tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post4716879690007140450..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: The Hollywood Way Back Machine stops in 1969By Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-14798305553489768222018-10-20T19:56:46.231-07:002018-10-20T19:56:46.231-07:00I think the set and props people have their own co...I think the set and props people have their own code of honor. I had a friend trying to figure out what kind of safety socks they wore in a 19th century ammunition factory. Shoes, which often had metal in the soles, might set something off. My favorite will always be Professor X's car in the X-Men movie. It had a New York State handicapped license plate.<br />Kaleberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283840743310507878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12177793744471815272018-10-20T13:48:47.227-07:002018-10-20T13:48:47.227-07:00Fun photos. I remember the Helms trucks equipped w...Fun photos. I remember the Helms trucks equipped with gorgeous sliding wooden drawers filled with those delicious donuts. Yumm.<br /><br />Eye catching as well...Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate and Nancy Kwan in one movie.Jeff Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708037522976667642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-63943537238635215272018-10-19T18:10:57.113-07:002018-10-19T18:10:57.113-07:00Yeah. The summer of 1969. I was terrified and exci...Yeah. The summer of 1969. I was terrified and excited to be leaving my parent's apartment to start my freshman year at Caltech. And my parents were just terrified that I was leaving the safety of the apartment with the Tate-LaBianca killers out on the loose. Made it ok. Not sure I really want to relive that summer.brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04867539918269604287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-55585560363810897832018-10-19T13:51:38.438-07:002018-10-19T13:51:38.438-07:00I've been listening to "The Good Place: T...I've been listening to "The Good Place: The Podcast," hosted by Marc Evan Jackson ("I play Shawn"). He interviews all sorts of creative people who work on the show: lead actors, writers, directors, guest actors, set designers, props folks, casting, philosophers, SFX folks, and so forth. It's fascinating. I had no idea all the work and all the people who are involved in getting a show onscreen.T.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17847744868968851680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-69234856443941419342018-10-19T13:07:36.463-07:002018-10-19T13:07:36.463-07:00Oh, there are plenty of folks who wont let the enj...Oh, there are <i>plenty</i> of folks who wont let the enjoyment of the film stop them from noticing little errors. As much as I love <i>Animal House</i>, it's chockful of anachronisms, and my wife will attest that I vociferously questioned the period-appropriateness of the egg-timer with which Sally Hawkins times her masturbation in <i>The Shape of Water</i>! Looking at these photos, my only beef lies with a few typefaces on signage, but that's always an issue with this sort of thing, and nothing here is really egregious.Devlin Thompsonhttp://www.devlinthompson.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-80938453613514460642018-10-19T06:49:05.315-07:002018-10-19T06:49:05.315-07:00Sounds like a really fun, neat business. Thanks fo...Sounds like a really fun, neat business. Thanks for letting me know!Janet Ybarranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-79397805970903857692018-10-19T05:24:37.452-07:002018-10-19T05:24:37.452-07:00Ken, I was contacted about supplying airchecks of ...Ken, I was contacted about supplying airchecks of The Real Don Steele at KHJ in 1969, as were other folks who collect airchecks. Hoping RDS makes it into the film! ❤ Shaune IHeartBusterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510439069901238267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-70513727295868773152018-10-18T20:11:36.142-07:002018-10-18T20:11:36.142-07:00Ah, 1969. Brings back memories of my last year liv...Ah, 1969. Brings back memories of my last year living in Florida before I was "kidnapped" and forced to move north. [Actually, step-dad transferred to new job.] When I went back almost two decades ago, most of what I remembered was gone although a few places remained. Now, even those are gone. Town I lived in when we moved had about 15,000 residents, it's now over 50,000. And there is now not a single speck of privately owned land, except for parks & nature reserves, that is not built over. Used to walk to and from elementary school which was over 1 mile away and not have to worry about getting hit by a car. 2 lane dirt roads now 4 or 6 lane paved highways. Five cents for a candy bar that was almost the size of a loaf of bread and outraged that some were being raised to a dime. Seeing movies at the only indoor theater in town and it only had one screen. Parents taking us to the drive-in to watch movies. One screen but sometime after we moved they made it a two screener. Sadly, now gone. First replaced by a flea market, now home to Publix & Lowes. Peddling down the street till it dead-ended at a wooded section then trundling my bike through the woods to the grocery store on U.S. Highway 19 where grandma worked and she took me to lunch at a diner and got me a coke for a dime. Amazingly, the diner is still there but has been converted into a check cashing place and the store she worked at, like her, are long gone. Lot where we used to play baseball was still there up to 5 years ago when they built condos on it. Amazing what memories of a few photos, even of re-creations, can dredge up. And most amazing, is a tree I planted way back in 1963 when we moved into a new house, is STILL there when I checked it out on Google Maps. And for some reason, that made me very happy!YEKIMIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01921751875397071034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-36297707901733406202018-10-18T19:39:20.690-07:002018-10-18T19:39:20.690-07:00Janet - There is a company called "History fo...Janet - There is a company called "History for Hire" located not far from my home. They stock all manner of vintage items. I donated a few things to their business that I'd been carting around for 45 years (e.g., a 1950's portable Philco tube radio/record player combo and a 1960's portable Royal manual typewriter). I hope to spot them in a movie or tv show some day. Lorimartiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-87612362374955636732018-10-18T19:02:45.529-07:002018-10-18T19:02:45.529-07:00Film crews come to my town quite often as well - j...Film crews come to my town quite often as well - just a couple of years ago, Burt Reynolds, Chevy Chase, and Ariel Winter were in my town filming an indie film - and in fact, there was a film crew, with a police blockade, a few streets away from my neighborhood.