by
FReeper AnnaZ
called
"Boomerang"
about the Citizens United's
"Thank you, Holllywood" billboard.
Posted on 02/20/2005 4:11:59 PM PST by RonDog
I shudder at how close we came to not winning the last election, but everything worked out well in the end.
Two questions....
Do you have any experience in broadcasting (cause you are GOOD!)?
And do you have an Ohio connection (Free Traficant? LOL!) He was my Dad's 'representative' at one time. Makes you PROUD to be an Ohioan! ;o)
I used to listen to AnnaZ and Mucurial(sp?) on FRadio all the time. 13% now . . . blib blib . .blib . . 14%
How long is the video ?
22 Meg?!?! got a smaller version ?
5 minutes 17 seconds!
Thank you. . 22% now
So this is a little AnnaZocumentry ?
Eat your heart out Ken Burns.
It's very good quality, IMNSHO. Also, I like seeing what other FReepers look like. :-)
Is that Los Burritos place any good? I have a sudden hankerin' for some mexican food [darn subliminals] ;-)
However, I'm still waiting for someone to comment on the Marlboro man tear-down.From www.kenlayne.com:
Goodbye to the Colossus
of Sunset Strip
Ken Layne
(March 11, 1999)
Tabloid.netIt's a rotten day in Los Angeles. From my writing table in the hills of Los Feliz, the whole massive sky is filled with dumb gray clouds -- the kind of do-nothing clouds that always inspire my wrath. If you're going to be a filthy cloud, at least make some rain or thunder or lightening.
Instead, they just float stupidly, blocking the sun and the warmth I demand. If I wanted this soupy downer for weather, I would've stayed in San Francisco.
Of course it is petty and cruel to be complaining about gray skies and 60-degree weather while the rest of America suffers violent winter storms. The Midwest is frozen, the South is lashed by savage winds and hail the size of Volkswagens, D.C. is crippled by snow -- the Post went so far as to call it Washington's "version of Armageddon."
Well, I feel awfully bad for you people, but I've had enough horrible winters and I moved back to Los Angeles for Endless Summer. And if I can't sit outside at the cafe with the newspapers and the sunshine, whether it's early March or December or August, then I've been ripped off.
Time to move closer to the equator.
Even if Los Angeles was a pleasant 80 degrees right now, this town is still lousy today. They've killed the giant Marlboro Man.
He reigned over the Sunset Strip for 17 years, watching over the mythological rock clubs and the nymphs plunging into the Chateau Marmont's swimming pool.
"A billboard He-Man that is a more enduring urban monument than almost any other building in Los Angeles," architecture expert Aaron Betsky wrote for the L.A. Times in 1991. Betsky said the 70-foot-tall cowboy "transcended the realm of pure advertising" to become a perfect landmark for the hazy ideal of Hollywood.
On Tuesday, the health nazis killed the cowboy. The usual jackoffs gathered to gloat and smile for the teevee cameras: an American Cancer Society representative from Northridge (what the hell are we doing, allowing Northridge bureaucrats on the Strip?), a couple of city councilmen, a county supervisor. They delayed the construction crews long enough to make sure the show could be televised, which meant waiting for one cameraman to finish his cigarette. And then the Marlboro Man was trucked away.
We can thank the massive tobacco settlement for this pathetic gesture. All cigarette billboards in the United States must come down by April 23. Even a much-loved icon that has stood over the crossroads of American culture as the Colossus of Rhodes once did for the Ancient Greeks.
This cigarette hysteria has gotten to the point where I feel guilty about even considering cutting down. Last year, when smoking was outlawed in California's bars, I decided to never, ever "quit" smoking. Even if I eventually have just a single cigarette a day, I will consider myself a smoker. Same goes for drinking and doping and eating bloody-rare steaks. Don't be a quitter.
The tobacco-billboard outrage is just one timely symptom of a bored, scared and terminally dumb nation...
Nice job. You're a good person, Anna.
"not in your name" ping
ping
I have a story to tell about Hollywood you've just got to hear. Remind me next time we cross in FReeperland and I'll regale you with it. It's a howler.
Sorry RonDog, that last post was for Anna.
I loved how you had to explain to so many of them the meaning of the billboard, when it's so obvious. LOL! It must be a symptom of being a Kerry voter.
That was really, really good. The editing was spot on and you really know how to speak to a camera.
Curous about those pink boots though! :-)
I'm surprised that the people you interviewed seemed more normal than I expected.
That was great! Let us know when you get a huge contract and stop back in and let us know.
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