‘They happen out of a kind of vital, vigorous craziness which I knew Joe Papp had.’

Susan Angelo Flourishes on Stage

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Susan Angelo refreshes her lines from “Richard III” on her porch, overlooking Santa Monica Bay. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Susan Angelo learned early on that to ‘be the best actress I could possibly be’ would be achieved for her through classical theater. And from the time she was first cast professionally, at 19, as Juliet at the Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, she has been inhabiting Shakespeare’s women, and other classical roles, ever since. She is appearing in ‘Richard III’ at A Noise Within through December 17. Perhaps growing up in a small town on Lake Erie, away from the TV- and film-centered coasts, insulated Angelo from the screen. While she maintains a career in these more lucrative media”Medium,’ ‘Law & Order,’ ‘The Truman Show,’ and a recurring role on ‘Days of Our Lives”she is noted for her numerous theatrical appearances.   Her approach to the craft has been to dig deep, privilege the words and build character from there. Too scared to go to New York after high school, Angelo came to CalArts, where she earned her BFA and realized just how much she had to learn. ‘At that point, at that age, you’re a baby,’ she says. ‘I remember we were studying ‘Macbeth’ and I was cast as Lady Macduff. I knew I was supposed to like it, but I was lost; I didn’t know what to do with my hands.’ She really credits Ellen Geer, artistic director at the Theatricum Botanicum, with opening up Shakespeare for her. ‘There’s nobody like Ellen,’ Angelo says. ‘She trusts her actors and gives us the freedom to create whatever we want.’   Geer, the daughter of actor Will Geer, has worked continuously for 40 years in television and motion pictures. After the death of her father in 1978, she took over as artistic director of Theatrical Botanicum, whose repertory company and theater school continue to emphasize the importance of the classics.   ’Right out of CalArts, this woman/girl arrived and had the most beautiful audition,’ says Geer, recalling her first meeting with Angelo. ‘She was like a gorgeous colt, and just sang out to me, Juliet. After the audition, she sent me a thank-you note with an apple seed inside it. This clinched it for me.’   Angelo’s 20-year relationship with the Theatricum is as close as it can be without being part of the extended Geer family, many of whom are members of the Theatricum’s repertory company and school.   ’It couldn’t have worked out better,’ she says of those first years with the company in the 1980s. ‘I played all Melora Marshall’s ing’nue parts, after Melora [Ellen’s half-sister] took a leave of absence for about five years.’   Angelo found Shakespeare the most freeing vehicle for her talent, once she uncovered the techniques. ‘The time in which he wrote was a ballooning period of exploration in language,’ she says. ‘Like great music, Shakespeare’s poetic language keeps ripening, and as you do it over and over you appreciate it more.   ’Changes in rhythm and meter (e.g., iambic pentameter to anapest) help in clarifying meaning and clues to characters,’ says Angelo, who has a firm background in rhetoric and scansion, and teaches these techniques in the Intensive Shakespeare Seminar at the Theatricum. She is also the director of education at the Theatre. A year ago, Angelo retuned home to Pacific Palisades after a six-year sabbatical in Washington, D.C. and New York, where she completed an MFA at George Washington University with a concentration on Shakespeare and classical texts. ‘I took a five-year break,’ Angelo says. ‘I wanted to be a student, not teach.’ It was in the East where her belief in classical theater was confirmed. ‘There is great classical theater happening in the United States, not in Los Angeles and New York.’ She worked at the Signature and Workshop Theatre in New York City, the Rep in Pittsburgh, the Syracuse Stage, Indiana Rep and American Players Theatre in Wisconsin. Angelo is enjoying her association with A Noise Within, the classical repertory company in Glendale, under the co-artistic direction of Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez. She made her ANW debut last season in ‘The Rehearsal,’ Jean Anouilh’s arch view of 18th-century sexual shenanigans and betrayals.   ’Geoff is a good director,’ Angelo says. ‘He has a clear vision of the play, good understanding of the text, and he gives actors the freedom to explore, but he is there to guide them.’   She views her role as Elizabeth in ‘Richard III’ as a measure of her growth as an actress. Years ago, she played Lady Anne, the young widow who hates Richard for murdering her husband and father-in-law, but falls for his charming entreaty to marriage. Angelo sees these two roles as sort of bookends to the play.   Now living in her aerie in Castellammare with a view of the Pacific, Angelo is glad to be back teaching, doing TV work, and enjoying her life on the stage. Tickets: Call 818-240-0910 ext. 1; visit www.ANoiseWithin.org.

