Cinema History at Chavez Ravine
With so much media attention surrounding the Los Angeles Dodgers this season — whether for the team’s league-leading performance or for Manny throwing elbow pads (and receiving Nietzschean analysis in the pages of the Los Angeles Times) — one story from Dodgertown deserves special attention: This week Bob Mitchell, the “organist who was the first such house musician at Dodger Stadium and the last surviving working accompanist from the silent-film era” died at age 96 (click here for more on Mitchell’s fascinating life in the LA Times). RIP.