Gas-guzzling guilt trips
– plus a couple of crazy birds
The Hollywood-Hollister connection continues as Sony is coming
out with a box set of director/producer Stanley Kramers films
including his ode to Hollister
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The Wild One
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with Marlon Brando at his most sensual.
Gas-guzzling guilt trips – plus a couple of crazy birds
The Hollywood-Hollister connection continues as Sony is coming out with a box set of director/producer Stanley Kramers films including his ode to Hollister “The Wild One” with Marlon Brando at his most sensual.
Kramer produced or directed “High Noon”, ” Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, “The Defiant Ones” and my second favorite all time talkie, “Inherit the Wind,” which should be shown to every teenager and adult not only for its great acting by Spencer Tracy, or its entertainment value, but more importantly to make one think whether you agree with it or not.
Unlike Al Gore’s recent Academy Award for his theory on global warming Kramer never said you had to believe in evolution but at least debate it. Gore and his rich Hollywood friends, living in spreads, wasting thousands of times more energy in one day than you do in five years, would like you to believe global warming is solely your fault. Their seldom used heated pools and two to a limo are necessities, but your SUV used to haul the neighborhood kids makes you suspect of depleting our natural resources and bringing about the end of the world. Damn you soccer moms and those who sleep with you.
Another only in Hollister. One of Hollister’s most respected and beloved ministers is giving a talk about his tour in Iraq as a Chaplain, only to be heckled by some self righteous lefty, a lawyer at that, so no surprise about the intellect level or decency. He’s a new lawyer in Hollister whose business hopefully will be as tiny as his manhood. To make matters worse, when his legal briefs fail him, he resorts to flipping off the minister and I don’t mean because he wanted to make the Chaplain a bird colonel.
Went to this posh Hollywood eatery that Brad Pitt used to frequent on an almost daily basis. El Pollo Loco, very chic with food that cannot be found anywhere else but on the corner of La Brea and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Always bumping into stars there, but I was more than shocked to find my favorite character actor, Alex Desert, in line with tray in hand, I mean sitting at a corner booth with white table cloth and champagne at the ready. Alex played the blind news vendor on one of my favorite TV series of a few years ago, “Becker,” starring Ted Danson of “Cheers” fame.
Alex played the blind guy as no blind guy has been played since Jimmy Carter our only blind to reality president and current Israel basher.
Alex’ character was written smartly in a show that was smartly written…until. Yep, until they made the same old mistake they always make when they have a hit show. They change it. “Becker” was a great doctor but lousy date material and the hook each week was the sexual tension between he and the owner of the diner where Alex Desert had his stand and his dessert. As in “Cheers”, characters right out of Hollister’s Johnny’s Bar and Grill would wander in and out. Becker was always being set up on dates from hell which was the fun of the show.
But like Rhoda Morgenstern, Mary Tyler Moore’s sidekick, the studio brass without the B or R said hey the show is such a big hit with all the wacky dates let’s kill the show and have Rhoda (Becker) fall in love and just date one person. Yeah, just like marriage, that was a hell of an invention.
Speaking of Pollo Loco Ferlin Husky and crazy Mexicans, I just love the 50 cent Lance and their near racist most wanted photos that warn you that these hardened criminals could be armed and dangerous. Most of them are pictured as though Nick Nolte’s mug shot is the norm, while their crime which may make them armed and dangerous, are minor drug charges. Wonder if most were white if the column and pictures would continue?
I remember several years ago asking the then police chief of Hollister who had his officers park in front of mostly Mexican bars at closing time in order to write up DUIs, if he would get the same results if officers were parked outside Hollister’s wanna be but laughable country club? Looking rather stupid he said nothing. But in his defense he always looked stupid. Aye chee waa waa.
Does daylight savings time really save more energy? Economic studies prove perhaps not. But like Al Gore’s global warming theory it makes us feel good, so why ruin a good feeling with facts.
What? I’m not the biggest and best you’ve ever had? Aye chee waa waa.
