One rainy afternoon in February 2007, I went to see "Dreamgirls" in Westwood. Afterwards, on impulse, I started shooting mpeg movies with my still camera. This is an attempt to tease a meaningful theme out of footage that I shot randomly, with no theme in mind. I attended UCLA Film School, so Westwood Village was my college town. It was also, in the 1970s and '80s, the moviegoing center of Los Angeles. It had taken that title away from Hollywood Boulevard in the 1960s, as the "Boulevard of ...