‘Diviners’ Offers a Thoughtful Evening

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Theater Review

In high school productions, quite often after the play is over, parents rise and give a kind of obligatory standing ovation. At the Palisades Charter High School fall production of ‘The Diviners: A Play in Two Acts and Elegies,’ this reviewer was the first person standing to applaud the outstanding performance given by Julian Schwartzman. Schwartzman plays 14-year-old Buddy Layman, a boy left mentally disabled after a near drowning when he was three. His mother had died while saving him. As a result of that early traumatic experience, Buddy is good at locating water by using a divining rod. And yet, not surprisingly, he is terrified of water and refuses to bathe. Set in the small town of Zion, Indiana, during the Depression, this drama by Jim Leonard, Jr. depicts a close-knit community that has been without a church or a preacher for a decade. So when a wandering ex-minister, C.C. Showers (played by Sean Pinto), drifts into town, many of the people see him as someone who can help the boy and restore religious order. But Showers has given up preaching because he lost his faith, and he resists the well-meaning attempts by residents to reinstate him to his profession. When Showers discovers that Buddy needs to take a bath, he exploits the mutual trust he and Buddy have developed to entreat Buddy to go into the river, with serious consequences. Pinto, reminiscent of a young Jimmy Stewart, is likeable as Showers, and the interaction between him and Schwartzman is lovely. Eli Shavalian, who plays Buddy’s father, Ferris, is good as a Midwestern guy upset over losing his wife years ago. He invests the character with just the right amount of stoicism. The role of Jennie Mae is double-cast with Devon Baur and Tasha Solomita. The night the play was reviewed, Baur was sweet. Her innocence was exactly appropriate while trying to argue with the minister that, as a 16-year-old, it was okay to date him. ‘My mom was married at 17,’ she says. The stage lit up whenever Darlene (DeAdra Davis) made an entrance. We’ve all heard the story of Adam and Eve many times, but Davis’ spunky way of explaining the story was hugely entertaining. The two farmhands, played by Tucker Best and Jake Schievink, provided nice comic relief. They were threatened by their employer Basil (David Mitchell) more than once that they would be replaced by a tractor. At times throughout the play, songs performed by the cast serve as background to establish the period. Credit goes to music director Elena Loper, also a senior, who wrote, arranged and taught hymns and music to the cast. Bravo! Well done! Designing costumes for a period piece (on a public school budget) had to be a challenge, but senior Katie Lantz did an excellent job. She also played an overbearing storekeeper. The staging of the show is imaginative. I’m still marveling over how Lexi Rubaum, the technical director and scenic designer, fashioned a rainstorm on stage (yes, actual rain!) Although I wasn’t crazy about Leonard’s play overall, I have nothing but praise for director Lisa Kraus, who achieved quite a feat by including 26 students on stage in an 11-person play by incorporating them as members of the Zion community. ‘The Diviners’ plays December 10, 11 and 12 at 7 p.m., with a matinee at 3 p.m. on December 12 at Mercer Hall on campus. Tickets at the door are $12 for adults and $10 for students.

Torfeh’s Classical March to the Stage

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Bryan Torfeh. Photo: Courtesy of Chamber Music Palisades
Bryan Torfeh. Photo: Courtesy of Chamber Music Palisades

