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“This is why fluoride was put in our water in the ’40s knowing the Germans used it in their water given to prisoners; to keep them docile.” Love It or Leave It You really should get out more often [Ken Layne’s Desert Rattler: “A Plan That Could Not Fail, But Maybe Did,” Sept. 11]. These people you speak so badly about are much better off financially than you seem to think. They are a very good bunch of people and considering your inane opinions as valid would make anybody wonder about your sanity. After reading your piece of crap, I can understand why no REPUTABLE Journalist or Newspaper would publish your ridiculous letter. Go away and live somewhere else if you don’t like what you see. Maybe you would do well living in beautiful Baker, CA. –“Bowtieracer” Via lacitybeat.com Calling Jack D. Ripper Mick Farren’s “Don’t Fear the ReRun” (Sept. 11) was a good read with many great points. However, I think it is important to get a few things straight. 1. The 9/11 Truth Movement came well before Ron Paul. Many people within the movement agree with his answers to the problems that have plagued this nation for decades. Ron Paul is a congressman, not a 9/11 Truther. 2. The official story of 9/11 is in itself a conspiracy theory. So if you believe it, you’re a conspiracy theorist. And if you can be thrown in jail for conspiracy to commit (add crime here), then everyone who researches conspiracy theories should not be labeled as a conspiracy theorist. 3. The New World Order is just as real as FEMA. You can find quotes made by those who support this NWO on my blog (zombieamerica.blogspot. com.) Two that stick out are many years apart: “National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.” –Adolf Hitler during World War II; and “The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the longheld promise of a new world

order.” –President George Bush, in his State of the Union Address, 1991. On its face, this seems to be a coincidence. But with further research you will find that the Bush family was very much involved with the Nazi party before WWII. The NWO ideology is very real, supported by very real, very smart elites. These elites are the man behind the throne. Bush, like Hitler, is a puppet. He may not be able to balance his checkbook, but he can do what he is told (he learned how to take orders during his years at Skull & Bones). How does limiting my rights as an American benefit Bush when he can’t balance a checkbook? It doesn’t, for the fact he only has eight years. It does benefit in the long run the scientific elite who desire a one world government. Yes, this is about a one world government. This is what the global elite are building right under our noses. For more about one world government, I urge you to watch (for free on Google) endgame. Hitler proved that direct military force will not bring about their New World Order. So the scientific elite have implemented a gradual incremental assault on the people of the planet. This is why fluoride was put in our water in the ’40s knowing the Germans used it in their water given to prisoners; to keep them docile. I ask you, are we not docile here in America? Are we not mindless Zombies following the establishment line into tyranny by accepting Patriot Acts? Know thy enemy by their fruits. Anyone who attacks what makes America great (the Constitution) is your enemy. –“Zombie America” Via lacitybeat.com

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Monday, September 22: As anyone who reads the Bible or watches CNBC knows, we’re living in the End Times. Just about everything has gone to hell, a fact confirmed by UCLA as it issues an economic report that says we can expect “doldrums” for another two years; doldrums being a nice way of predicting lower housing prices, higher unemployment, and lower tax revenue as well as low, low, low consumer spending. All of that will inevitably be followed by civil unrest, plagues of locusts, fire in the sky and a 4 Non Blondes reunion tour. Of course, you don’t have to tell locals things are bad. We’ve already read the stories of fewer undocumented workers coming this way because they figure they can be just as poor in their own Third World nations. And there’s the latest trend of stealing car parts and/or works of art (statues, busts, etc.) in order to melt them down and sell them for scrap. It’s all very Russian Front. Man, if it weren’t for the continued and reliable success of the USC football team, I don’t know what we’d do. It’s nice to know that even in crazy times like this, you can depend on something as rock solid and dependable as the Trojans. God bless you, boys. Without you, I think we’d all just start burnin’ stuff. Again. Tuesday, September 23: Things have gotten so bad that even wealthy gadabout Orange County is feeling it. A report shows that the numbers of pets euthanized there jumped a whopping 21 percent in one year from about 12,000 in 2006-07, to close to 15,000 in 2007-08. OC Animal Shelter officials say the rise in Spotricide has a lot to do with the downturn in the economy. When people become nervous about their personal budgets, many times the cost of keeping a pet is deemed too expensive. Then there are those who’ve had their homes foreclosed, who are forced to live in areas of Orange County that are not petfriendly. (They’re not that crazy about Catholics, either.) Wednesday, September 24: One minute the number crunchers at UCLA are telling us to start scorching the earth – again – the next they’re announcing that mathematicians there have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, so everyone can just relax and buy that vacation home in Temecula. Yes, yes, a 13-million-digit prime number. Thank heavens. How much sweeter is life today? Much. Yes, the number is the 46th known Mersenne prime, which, as you know, is named after Marin Mersenne who was a 17th century French mathematician and John McCain’s freshman year RA. Mersenne discovered there are numbers – such as three, seven and 11 – that are divisible only by themselves and one. One is not a prime number, of course, though it does remain the loneliest number, owing in large part to it being a two-faced liar. Thursday, September 25: Flame on! USC loses a football game to Oregon State, 27-21, confirming that while some coaches can’t win the big one, the Trojans can’t win the little