<br /><br />Now if only the powers at be would leave some of their equipment behind, and we had some actual facilities around here (like a studio lot), I could probably get a lot more of my own work done . . . maybe, I don't know. But, I feel as though Knoxville could have the potential to be the southeast point for moviemaking - we have a rather large indie crowd in this town: it's not uncommon to be driving down a main road in the downtown area, and see people lugging cameras down the sidewalk.Joseph Scarbroughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02572781083272335747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-80865322904935788582018-10-18T17:31:38.769-07:002018-10-18T17:31:38.769-07:00Any number of broadcast and cable networks do this...Any number of broadcast and cable networks do this. Minimizing an outgoing show while a new one comes on, so you can't read the credits.<br /><br />I've seen with first run as well as re-runs.<br /><br />I agree, I would think it would be a union issue but apparently not.<br /><br />I also agree it is annoying.Janet Ybarranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-53120727650662021562018-10-18T17:18:43.640-07:002018-10-18T17:18:43.640-07:00I remember Campbell's as a bookstore on LeCont...I remember Campbell's as a bookstore on LeConte, not a men's store. Far too many years ago to be sure. Where's Licorice Pizza? Jeans West?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-13583363879598860912018-10-18T15:44:55.401-07:002018-10-18T15:44:55.401-07:00I like the era but not the actor. Pass.I like the era but not the actor. Pass.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-16646004720477440422018-10-18T15:07:48.410-07:002018-10-18T15:07:48.410-07:00Here's something really spooky.
After the LaBi...Here's something really spooky.<br />After the LaBianca murders the whole Southern California area was on edge because no one knew who the perps were.<br />The LA Times ran a front-page story on the murders, the possible motives and who might be behind it. All speculation of course, and no hint of the Manson Family.<br />But right next to the article was another article on the hippies living out at Spahn Ranch. It had nothing to do with the murders, was sort of a kooky feature piece. No one made the connection between the two articles side by side.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-84981705124649199222018-10-18T15:07:44.888-07:002018-10-18T15:07:44.888-07:00Oh man, I can still remember being overwhelmed by ...Oh man, I can still remember being overwhelmed by the smell from inside of the Helms Bakery truck when the driver opened those two magical doors! I lived for those doughnuts and cakes when I was a kid! Oddly enough, in the last few months I have actually have been daydreaming about finding and restoring one of those trucks. Seeing the photos here I also want that Carnation Milk truck and that Corvair! (You know, I really don't like that feeling of thinking a lot of things were better in the 'old days.' In this case what bothers me about no Helms or Carnation trucks is that those people jobs don't exist anymore, and others like them. The Fuller Brush Man, the Avon Lady. To me, these jobs that brought people to you helped make up life in a neighborhood. You looked forward to the doorbell ringing on a certain day, a delivery truck coming through at a certain time. You got to know them a little bit, they got to know you a little bit, they knew everyone else who lived around you. they were like small threads that helped stitch a neighborhood together. And it also bother me that people don't get to do jobs like that anymore (and make a living at it!). And it's getting worse I think, one day in America most of all be working in Amazon warehouses shipping Chinese stuff to ourselves.)Astroboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-57466776909597779742018-10-18T15:06:21.208-07:002018-10-18T15:06:21.208-07:00Ken: off topic but have you heard of the new Netfl...Ken: off topic but have you heard of the new Netflix Chuck Lorre production the Kominsky Method? Single camera show with Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin and Nancy Travis. Janice B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-11277388885002324992018-10-18T14:57:25.990-07:002018-10-18T14:57:25.990-07:00I'll really be impressed if I see Lew Alcindor...I'll really be impressed if I see Lew Alcindor walking around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-18878546725245644242018-10-18T13:40:40.339-07:002018-10-18T13:40:40.339-07:00Day-Lewis, Tarantino...when did film people in the...Day-Lewis, Tarantino...when did film people in the prime of life decide they had accumulated enough money to announce their retirement? John Huston directed his last movie (THE DEAD) on an oxygen tank for emphysema. Spencer Tracy just about made it through GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. In NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR Richard Burton looks like his doctor is waiting off-camera. Nobody walked away from a thriving career but Garbo, and people still talk about that.<br /><br />Wimps.Buttermilk Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07430011403223875192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-17487680330192319392018-10-18T13:08:58.512-07:002018-10-18T13:08:58.512-07:00Good pics Ken. Thanks.