While actor Bryan Torfeh admits that the narrator’s challenge will be balancing the feel of the music with what’s happening in the story, and knowing when its his turn, his job will be easier because he reads music.   ’In a sense, I am one of the musicians,’ he says. ‘I am running the dialogue with the musicians, just keeping the story moving forward and keeping the voices distinct.’   Torfeh came to acting in an odd reverse from the experience of many kids who ache for a theater career.   ’When I was 14 or 15, I announced to my parents that I was going to law school,’ he recalls.   Most dads would be thrilled with such an ambition, but not his.   ’My dad was so disappointed,’ Torfeh says, adding, ‘I had a prejudiced dad who was an actor and had trained at the Birmingham Theater School.’   Growing up in Pacific Palisades, Torfeh studied music with Delores Stevens, who for many years just taught him theory, harmony, voice leading and chamber music, but not piano. He had another teacher for that.   ’One day, Dee said that she could teach me piano,’ Torfeh says. ‘I, being rebellious at the time, said that ‘I’ll only do Chopin and Beethoven.’ She said, ‘OK,’ and, as time went on, of course I opened up and she got me back in.’ Torfeh is still is very close to the Stevens, especially with their son, Paul. The two boys attended Windward High School., after which Torfeh did not go to London but instead studied theater at UC Santa Cruz, where he received ‘phenomenal training. I had done a couple of summer stock gigs in New England, but also with the Pacific Conservancy of the Performing Arts [PCPA] in Santa Maria, which is a well-respected resident company of theater professionals and training ground for actors and theater technicians on the Central Coast.’   In 1980, Torfeh signed a contract for the summer with PCPA, where he encountered his first taste of the realities of life for an actor. After three days auditioning for all the plays in the repertory and receiving positive nods for his reading of Shakespeare, ‘I was cast for virtually nothing. I realized that if you’re not a graduate of a theater-training program, such as Yale or Juilliard, people don’t take you seriously. I have worked in regional theater, but in terms of people under 50, maybe two percent had not gone on to an MFA program.’ Torfeh’s mentors at Santa Cruz advised him that he should really go to England.   So to England he went, to study for three years at Guildhall in the early 1980s. After graduation, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remained for 10 years.   ’In those days, actors in England had families, a real life,’ Torfeh says. ‘Very few actors had survival jobs, as they do in the States. But, by the 1990s, London was getting to be just like New York, and I was tired of being poor, and realized that this was not how I wanted to spend my life.’   Torfeh auditioned for Barry Manilow’s ‘Copacabana’ in the West End and played Mafia leader Rico. All of a sudden, he was making real money and getting a mortgage.   He now lives in the Kings Cross neighborhood of London. He hasn’t gone back to the major companies; instead, he makes a living directing Shakespeare in drama schools and acting in musical theater.   The spoken word work came about when Torfeh was playing Salieri in ‘Amadeus’ in Sarasota. A local symphony was doing ‘Fa’ade,’ based on the series of poems by Edith Sitwell, which were given an orchestral accompaniment by Sitwell’s prot’g’ William Walton. ‘The piece is more sound than sense,’ Torfeh explains. ‘It requires a dozen musicians and a narrator.’ Torfeh took the narrator’s part, and then more of the same kind of work came along, including ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ and ‘Babar, The Elephant,’ for a children’s concert. Torfeh will remain in the States through Christmas, visiting with his two brothers and their families. He says that he has nothing scheduled for next year as yet, except for a Shakespeare workshop in April with William Hobbs, the renowned fight director for ‘The Three Musketeers’ and ‘The Duellists,’ who has written a play about a traveling troupe. Sounds familiar.

Shakespearean Actor Bryan Torfeh to Perform with Chamber Music Palisades

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When Bryan Torfeh takes the stage with members of Chamber Music Palisades (CMP) on December 15, no visible instrument will be in sight, but he will play three parts in conveying Stravinsky’s ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ (‘The Soldier’s Tale’) for the CMP audience. Torfeh not only will act as narrator but must also ride the emotional vortex of the story, enlivening the plight of the soldier, The Devil, and the princess. The concert takes place at 8 p.m. at St. Matthew’s, 1031 Bienveneda. Torfeh”whose credits include ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ in the U.K. and on Broadway, and the American premiere of Tom Stoppard’s ‘Hapgood”’adds his classical-trained lilt to a program that also includes ‘Duo for Flute and Piano’ by Aaron Copland, and ‘Then and Now and Forever’ by Morton Subotnick. In addition, the concert features chamber artists Ida Levin, violin, Joshua Ranz, clarinet, Carolyn Beck, bassoon, Alex Iles, trombone, Jon Lewis, trumpet, Edward Atkatz, percussion, and Nico Abondolo, bass, who join CMP co-founders/co-artistic directors Susan Greenberg, flute, and Delores Stevens, piano. KUSC’s Alan Chapman will provide commentary. Stravinsky originally scored ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ with just seven instruments: clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion. His original concept included three actors and dancers. The concert version will dispense with the dance. The story is based on an old Russian folk tale, but the music comes from 1918, when jazz was just beginning to enter the mainstream. ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ is rich with shifting rhythms and elements of jazz, waltz and ragtime. The plot is Faustian, relating the story of a deserting soldier who trades his violin to the Devil for a book that predicts the future of the economy. But, ultimately, he finds he’s sold his soul to the Devil. The soldier’s violin becomes a symbol of the soldier’s soul and the Devil’s wiles. Copland composed ‘Duo for Flute and Piano’ in 1971 for a commission in honor of flutist William Kincaid. Considered Copland’s last important work, ‘Duo’ has a lyrical and relaxed opening that develops into a pensive second movement and ends in a lively virtuosic county dance. Subotnick, one of the pioneers of electronic music and multimedia performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media (including interactive computer music systems), has also composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles and theatre. ‘Then and Now and Forever’ was written as one continuous 15-minute movement with several sections that return in subtle varied utterances. It was commissioned and premiered by the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society in 2008. For tickets ($25; students with ID are free), call 310-463-4388; visit www.cmpalisades.org.

