Posted on 04/19/2005 2:39:42 PM PDT by silent_jonny
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... I went out to the set and the offices of the Fox hit TV show 24 of which I've become a huge fan.
I only heard of the show late last season but it wasn't enough time to watch it, so I started watching it from the beginning this year, and when it was time to go to Afghanistan I bought all three previous seasons on DVD and took them on the airplane and I watched on the way over there 18 episodes, bam, bam, bam, just got hooked. I mean, there's no commercials in the DVD, so I didn't even have time to go to the bathroom. Well, I did, I hit the pause button but I'm just trying to illustrate how I couldn't tear myself away. After the trip to Afghanistan was over on the way back home I watched the remaining six episodes of season one and got as many in on season two as possible. I mentioned this when I got back, that I had watched all these episodes, and it turns out that the creator and producer of the program, a guy named Joel Surnow, happens to be a huge fan of this program, a longtime fan. I am one of his idols. So he calls, "If you're ever out here, come by, we'd love to show you how we do our magic." So I took him up on it. I went out there yesterday, got there about 2:30 and left at 10:30. They were still shooting scenes, working on the last two episodes of the year, still shooting scenes about ten, 10:30 when I had to tear myself away.
If you're watching on the Dittocam you see this smoke jacket, what an appropriate day to have a smoking jacket and to wear one. This was given to me by the crew at 24, and it's got the 24 logo here on the left-front pocket. It was so much fun, these guys, I'm telling you, folks, there's a movement going on out in Hollywood that stunned me. I mean, there were hundred people there, in and out, a big party, and they did it in my honor. It was just so much fun. The thing started at four o'clock, it was a smoking room party and they had all kinds of people from the show, from outside the show, that came in. It was actors and actresses on the show who had been killed off but can't tear themselves away from the set, they keep coming back. It was just a hoot. Everybody dons their smoking jackets and lights up, sits around, snacks and so forth, pictures galore. I got to sit in on a casting session. They're casting a couple of lead female roles for next season, got to see how that's done. But these guys are all conservatives. You know, in fact Vince Flynn, the great novelist Vince Flynn has been hired just for the past two weeks, he's trying to help them come up with story lines for next season, but Vince is such a groupie of mine, he didn't help them yesterday with any story lines; he was too busy talking me and asking me questions about myself and the radio -- I'm kidding about him being a groupie. He's a big fan. They all were.
Folks, it was a huge shock, I'm out there in Hollywood, and, you know, when I show up normally where there's a security guard, I have to have a bodyguard to protect me from the security guard when it's in Hollywood. But this guy was waiting for a football for me to autograph. The eight hours just zoomed by. I watched a couple scenes, actually four or five scenes being shot as they're trying to wrap up this season. But it was just a tremendous, tremendous good time. And I can't thank them enough for all of the courtesy that they showed and the kindness out there. It was once in a lifetime trip. A lot of pictures taken from it, and when I get those pictures, we will post a whole bunch of them on the website. And they should be coming in rather soon because they were all digital. There was a person doing nothing but taking pictures out there for this thing. They did it up right. Just an amazing thing. It's the only Hollywood set I have ever been on that's actually bigger than what it looks like. It's huge if you watch this show, and most everybody does.
I've got to tell you something that happened, the funniest thing happened at the smoke party last night at the set of 24. They brought in this babe to be a bartender. She was about 5'12", and might have weighed I'm guessing below the waste, maybe 50 pounds, above the waist another 50, maybe 75, if you get my drift out there. I walked up there, grabbed a Diet Coke, go back and resume conversations, travel around, go to different room, come back. The last time I went to the bar I said, "Could I get another Diet Coke from you?" She said, "What's my name?" She had been introduced to me when she first arrived. She said, "If you don't remember my name, if you can't come up with my name, I'm not getting you anything." So I looked around, there was nobody there that I could ask, so I just said, "Lavern." "Do I look like a Lavern to you?" "Well, what does a Lavern look like? I thought it was Lavern." So I started guessing names and she'd hold the drink out to me, this tall glass of Diet Coke, and as I said each name she's pull it away. (Laughing) I mean, just a flat out tease. She finally told me her name was Joni and made me pour it myself, and I still enjoyed it! I still had a good time.
Y'all are reading WAY too much into this. Rush visited the set of one of his favorite shows......invited.......and had a blast. It seems his hosts enjoyed him, as well. What the hell, folks......seems pretty straightforward.
Good for you, Rush. I'd love to visit that set myself. Great show.
Forget the son---Where is Heller??? One hopes he will return to take out the new "President" before he destroys the nation.
If this show were reality the U.S.A. would have been placed under martial law around 8pm.
I agree.
Best show in history of TV.
Check out Fox's "House, M.D." on Tues at 9pm. Brilliant TV.
Absolutely, without hesitation.
I kinda like House, although it's a bit predictable now. I'm kinda a stickler for things that just don't make sense or would never happen in real life. A hospital would NEVER allow a practicing Dr. to pop vicodin while on the job no matter how presigious that Dr. is. Wouldn't happen. No way, no how.
Do you think the VP is in on the thing..I mean, this is network TV, the white man has to be the real villian in the end!
Maybe it means Rush is ready ...
Yes...it is.
BTW....This is the first season I have watched "24".
Who was the black guy they showed at the end of the preview for next weeks show?
It was obvious that long time viewers would know him at a glance.
I have hospitals and doctors as patients. You would be shocked what goes on behind some walls.
I'm not saying it doesn't go on, I'm saying it wouldn't go on blatantly in front of the patients. Hey, while we're on great TV shows, have you seen NIP/TUCK?
This minor error drops our "Harmless, Lovable, Little Fuzzball", our "Doctor of Democracy", our "Guiding Light in Times of Trouble, Confusion, Tumult, Chaos, Fear, Uncertainty, Torture, Humiliation, and Yes, Even the Good Times", down to a documented 98.3999999999999% on the Truth-O-Meter.
When Michael Chiklis starred as John Belushi in the movie version of Bob Woodward's unflattering biography Wired, he was dumped on by SNL cast members, some of whom suggested he wouldn't work in Hollywood after trashing the memory of Belushi. Primary among these were Dan Aykroyd.
Who's not working now?
Awesome post!
For the past couple of years, everybody knows that you don't call my house between 9 and 10 on Monday night. I get out of my chair and pace around sometimes, watching 24. What this country could use is a platoon of Jack Bauers.
This is not posted directly at you but just a good spot to respond on this thread.
If as conservatives and Christians that are grounded in our beliefs what is so wrong with enjoying "entertainment".
I don't get the Hollywood bashing. It is just written entertainment that IMO is not to be taken as gospel.
I watched a quirky movie today Black Book that I enjoyed as entertainment.
Some folks enjoy a good baseball game as entertainment thats how I view movies. I enjoy them for entertainment. I watch what I like.
I don't watch what doesn't entertain me. Scary horror movies personally don't entertain me unless I have a pal wathching with me and we scream like fools. That's fun.
I am not morally or politically swayed by entertainment.
But I enjoy a good comedy or suspense who done it.
I even enjoy B rated flicks. Steven Seagul movies are so lame but I like them.
If somebody finds tv/movies borish and would prefer a hike in the hills good for them but don't be so snobby to those who enjoy that form of entertainment. I see the stupidity in the writing but I am not taking it as gospel.
Just Sheesh.
Yeah, I watch that one, too. Pretty weird to watch Bertie Wooster playing an American Dr.
I guess I will watch 24 for the first time.
I seldom watch a new TV show as I haven't seen a good one in about 10 years.
Joni sounds like a spinner.:)
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