Tag Archives: hollywood

A Star’s Speech

In the winter of 1986 my cousin Sherri invited me out to North Hollywood to write screenplays for her XXX films. The athletic brunette was moving from before the camera to behind the lens. While not MGM her proposition appealed to me. I was living in Paris. It was cold. LA was sunny, even the […]

Whiskey A Go Go

I saw this poster somewhere and thought, “How cool.” Th Whisky à Go-Go on the Sunset Strip was made famous by the mini-skirted DJ Rhonda Lane, who danced in a cage during Johnny Rivers’s set, thus giving birth to the go go girl. The Miracles scored a 1966 hit with GOING TO A GO GO […]

Bad To The Bone

Fame has been cruel to the blonde star Lindsay Lohan. The troublesome actress most recently fought with a low-ranking GOP congressional staffer, who had been secretly taking photos of Lilo at W Hotel party and this spat was preceded by a car accident. The girl hasn’t been able to get a break, since her troubles […]

An Actor’s Incredible Journey

There is no TV in my top-floor apartment. I watch nothing by NBC, CBS, or ABC. My late father would be happy with my rejection of the ‘boob tube’, although my apostasy was more due to my inability to operate the new-fangled remote controls than the content offered by networks. I hear people talking about […]

Taboo in The Tiki Theater

Yesterday TV funny man Fred Willard for lewd behavior at the Tiki Theater by an undercover LAPD officer at 8:45pm. At first I thought the arrest had occurred at the Tiki Cineplex, which is featuring Ice Age: Continental Drift, Ted, The Amazing Spider-Man, Brave, Magic Mike, and Savages on its multi-screens, although none of those […]