Bob bumps into the Hiltons
What I love about Hollywood number 69. A couple weeks ago after
the Barbara Walters Walk of Fame Star ceremony we decided to have
lunch at our favorite sandwich shop on Hollywood Boulevard.
Graumans Chinese Theatre is in the middle of our two-block walk to
Shelly’s and there is Johnny Knoxville standing outside the famed
show palace talking to fans with tourists taking their picture with
him. On the way back from the best egg salad sandwich rivaled only
by Hollister’s once upon a time Whalen’s Drug Store counter, we
bump into Paris Hilton’s mom and sister. And no they were not
”
dining
”
on egg salad sandwiches but were coming back from the social
thrown by Walters. Their appearance led most to believe that
their
”
friend
”
Barbara was going to have the jailbird’s post incarceration
interview.
Bob bumps into the Hiltons
What I love about Hollywood number 69. A couple weeks ago after the Barbara Walters Walk of Fame Star ceremony we decided to have lunch at our favorite sandwich shop on Hollywood Boulevard. Graumans Chinese Theatre is in the middle of our two-block walk to Shelly’s and there is Johnny Knoxville standing outside the famed show palace talking to fans with tourists taking their picture with him. On the way back from the best egg salad sandwich rivaled only by Hollister’s once upon a time Whalen’s Drug Store counter, we bump into Paris Hilton’s mom and sister. And no they were not “dining” on egg salad sandwiches but were coming back from the social thrown by Walters. Their appearance led most to believe that their “friend” Barbara was going to have the jailbird’s post incarceration interview.
Apparently she was but then the greedy Hiltons, down to their last billion, decided to ask for a million for the interview. NBC the Nobody Broadcast System as in nobody watches, needed the ratings and came up with the million and ready to pay for news. Well apparently Barbara was furious and spilled the details about NBC which of course made reporters mad as the company has been on a layoff spree due to “budget” cuts. Of course NBC denied they were buying news just as Dan Rather denied he made up the news. And they turn their noses down on Fox. Thank you Barbara, the more people know about ABC, CBS and NBC, the more informed we will all be. Like my L.A. Times who thinks their print doesn’t stink, it does.
Kyra Sedgwick is terrific in “The Closer,” on TNT and posted record breaking numbers for this years season opener. By the way, she doesn’t look the same in person as she does on her hot show. Saw her and hubby Kevin Bacon on the boulevard and she is knock-out beautiful. Unlike Cher who ruined her unique beauty with plastic surgery, Sedgwick is intelligent.
Esquire Magazine came out with its list of best bars and next year with your help I hope they include Hollister’s Whiskey Creek and Johnny’s and almost every bar in San Juan Bautista.
They did list my third favorite bar, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville, Tenn. I was fortunate as Tootsie was still alive and was tending bar the time we saddled up to the world’s most famous country western bar. It is around the corner from the shrine to country music, the church that housed the Grand Ole Opry during the hey day or rather hay day of country music.
Tootsie was already a legend when Nancy and my sainted mom entered the old watering hole in 1976. Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Ferlin Husky and hundreds of others were helped by Tootsie when they were down and out. Tootsie’s is a real drinker’s dream bar. No plasma TVs blaring some game, no amateurs ruining great songs with their damned “Carry an Okie” night. What it does have is lots of funky stuff on the ceiling and walls. Autographed pictures of the truly great and a jukebox with the classics of country with speakers perfectly balanced so you can still have a conversation. And of course live country music at anytime someone with a “gitar” and amp walks in and is so moved to move us. And moved we were. Mom trying to pick up a cowboy, Nancy dancing on the bar with too much booty in her pants and me, the model of decorum sipping a mint julep while carrying on a conversation about the world wide ramification of paper vs. plastic.
These are the top 10 television shows last week in what city? Mexico City, Vera Cruz or Tijuana? “La fea mas bella”, “Destilando amor”, “Copa oro,” “Destilando Amor”, “Yo Juan”, Destilando Amor”, “La fea mas bella”, “Destilando Amor”, “La fea mas bello”, and “Yo Juan”.
If you guessed Tijuana you are wrong. Yep, almost every week when the L.A. Times lists the top ten most watched shows in Hollywood and L.A. they are usually all Spanish language shows. So last year when a local Spanish radio station had billboards plastered all over Hollywood and L.A. proudly stating they were local in Los Angeles, Mexico they caused instant controversy. But they were a 100 percent right except it is not Mexico that is picking up the health and education bills but Americans. Aye chee waa waa!
