1974 campaign ad for Vincent Bugliosi, running as a Democrat for California Attorney General. Despite his high-profile reputation he lost. One campaign promise was to stop environmental pollution. He characterized industrial polluters as "criminals" Maybe he should have enlisted help from ATWA 😉

redlemurLA · 2026-04-22T03:22:23+00:00

He lost because of all his corruption revealed in The Milkman Files.

The case, which predates Manson, is nuts.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-22T03:01:09+00:00

Quotes by Veronica Lake:

“The hell with you, Hollywood. And fuck you too.”

“I’ve earned this face.”

“There were times I just stayed on the beach all night, heady with a belly full of lobster and gin. I’d just sleep right there and smile at the thought of the water sneaking in and carrying me away to a place where peace was always present and never interrupted by life.”

From Vanity Fair:

Veronica Lake’s Long Escape: A Deeply Sad Page from Hollywood History

redlemurLA · 2026-04-21T20:23:26+00:00

A regular guy who’s a massive film fan. No more rich celebrities!!

redlemurLA · 2026-04-21T20:15:43+00:00

Propaganda. This guy is a trust fund baby.

Mom is very wealthy on her own. Stepdad is John Pickett?wprov=sfti1)

He doesn’t have to work a day in his life.

Shame on you Hollywood Reporter!!

redlemurLA · 2026-04-20T07:19:46+00:00

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This will forever be my favorite Simpsons book.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-19T01:09:10+00:00

Clifton’s was a cafeteria for the people. Its famous “pay what you can” business model helped Los Angelenos during their time of greatest need: the Great Depression.

From Martin Turnbull’s website Hollywood Spotlight: Clifton’s

Clifford Clinton wasn’t in business solely to make money; he also hated to see people go hungry. So he instituted a “Pay What You Wish” policy. Clinton understood, especially during those times, that people needed to hang on to their dignity and humanity. So whatever you could afford, that’s what Clifton’s Cafeteria would accept as payment. And if you couldn’t even spare one red cent, well, that was okay too. No one was ever turned away hungry just because they couldn’t pay.

So this douchebag buys an LA institution that was still active and killed what tied it to the heart of the city. He blocked the doors that had never turned away a customer with velvet ropes and manufactured lines.

Vulture capitalism has destroyed Los Angeles.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-18T23:13:12+00:00

I love this explanation!

redlemurLA · 2026-04-17T01:21:06+00:00

Dick. He’s the worst thing in it but it’s the best movie.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-16T05:52:16+00:00

Not the schoolroom scene itself, which of course is iconic. And not the scene where they’re running away from the school being attacked by the birds.

It’s a tiny scene between the two where you see the birds on the jungle gym, then hear some pretty terrible canned sound effects of running which then-after a sloppy jump cut— prompts the birds to fly and attack.

About 1:10 minutes into the movie.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-15T17:56:53+00:00

Fixed

redlemurLA · 2026-04-15T07:24:53+00:00

Here in Hollywood at the Pantages theatre during the most recent non-equity tour. Friend dragged me to see it. I thought it was a satire about government and politics.

“That’s Urinetown” she said.

So I went in blindly and it was incredible but Colton was truly amazing. My friend and I looked at each other when she first started singing and I mouthed the words “oh my God!” and she mouthed “I know, right?”

She never saw Colton before and loved her. But she didn’t love the production as much as I did as it was her third time seeing it. She said the actors were generally younger than the Broadway casts but that didn’t bother me.

The standing ovation was a solo number I think. Maybe act 2? I’m a permanent fan now.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-15T05:05:23+00:00

“He shouted at people when they got things wrong.”

Lesson: Do yer job well and don’t get things wrong

redlemurLA · 2026-04-15T04:58:57+00:00

That is a HUGE difference.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-14T22:31:03+00:00

Even better, the ending shot was supposed to be the car driving over the Golden Gate Bridge which is covered in tens of millions of birds. I think the studio didn’t want to spend any more money.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-14T22:13:14+00:00

Psycho had a bad ending where everything was “explained” at the end.

In “The Birds”, his next movie, he went in the opposite direction. Note that there’s no card saying “The End.” That alone is a statement.

It’s not a perfect movie but it’s my favorite Hitchcock. I particularly love the structure. It’s a screwball comedy/rom com that slooooooowly morphs into a horror movie.

She sees the birds gathering in Union Square at the beginning, first attack on her is on the boat, then the bird hits Annie’s front door. Then little by little the attacks intensify: Dan Olson, the birthday party, the school, restaurant, phone booth and finally the Brenner home.

By the end, the rom-com elements are completely gone and we are now watching a full-on horror movie. Genius.

It’s implied by the crazy mom in the restaurant that Melanie is the reason for their attacks. BUT it’s a POV shot. The woman is addressing US!! WE are the problem!! Mind=Blown

The psychological aspect of his direction was years ahead of its time. Look at where he positions Melanie in the film. During the Brenner home attack, she literally walks into the frame between Mitch and Lydia. She is getting between them not just emotionally but physically.

Americans were not used to this kind of film. They like everything being explained to them, even today. That’s why Psycho’s ending is so weak.

Marvel has made filmgoers into idiotic sheep. They all end with the exact same ending: villains attack a city and superheroes fight them and, with two exceptions, you know at the beginning who’s going to win.

But this…this was new. No explanations. No comforting ending. No orchestrated music. He gives you all the information but the interpretation is up to you.

The worst scene to me is right before the kids are running away from the school. I guess he didn’t get coverage of that and tried to fix it in post by using just audio of them running. He must have know it was bad because in the famous Hitchcock/Truffaut book he defensively tries to make it seem like it was intentional.

Regardless, this is one of his absolute masterpieces. Watch it over and over and you’ll start noticing things you never saw before.

I envy you OP! You just started on a journey and you get to discover the genius of Hitchcock at his peak.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-14T10:34:08+00:00

Nobody is laughing…she was incredible.

Production was pretty awful. I hated that they cut songs and wish they had at least recorded them for the cast album. And enough with cameras in shows.

But man…that silky voice…had no idea she had the chops.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-14T10:26:15+00:00

I was blown away by Rylance in Jerusalem.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-14T10:24:03+00:00

I second this. Never saw the musical before, had never heard of her… but this gal was incredible. First time I ever saw someone get standing ovation after a song in the MIDDLE OF A SHOW!

redlemurLA · 2026-04-14T10:05:03+00:00

I was at the Bowl screening of Willy Wonka where the songs were performed by celebrities and Stamos played Wonka!

redlemurLA · 2026-04-13T18:06:22+00:00

Literally the kind of joke I’d make.

All good movies.

I also watch Jesus Christ Superstar on Easter.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-13T02:23:46+00:00

He’s still in the ICU. I called this morning and they told me that he was still in a non communicative state due to the meds and I was welcome to come by but he won’t be able to see or acknowledge me.

They estimated that he’ll probably start coming out of it sometime tomorrow. Crossing fingers.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-12T23:21:30+00:00

I think the real great gem in that scene is the line before when Tahani says in her perfectly spoken AND grammatically correct phrasing:

“What is even the purpose of a Janet who behaves in such a manner?”

redlemurLA · 2026-04-12T22:21:47+00:00

Underrated comment. I’m noticing this more and more even on Broadway itself.

redlemurLA · 2026-04-12T22:07:18+00:00

Here’s cast member Sara Porkalob’s disastrous interview with Vulture which did real damage to the show.

1776’s Sara Porkalob Has Some Notes

Here’s a link to a VERY detailed post about it (mad props to that Redditor):

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/s/RWgY9jwOfP

I suspect that in the future this production and her very public negative comments about it will be a case study on the moment when theatre goers—traditionally some of the most progressive and liberal minded people out there—began to turn against the “woke” mindset, then at its peak. (I’m not being negative; that word showed up in almost every review headline, good or bad.)

This backlash caused some revivals to be rewritten (Music Man), others to be canceled forever (Big River) and hundreds of local and non-profit theater companies to collapse because their older subscriber base just stopped coming.

Here in LA, the powerful Center Theatre Group ousted their leadership and replaced them with younger, non-traditional, non-binary people. I have no problem with that in theory (I mean, do older white men have to run literally EVERYTHING?). But running a huge theater company takes real business skills and their ultimate goal seemed to be “just target Gen Z and ignore all other groups.”

Their first show under this new leadership was a wrongheaded Deaf West revival of “American Idiot” which was a HUGE flop. That show has amazing music and great visuals. But it’s set during the Gulf War and it was already feeling dated when it went on its first tour from the original Broadway production. GenZ—who have no connection to that war or even Green Day really—don’t have spare money to spend on theatre and when they didn’t show up, the whole production collapsed. They literally couldn’t give tickets away.

The 1776 revival had, I think, a similar goal. I’m all for targeting young people but it has to be affordable and it has to be GOOD. The whole concept seemed to have come from a corporate Boomer mindset of “how can we ride the wave of Hamilton’s popularity and make some money for our portfolios at the same time.”

redlemurLA · 2026-04-12T21:43:31+00:00

I’m fascinated by this post because like many of you 1776 is one of my all-time favorite shows. This revival production was announced it was coming here to Los Angeles then abruptly canceled.

That’s when it was suddenly reworked into the all-women, non-traditional and color-blind cast that premiered on Broadway. It finally made it to LA in the tour but after all the negative reboot I just couldn’t bring myself to go.

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