I just needed to kick start the blogging process again. Most recently, today,
I went to TBE Jewish Film festival and saw "The Hank Greenspun Story." A documentary
about publisher of the Nevada Sun Times life. It was mesmerizing. It sued a stylistic trick of an old typewriter writing out beginning story lines. It had several components - all of a piece. He was a war hero -WW2. He was an immigrant son of a streetwise Jewish Mom who ran a local convenience store and an ethereal father who studied talmud and had a framing business.
Coming back from WW2 he tried different gigs - getting a law degree and practicing criminal law in NYC - but it was going nowhere. He and an acquaintance decide to set off to Las Vegas and pursue their fortune. He uproots his young family and heads west for fame, fortune and adventure.
He has run-ins with the Mob, Joe McCarthy, the IRS, Richard Nixon, Senator McCarran of Nevada; does gun running for the Haganah, negoiates an Israeli peace agreement with the Saudis , - and all the while is a much beloved father and husband. A remarkable figure.
The movie gives a succinct history of the US, Israel, Las Vegas, Atomic Testing from a deeply personal hands on perspective. Wonderful - thumbs up.
So unto moderniste cuisine and the E-restaurant - where Kate and I ate last Thursday night. A disclaimer as all of you know I am not a foodie and would dine on tuna and yams for long stretches. Kate has had here a foretaste of M-cuisine in NY at WD40 and of course last summer we pilgrimaged (sic) to El Bulli on the Costa Brava. We had just scheduled a spring break mini-holiday in Vegas - so that I could do more probability research and Kate could join the throng seeing Lady Gaga. As in now our custom we decided on looking for a new high end eating experience and Kate came upon a "secret" M-restaurant within a restaurant in a new hotel "The Cosmopolitan."
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