Glasgall Wins Council’s Service Award

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Highlands resident Paul Glasgall heads a group of volunteers that has been trained by the police to help with radar enforcement on Palisades Drive. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer
Highlands resident Paul Glasgall heads a group of volunteers that has been trained by the police to help with radar enforcement on Palisades Drive. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

After speaking with Jim Horowitz in Councilman Bill Rosendahl’s office, handling a call from LAPD Captain Nancy Lauer (commander of the West Traffic Division), and taking a break from work at Sotheby’s International Realty, Paul Glasgall sat down in his office on Sunset Boulevard to discuss his volunteer activities. In recognition of his outstanding, long-term activism, Glasgall will receive a Community Service Award from the Pacific Palisades Community Council tonight at 7 p.m. in the Temescal Gateway Park dining hall. Glasgall, a native of Brooklyn, has been active in the Palisades Highlands since 1981, when he moved here from Encino following his divorce. In 1991, after joining Homeowners’ Association 1, and later serving as vice president for that group, he was selected chairman of the Highlands Presidents’ Council, which oversees 19 associations, representing 1,400 homes and about 5,000 people. ‘Councilman [Marvin] Braude asked for a report on trying to get more parkland,’ said Glasgall, who explained that two of the areas sought were in the Highlands and that the Presidents’ Council fought their acquisition. ‘From our perspective, they never came to us first to discuss the issue; one of the pieces of land was private, and we didn’t want any additional traffic.’ After 16 years, Glasgall stepped down from the chairman’s position in 2007. ‘I could have kept going, but sometimes you need new blood in an organization.’ He remains active, however, which is why he was on the phone with Horwitz discussing the Santa Ynez Reservoir project that was finally underway way. (It was supposed to be completed by 2006.) Glasgall was one of the original residents who fought for aesthetics, as well as practicality, when the Department of Water and Power presented plans in 2002 to either cover the reservoir with aluminum or build a 15- to 25-million-gallon concrete tank to hold the water. (Continued on Page 3) ‘All of the people in the city we worked with agreed to a book of things,’ said Glasgall, who was frustrated that some of the details weren’t being followed. ‘There is no flagman on Palisades Drive, no warning at all, and big trucks are pulling out onto the road, where cars are doing 50.’ He warned the Councilman’s office that unless something was done immediately, he would file a court order to stop the project. ‘In the original agreement they said they would landscape around the reservoir and it would blend in with the colored asphalt, but now that company is out of business and the DWP is talking about painting the asphalt,’ said Glasgall, adding that the original committee had spent at least a day downtown every month ironing out details. ‘It’s like a being a contractor: you have to watch them [the city] every two minutes, in case there’s a problem,’ he said. After Glasgall sent a photo of the trucks pulling out onto the roadway to Rosendahl’s office and the DWP, a flag person was in place the following day. Traffic warning signs were also posted, as trucks continue to haul out debris and pieces of a demolished concrete tower. Glasgall, 56, has been a member of the Community Council since 1994, when the bylaws were changed to add representatives from eight neighborhoods as voting members. ‘I’ve run unopposed every year except last year, when I won by one vote,’ he said, noting that the votes are not made public. ‘I would like to see the results published.’ He suspects that ‘they don’t want to show how few people vote for their representation.’ He was on a subcommittee of the Council that negotiated with CVS on Swarthmore to beautify the exterior of the store. ‘It sure looks better than it did,’ said Glasgall, who is also a member of the Community Police Advisory Board. An area in which Glasgall has increased his activism is trying to slow down traffic on Palisades Drive. He is the head of Speedwatch, a subgroup of the Safe Westside committee that was formed after Palisades High School senio, Nick Rosser was killed in a car accident on Palisades Drive last January. ‘I oversee a radar group,’ he said, explaining that originally 10 people were trained to use a radar gun on Palisades Drive. If a car is clocked traveling more than 15 mph over the speed limit, Glasgall or one of the team members uses a digital camera to record the car make and license plate. That information is sent to the police, who then send out a letter to the registered owner, alerting spouses or parents of speeding issues. ‘Now there are only four of our group,’ Glasgall said. ‘The others didn’t want to keep doing it or were too busy, but a group of five more are going to be trained.’ Working as a team with the police, Glasgall is amazed at the mindset of Westside residents, who he terms ‘the entitlement generation.’ He’s continually surprised at the number of adult speeders who, when pulled over by the police, say, ‘Why aren’t you doing more about the kids?’ Glasgall said that the interaction between police officers and the people pulled over is recorded. ‘People are arrogant and rude to the officers,’ he said, and his own group has received similar treatment. ‘Some people stop and harangue us, others flip us the bird and some call us stoolies for the police,’ Glasgall said. ‘We’re just trying to get the community to slow down. It’s not us against them.’ Glasgall, a graduate of Poly Tech engineering school in New York, with a master’s degree in business from Indiana University, came to California in 1967 to work for Douglas Aircraft. He moved to investing and worked with Bear Stearns and then Kidder Peabody through 1998, when he switched to real estate. With the little time he has between his job and volunteer efforts, he spends time in the kitchen preparing gourmet meals or works on his photography.

