Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell is an LA-based film historian and critic, author of "Progressive Hollywood: A People’s Film History of the United States," and co-author of "The Hawaii Movie and Television Book." He has written for Variety, Television Quarterly, Cineaste, New Times L.A., and other publications. Rampell lived in Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, and Micronesia, reporting on the nuclear-free and independent Pacific and Hawaiian Sovereignty movements.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell

Arts

Review: Smiling through the Apocalypse, Esquire in the 60s
October 7, 2014 By Ed Rampell
Esquire editor Harold Hayes was arguably to magazines what famous literary editor Maxwell Perkins (editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe) was to novels.
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Arts

“The Trip To Bountiful” in review
September 29, 2014 By Ed Rampell
The entire house rose at the premiere to give Cicely Tyson and the cast a well-deserved standing ovation.
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Arts

A playwright named “Shagspeare” in Bill Cain’s “Equivocation”
September 24, 2014 By Ed Rampell
"Shag" for short receives a royal commission to write about Guy Fawkes and England's 1605 Gunpowder Plot.
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Arts

“Persians” theater review: War is Hades
September 22, 2014 By Ed Rampell
"Outrage, once ripened, yields a bumper crop of retribution."
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Arts

The Los Angeles Swiss Film Festival in review
September 17, 2014 By Ed Rampell
Swiss cinema and television has a rich heritage. This motion picture plenitude was on full display at Hollywood's Harmony Gold Theater on Sept. 7.
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Environment

Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman warns about nuclear nightmares
September 12, 2014 By Ed Rampell
"The thyroid cancer death rate for children in the Fukushima area is 40 times higher than normal; tuna caught near California have signs of cesium traceable to Fukushima."
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Arts

For Whom the Whistle Blows: “The Kill Team”
August 14, 2014 By Ed Rampell
This documentary's real target market are those young impressionable people who have bought into the madness of Washington's endless imperial misadventures.
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Arts

Robey Theatre Company celebrates with Paul Robeson Theatre Festival
August 5, 2014 By Ed Rampell
The two-day Festival celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Robey Theatre Company, dedicated to developing "innovative new plays written about the Black experience."
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