PLATFORM : Sidewalk Enterprise A Los Angeles city task force recently recommended liberalizing the laws governing street vendors. DORA ALICIA ALARCON, a Salvadoran immigrant and founding member of the Street Vendors Assn., served on the panel. She told The Times:
WAR WATCH : To Battle Because Bush Is Impatient? GEORGE MILLER, Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) left for the Persian Gulf on Sunday with a congressional leadership delegation. Next, War Watch will hear again from Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove). Troops and tanks move. Washington and Baghdad hurl threats across the continents. Is it all talk, or a real run-up to war? The Times asked some of California's members of Congress to interpret the signs as the days count down to President Bush's Jan. 15 deadline
Film Critics Should Review the Movie, Not the Book MAGGIE GREENWALD, Greenwald is the director of "The Kill Off," which won the New Directors Competition at Edinburgh and the Best Director award at the Torino Film Festival. Her next film will be "Savage Night," based on the Jim Thompson novel. and
Remembering Tidyman and His Work on 'Shaft' CHRIS CLARK, A screenwriter, Clark was nominated for an Oscar as co-writer of "Lady Sings the Blues." She is the widow of writer Ernest Tidyman