Elizabeth Ann Tullis (1948 - 2015) - Elizabeth Ann Tullis, 66, of Novato, Calif., passed away Feb. 19, 2015, after a courageous battle with liver cancer. She was born March 9, 1948, in Bethesda, Md., to Dr. John L. and Frances (Dwyer) Tullis.
George Manahan to Conduct, Stan Lai to Stage San Francisco Opera's DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER World Premiere; Preview Set for Next Week! - Stan Lai (Lai Shengchuan) is one of the most acclaimed playwright/directors in Asia, known not only for creating some of the most memorable works for the contemporary Chinese stage but also for creating bold new genres and staging innovations. He is artistic director of Performance Workshop in Taiwan and festival artistic director of China's Wuzhen Theatre. (I did a few things in Taiwan with Sandra Woodall for Stan Lai)
The lead guitarist of rock bank Journey says he got ripped off by San Francisco officials who quadrupled the price of his lavish 2013 wedding after finding out he planned to show it live on pay-per-view at $15 an order....Journey is best known for its song “Don’t Stop Believin’,” and Salahi is best known for crashing a 2009 White House state dinner with her previous husband, prompting a federal investigation of the security breach. - SF Chronicle
Jupiter Ascending wasn't an SF movie, but the Wachowskis showed us the final cut that they had just finished when they were here doing Sense8. The press is kinda down on it and my first thought was that the Wachowskis had thrown everything but the kitchen sink into it. But it captured my imagination and I couldn't shake the images for a couple of days, they're still with me. So my next thought was they had succeeded in incorporating a bunch of archetypes into an action movie like George Lucas did in the first Star Wars. They are not prescreening it for critics, usually not a good sign, but I think they are on to something. I liked it better than anything else I saw this year, even allowing that I was partial to Lucy being set in Taipei. Go see it and tell me what you think.