Donations Continue to Pour in for PaliHi Pool; Opening Set for April

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With the Maggie Gilbert Aquatic Center set for completion in April, Palisades Charter High School has raised roughly $3.2 million of the $4.6 million needed, according to PaliHi’s Chief Business Officer Greg Wood. The board of directors postponed making a decision on whether to take out a loan to finance the remainder of the project at a November 17 meeting. School leaders hope to raise all of the necessary funding for the 12-lane competitive pool and adjacent two-lane teaching pool at the corner of Temescal Canyon Road and Bowdoin Street.   On November 4, the school raised $7,500 from a phone-a-thon. Jeanne Goldsmith, a fundraising consultant hired by the school, said she is continuing to contact foundations and individuals to request money. More neighborhood parties are planned in 2010.   Frank Ryan, who was hired by PaliHi’s Booster Club (a separate entity from the school) to raise funds for the pool, is focusing his efforts on foundations. He is applying to 62 foundations and should have all the material delivered to them by the end of the month.   ’I am sending out a number of requests as fast as I can,’ said Ryan, brother-in-law of Dorothianne Henne, Booster Club treasurer.   Thus far, English teacher Rose Gilbert has donated more than $2 million toward construction costs, and the aquatic center will be named after her late daughter, Maggie. The Palisades Booster Club is the second-largest contributor, thus far, with $150,000.   Other major donors include the American Legion, giving more than $50,000; Palisadians Don and Debbie Mink, $50,000; Palisadians Sari and Matthew Ross, $25,000; and the Kelton Fund, $25,000. Paul and Dorothianne Henne (parents of swim coach Maggie Nance) personally gave and have raised more than $30,000. Dorothianne Henne is also the office manager for the pool contractor, Sarlan Builders in Beverly Hills. Donors who have given between $10,000 and $15,000 include: the Optimist Club, Gillian Fuller Foundation, Ralph L. Smith Foundation, Jin Kwok (owner of the Shell Station at Sunset and Via de la Paz), Palisadians Tom and Terry Hacker, Bill and Cindy Simon and Michael and Claire Van Konynenburg.   Those who have given $5,000 or more are: Jessie Barker McKellar Foundation, Riviera Lodge 780, Junior Women’s Club, Cal National Bank, Susan Zolla Foundation, Paradyme Trust, Palisadians Paul and Alicia Silka, Chris and Mary Ellen Kanoff, Everett and Nancy Maguire, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Bo and Candace Hirsch, Joanne and Wade Bourne, John and Suzanne Ball, and Mike Skinner.   ’We have had hundreds of other people donate, some two or three times, ranging from small donations to thousands of dollars each time, from business owners and homeowners in the area to PaliHi alumni,’ Goldsmith said, noting that the community needs to help bridge the $1.4-million shortfall.   Until the end of 2009, the school is selling wall tiles (which will be displayed inside the aquatic center complex) for $400, with room for 15 words or two lines of text. The tile can be a gift to honor a swimmer, a graduate of PaliHi or an entire family. To purchase a tile, visit www.palihigh.org or call Goldsmith at (310) 454-9033.

