You can find a guide to “the...
You can find a guide to “the stars’ bones,” a Zsa Zsa shopping tour and celebrity seating charts at the power eateries in Spade & Archer’s new paperback, “50 Maps of L.A.” It’s always useful to know, for instance, which Santa Monica restaurant allows actor Sean Penn to back up his truck to a patio table so he can feed the hound at breakfast.
The shocker, though, is the section “At the Royal Court of the Lakers.” It shows Jack Nicholson sitting not at court side, but halfway up the Forum’s loge section with the peasants. Similarly uprooted were several other front-row mainstays, including Creative Artists Agency Chairman Mike Ovitz. Odd when you consider that Ovitz was recently ranked the most powerful man in Hollywood by one magazine.
Strangest of all, the seats of the Red Hot Chili Peppers band appear to be on the court, in front of one basket.
Either “50 Maps” used the wrong seating plan of the Inglewood arena or the Peppers are going to be an unexpected hindrance to the Lakers’ fast break.
It’s a Dog’s Life, Part II:
Bellflower City Councilman John Ansdell has proposed a discount for a special group of seniors--senior canines.
Ansdell wants to waive the license fees for hounds that are 10 or older. While acknowledging that such freebies are usually based on the age of the animal’s owner , Ansdell pointed out: “Dogs that age are about 70 in human years. They don’t go out of the house much. A lot of them have lost their teeth.”
His motion could face resistance on the council. One other member is a retired postman.
List of the Day:
Shakespeare’s L.A., in honor of the Bard’s 427th birthday Friday:
1. Automobiles: “Traffic’s thy god; and thy god confound thee” (“Timon of Athens”).
2. The drought: “How chance the roses there do fade so fast? Belike for want of rain” (“Midsummer Night’s Dream”).
3. Air quality: “I am pale at my heart to see thine eyes so red” (“Measure for Measure”).
4. Crime: “Be ready to direct these home alarms” (“King Richard II”).
5. Fitness: “You may be jogging while your boots are green” (“Taming of the Shrew”).
6. Sacrifices that new arrivals must make in the real estate market: “I will sell my dukedom to buy a slobbery and a dirty farm” (“Henry V”).
miscelLAny:
Street names that celebrate the car culture of the Southland include Motor Avenue (Culver City), Driver Avenue (Agoura Hills), Pass Avenue (Burbank), Battery Street (San Pedro), Studebaker Road (Downey), Cadillac Avenue (L.A.), Speedway (Venice), Auto Drive (Compton), and, most pertinently, Lookout Drive (Pomona).