Quentin Tarantino was alwa...Good pics Ken. Thanks.<br /><br />Quentin Tarantino was always defending Roman Polanski with the most absurd pathetic logic.<br /><br />So the story will surely involve portraying Polanski in a sympathetic manner to get the public to shed a tear or two for poor Polanski, and forgive him of the sins, he commits later.<br /><br />Wonder who plays Bob Evans and Jack Nicholson?<br /><br />Glorianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-70046344706876307092018-10-18T12:57:13.603-07:002018-10-18T12:57:13.603-07:00You mean it's still not 1969?You mean it's still not 1969?Gary Therouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172963780748514142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-41820421306662835832018-10-18T12:10:23.119-07:002018-10-18T12:10:23.119-07:00it drives me crazy that Netflix doesn't let yo...<i> it drives me crazy that Netflix doesn't let you read the credits when you stream a movie. Would it kill them to push their next recommended show--which I am almost never interested in-back a couple of minutes? it's not like they're on a :30/:60 schedule.</i><br /><br />That bothers me, too; I'd think unions would be raising hell over it. And of course Netflix isn't alone in "rushing" end credits.<br /><br />Of course we now have <a href="https://www.imdb.com/" rel="nofollow">IMDB</a>, but they have an understandable problem with TV shows: if I want to know who plays the dishy cop on last night's episode, it isn't up yet and probably won't be for a while.Todd Everettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-75696772163213145812018-10-18T10:48:49.182-07:002018-10-18T10:48:49.182-07:00@Janet Ybarra: Family Feud moved from Atlanta back...@Janet Ybarra: Family Feud moved from Atlanta back to LA last year. While the tax breaks helped, the main reason it had been shot in Atlanta in the first place is because that is where Steve Harvey lived, and he didn't want to commute to LA. Now that he has moved to LA to do his daily talk show, he doesn't want to commute to Atlanta!<br /><br />As far as cars are concerned, I have some friends who are part of the classic car community, and word gets around when productions are looking. The Transportation Department people know whom to ask. The hardest part is not finding the car, but convincing the owner to let them borrow it. Occasionally replicas are made.<br /><br />If it's a background car, those will usually be booked by the extras casting people. They'll just put out a public ask specifically for people who have period cars and are willing to drive them around a film set all day.Andy Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-643915983890420602018-10-18T09:49:57.463-07:002018-10-18T09:49:57.463-07:00To your last point, Ken, it drives me crazy that N...To your last point, Ken, it drives me crazy that Netflix doesn't let you read the credits when you stream a movie. Would it kill them to push their next recommended show--which I am almost never interested in-back a couple of minutes? it's not like they're on a :30/:60 schedule.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-88740424652789072672018-10-18T09:12:26.511-07:002018-10-18T09:12:26.511-07:00So... what's the over/
under we'll hear th... So... what's the over/<br />under we'll hear that beautiful Drake/Chenault Boss stinger with a DJ shout at least once? :-)<br /><br />(Someone else will have to tell me; I can't watch a Tarantino film... :-)Baylinknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-61547550793908570842018-10-18T08:55:12.360-07:002018-10-18T08:55:12.360-07:00Terrific Westwood memories for me. Thanks for the...Terrific Westwood memories for me. Thanks for the posting Ken.<br /><br />After finishing a Saturday late-night shift on the ucla campus radio station (where Ken was a farrr better DJ than I was), I was walking alone in Westwood after midnight when about 100 feet ahead of me a 6'5" man turned the corner heading my way, and in the street light I could make out that he was wearing a hat and some sort of uniform. As he and I got closer, I saw that he was staggering a bit, drunk, and his hat was a beret. His uniform: army. Lots of medals. Jeezus! A drunk Green Beret was walking right at me! He stopped in front of me, blocking my way, then asked directions to the nearest bar. I had no idea where it was so I made up some goofy directions and off he went. And I double-timed it back to the frat house, lucky to be alive. <br /><br />Someone tell Mr. Tarantino to put that guy in the movie!Barefoot Billy Alohahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586870309250699505noreply@blogger.com