Barbara Kohn Honored for Her Activism

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Barbara Kohn on the beach near her home in Pacific Palisades. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer
Barbara Kohn on the beach near her home in Pacific Palisades. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Starting in the late 1960s, Occidental Petroleum began pursuing a plan to construct an oil derrick along Pacific Coast Highway, just east of Temescal Canyon ‘ a proposal that Pacific Palisades resident Barbara Kohn could not bear to see happen.   ’We moved to Pacific Palisades in 1965, and it was such a beautiful area,’ Kohn said during a recent interview at her home near the Getty Villa. ‘I did not want to drive by an industrial project every single day. It didn’t seem compatible.’   In 1974, Kohn joined No Oil, a Palisades-driven organization opposing the project. As the chief financial officer, she handled all the banking. She also participated in fundraisers and gathered signatures to get a citywide initiative on the ballot to ban oil drilling 1,000 yards from the mean high-tide line. After years of heated public hearings and court battles, No Oil received ultimate victory in 1988 when Los Angeles voters approved the initiative, Proposition O.   ’It was remarkable; there were volunteers from all over the city. It was really critical to everyone,’ said Kohn, who relinquished her duties as chief financial officer this year. The organization still exists in case there is ever a threat of oil drilling again.   For her efforts and for her 35 years of volunteer service through other community organizations, the Pacific Palisades Community Council is giving Kohn a Community Service Award tonight at the Council’s potluck meeting at Temescal Gateway Park.   ’Barbara has generously given her time and expertise to the community and has been a tenacious defender of the Palisades,’ Council Chair Richard G. Cohen said.   The same year that Kohn joined No Oil, she became a member of the Pacific Palisades Residents Association (PPRA). She has served as president since 2002.   ’Once I got involved, it was interesting, so I stayed involved,’ Kohn said, noting that many PPRA members were also a part of No Oil.   With PPRA, she helped preserve land in the Santa Monica Mountains as state parkland in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the late ’80s, PPRA negotiated a settlement with the City of L.A. and the developer that limited the development of the Palisades Highlands by establishing an urban limit line that guarantees open space.   Kohn’s proudest accomplishment with the organization is getting a covenant on the four-acre parcel at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Temescal Canyon Road, which the Palisades-Malibu YMCA purchased in fall 2007, so there could never be drilling of any kind on that property.   ’That was a big effort and required a lot of perseverance,’ Kohn said. In addition to being active with No Oil and PPRA, she has served on the Pacific View Estates Homeowners Association since the 1970s and as president from 1993 to 2001. She has also been on the Pacific Palisades Community Council since 2000.   In 2005, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, representing District 11, appointed Kohn to the Regional Volunteer Neighborhood Oversight Committee. As part of that group, she visits city parks with other volunteers to determine which facilities are in most need of Proposition K money.   Proposition K, passed in 1996, creates a citywide assessment district that generates $25 million each year for 30 years to improve and maintain city parks and recreation facilities as well as to acquire land for open space.   Since 2006, Kohn has been on the Getty Villa Community Relations Committee, which meets once a month to discuss neighborhood issues regarding the operation of the Villa.   Over the years, Kohn has juggled volunteering with work and family. With the help of her husband Ben (a doctor), she raised two sons, Russell of Agoura Hills and Ken of Encino. She has two grandchildren, Michael, 10, and David, 7.   Kohn, who graduated from Los Angeles High and earned her bachelor’s degree in business from UCLA, operated an antique and collectables store on Fifth and Wilshire in Santa Monica for 24 years. After the 1994 earthquake, she moved to the Santa Monica Antique Market on Lincoln Boulevard for 12 years and then she relocated to the Culver City Antique Center on Sepulveda Boulevard until February. She designed and made her own jewelry.   Right now, Kohn is busy advocating for the city to pass a new comprehensive ordinance that would regulate cell-tower installations in the City of Los Angeles. She and fellow PPRA member Chris Spitz are speaking to neighborhood councils, encouraging them to send letters to the city to prevent the proliferation of cell towers in public right of ways.   ’From the early days of fighting against oil drilling through her work on preserving open space, and more recently her work on cell towers and limiting development, Barbara has been a remarkable advocate for the preservation of the Palisades we all love,’ Cohen said.

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