Noel Anenberg served with the United States Navy in Vietnam. In 2005 he volunteered to serve aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71 in the Gulf of Arabia as an adjunct-professor of English in the Navy's College at Sea Program, NPACE.
He holds a USC Bachelor of Arts (1971) and a USC Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing (2003). From 1975 through 2005 he owned and operated a small gasoline and car wash chain.
He has written screenplays on the first black Marines, “Gunny McGuire,” the 10th Mountain Division’s heroic WWII contributions in Italy, “McCaulay’s Mountain, and “The Barber’s Tale,” the story of a how a young Polish barber survived Auschwitz by cutting hair. He is a free-lance contributor to the Los Angeles Times and its Kids Reading Room along with other publications. He is currently completing a novel. Mr. Anenberg’s career shift was featured in the Wall Street Journal.
He and his wife of thirty-four years have two wonderful adult children, a new son-in-law, and a Golden Retriever named “Howie.” He is an avid surfer, skier, and snowboarder.
Noel Anenberg
‘Whatever’ Doesn’t Work: An Email from God to Woody Allen
by Noel AnenbergFrom: God<god@heaven.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:03:37 -0700 (PDT)
To: Woody<woody.allen@mischugana.com>
Subject: Your latest verkaktah film.
Dear Woody,
Would it kill you to pick up the phone and call your father once in a while? That’s what happens with kids they get to smart for their own good and think they don’t need me.
And now, you come out with this “Whatever Works” film. What, you think that shemdrick Larry David who plays that louse Yellnikoff can out match me with a formula? Never happen! I created formulas. In one of his rants he tried to pull a fast one on the audience about Job. Yellnikoff whined that all that Job got for his piousness was suffering. So, why suffer? Right? Wrong. I was teaching Job how to be patient! Something you, Yellnikoff, and apparently that David character have never learned. (more…)
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Our High Noon: …so that you and your descendants may live
by Noel AnenbergI call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and earth, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live… — Deuteronomy 30:19
It’s 11:57 in Hadleyville. The movie is “High Noon.” Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) seals an envelope containing his last will and testament. He writes, “To be opened in the event of my death,” on its front panel. A train carrying a freed murderer, Frank Miller, who wants to gun Kane down will arrive in just three minutes.
Marshall Kane has been abandoned by everyone. All that he believed is tarnished. He stands alone without a badge, with only his conscience. His new bride, the church, the state, old friends and allies have all turned their backs. (more…)
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War and Hollywood: Then and Now
by Noel AnenbergPresident-elect Obama’s election and inauguration is a victory for wisdom in the war against ignominious hate. President Obama will inherit a nation which, by the unwavering commitment of President George W. Bush, has taken the steps necessary to stop Terror Inc., in its tracks. Hollywood Studios which, let us not forget, remain on Al Qaeda’s hit list, have continued to produce films of protest to the former President’s war policies and defamatory to his character. They thrive and get rich by hating him. Rather than support our President and our troops, rather than vilifying our enemy, Hollywood has in the main chosen to vilify those sworn to protect it. Hollywood has indeed changed. Let’s compare Hollywood’s response to WWII to its response to 9/11 and our war effort.
Classic and contemporary Hollywood feature films about America’s heroic contribution to victory in World War II are legion. My favorite three classics are “Casablanca,” the splendid “Victory at Sea” (NBC TV), and “The Longest Day.” During, and for some time after World War II, most American filmmakers celebrated the American fighting spirit which, once awakened, crushed Nazism, defanged the Imperialist Japanese and corralled Communism. Then, American film critics were generally supportive. A glance at reviews published about “Victory At Sea,” contemporary with the series’ release in 1952, are illuminative. The New York Times praised the series for its “rare power”; The New Yorker pronounced the combat footage “beyond compare;” Harper’s proclaimed that “‘Victory at Sea’ [has] created a new art form.” The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Harper’s sing praises of war! The horror, the horror. (more…)
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