Sunday, February 25, 2018

Another Show Bidnis Annv.

Michael Douglas in front of 3828 W. Sunset Blvd., mere blocks from where this reporter lived at the time.
[This 25th anniv. remembrance is a day early because it will take the move-their-lips-when-reading crowd an eternity to wade through. (Enjoy the pictures, illiterate cretins!)]

A friend who visited me in the late '70s (Or was it the early '80s?) noted to me that being in L.A. was like "being on television". Yep, & there's little we locals like more than spotting locations. So we point you to L.A. Taco, where the film Falling Down, released 26 February 1993, gets a good going over, w/ many then/now images.

Added interest: The shooting schedule was interrupted by the 1992 uprising.

2 comments:

JWL said...

I recently watched a 1950's film starring the great Eli Wallach, in which a scene shot at an ice rink behind the landmark Cliff House in San Francisco brought back vivid memories of that location I'd long ago forgotten. I was a toddler the last time I'd been in it.

Forest Whitaker may have deserved what he got in your store ["We all deserve it, kid". C.Eastwood in Unforgiven]. But his confusion about what made Douglas tick was understandable. Douglas was flying under a false colors that day, Whitaker wasn't.. Whitaker was provoked unto rashness, in other words. The question is: which one of the two was the bigger asshole? which one was really crazier?

Anonymous said...

I think you meant Frederic Forrest, who portrayed "Nick" the surplus store owner. He also portrayed "Chef" in the movie Apocalypse Now and "Blue Duck" in the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove.