Paramount Pictures — once home to some of the most spectacular and distinct names in Hollywood:  producer Hans Dreier, directors Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, Cecil B.  DeMille, DW Griffith, Preston Sturges, stars Pickford, Cooper, Grant, Colbert, Lombard, Dietrich, Powell, The Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Lucielle Ball, Mae West, and others — today says farewell to one of its hottest new additions:  Rebecca Frank. 
 
I bid thee, adieu for now my lovely. Happy New Year! May we incorporate interests again in 2006, how should I say it, with greater alignment and more fit, or suitable, relationship.

Had a super Xmas eve with the Franks & Ernsters with a quick webcam hello from Stephanie Ann & Taylor-bug, followed by a delicious Chanukkah dinner & party co-hosted by the inimitable Lilo. Makes being an LA orphan not so bad after all!

Pictures

A real Los Angeles Christmas Palm tree!

Me (looking terrible) and the China Town Angel

This is an idea borrowed from a friend. His worked much better. (shrug)

The Year in Review:

January - Happy New Year!
My 2005 Resolution: I will not take things personally.

February

March - The Master Cleanse
I am rapidly approaching Day 10 of a ten-day fast.

April - Playwrights Workshop
Come see the West Coast Ensemble’s "Spring 2005 Playwrights Workshop: a night of new one-acts."

May - A Dog Named Jesus
Gary & I went to see the Mark Ryden exhibit at Pasadena Museum of Art.

June - Heaven-Earth
"work on Heaven-Earth contact — on shifting our awareness around this apparent and rather fraudulent split."

July - Fourth of July
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

August - Fun IQ Test
A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

September - Not back yet…
I’d pre-written the Bunny Bunny post for today but in the wake of New Orleans’ disaster it feels extremely inappropriate.

October - Join the South Central Farmers Oct. 1, 2005 2pm for Friends and Neighbors Day
I didn’t get this letter until this morning and it was a tough enough weekend that most likely I couldn’t have made it but it’s an important item. Please read:

November - I was dreaming of you…
so loudly, it woke me up.

December - Holy
Well, it finally happened.

How do I say this? I guess I’ll let these ladies say it for me….

  NOV. 22–DEC. 21 When you take over the world—and with Pluto still in Sadge that could be soon—everybody will benefit from following your example of blitheringly happy anarchy. Until that day arrives, however, a planetary grand cross of fixed planets demands that you stay healthy enough to keep working like a beaver, continue talking to people you’d rather never have to hear from again, and keep your mind active and positive the whole time. If you can hack all that, you might even be able to squeeze in a naughty fantasy or two.
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Ah, The world is a strange and twisted place. Ain’t it the truth, ain’t it the truth. New York City is being stifled by it’s own public transportation and forced to slow down, just in time for the hustle-bustle Holidays. And those of us here in sunny, "unusually warm" (please don’t let it be earthquake weather, please don’t let it be earthquake weather) Los Angeles are no longer feeling East Coast envy just in time for dangled promises (and participles, I’m sure) to decorate like mistletoe. I went looking for an article this morning that I know exists - read it some years ago in Vanity Fair - and couldn’t find hide nor hair of the rascal but did come across: Overheard In New York. (SAMPLE:)

Wednesday One-liners for Chosen People

Girl: And it’s so weird to ask Jews if they are German. I just feel weird doing it, because of the Nazis and all.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: Dan

Wednesday One-liners & the Entertainment Industry

Woman on cell: Yeah, right! Like anyone’s gonna believe there are four SpongeBobs.

–Rockefeller Center

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Love, the weird and random.

Yes,… I realize the strike is over. Yeesh. So now you know, I wrote this Wed.