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ones – you know, like the U.S. when it comes to war. Whether it’s this loss to a very bad Oregon State team or to an equally bad Stanford team last year or a similarly weak UCLA squad the year before that, USC under Pete Carroll has shown a remarkable facility for playing down to the competition. You know, like the U.S. when it comes to torture. Friday, September 26: So Alaska Governor Sarah Palin spoke with CBS anchor Katie Couric the past couple of days and the interview turned out to be what Republicans feared most: Sarah Palin speaking to someone not separated by a phalanx of teleprompters and hockey mom jokes. How bad was it? This is Palin when asked about the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street: “What the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh – it’s got to be all about job creation too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today.” Yeah. And about her assertion that she has foreign policy experience given that one can see Russia from Alaska, she said: “It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where, where do they go? Alaska.” Clearly, the bluster of the Republicans having nominated a purdy lady has worn off, and some conservative heavyweights are voicing real doubts, among them superhunk George Will and New York Times columnist David Brooks, who says Palin “has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness.” Preach, David Brooks! It’s gotten to the point that it’s no longer a question of whether Palin is qualified to be Vice President. The real question is whether she’s qualified to be governor of Alaska. Saturday, September 27: Things have gotten so bad for Palin that Hollywood mom Lynne Spears has gone on the offensive. Spears, mother of Britney and Jamie Lynn, wonders why she has been vilified as the world’s worst mom for having a pregnant teenage daughter while Palin was painted as a nicer version of Mother Teresa for having a similarly pregnant teenage daughter. Spears told Newsweek, “It’s been a very hypocritical situation.” Sunday, September 28: Um, I can’t believe I’m saying this, and maybe this is the End Times talking, but I think I agree with Lynne Spears.✶

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Monday Bailout Leads to Total Economic Collapse Yikes! The markets are closed and so are you. The Dow ended down 373 — more than 3% — and the S&P 500 dropped nearly 4%. But there’s good news if you are, say, a Saudi Prince: Oil shot the hell up by $16 a barrel, the biggest single-day climb since the Van Halen album 1984. Why do investors hate Hank Paulson’s plan to nationalize the collapsing U.S. economy while destroying capitalism and providing crucial help to the nation’s starving hedgefund managers? –Ken Layne

Saturday, October 11

Tuesday Media Standoff! Press (Almost) Boycotts Sarah Palin at the U.N. That gal with the lipstick is going to meet with Important World Leaders at the UN today, so naturally the McCain campaign did not want any reporters anywhere near that disaster. They said, “OK all you press organizations can get together and decide on ONE cameraperson to record the beginning of these meetings, before Sarah says something awkward about Hamid Karzai’s hat, but there will be no reporters to ask questions.” And for the first time in the history of ever, the press collectively told McCain to cram it. And then they took it back. There was going to be a full-on press boycott of the whole awful event, which really only meant the evening news wouldn’t be running silent footage of Palin shaking hands with some random dignitaries. But the McCain folks said, “Fine you can have ONE pool reporter in with your camera guy,” even though usual protocol is to let in one reporter each from print, TV, and radio. And the press said, “OK,” so now there is one camera person and one reporter on the scene to maybe film stuff or ask a single innocuous question before Sarah Palin disappears into her dark lair with Ban Ki Moon and rips off her latex mask, revealing Dick Cheney in a leather muumuu. –Sara K. Smith McCain, Obama in New Cold World War III Over Bailout Votes Here’s your conventional wisdom update, which in this case sounds VERY LIKELY: Democrats will go out of their way to support a bailout bill by Friday, and then all of the Democrats will support it if it’s a somewhat good one — like the friendly Dodd proposal from yesterday — and then, just you watch, the Republicans will all decide to vote against it (knowing that it will pass anyway) so as to run a populist campaign against the ObamaPelosi-Bush-Wall Street Socialism Bill of 2008. ELECTION OVER. We’d like to tell the Democrats to make good policy instead of good politics, but screw that, vote against whatever because who cares? Everyone just remember to stock up on canned goods. –Jim Newell John McCain’s First Press Conference of the 21st Century Remember when John McCain’s favorite activity was getting a sponge bath from his adoring media followers? Well, now he is just a wretched angry old man with no honor and no supporters, because the media has turned on him! All because he lies about everything, and is senile! UNFAIR YOU ARE ALL IN THE TANK. Let’s watch his thing, together, and see how he finally reminds everyone that he was, of course,

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Senator to City: Sack Up

Maybe Gloria Romero said it nicer than that By marc b. haefele

he state legislator who carried the failed bill to restore transparency to Los Angeles’s police disciplinary proceedings says she won’t carry it again until Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa covers her back. “If you want it, you have to show up where the fight is – and the fight is in the Capitol,” said Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero. “I carried the bill and when I looked, no one was there behind me.” The Eastside senator was recalling the moment this summer when her bill, SB 1019, having passed the Senate with bipartisan support, was ambushed and died in the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee. The mayor and LAPD Chief Bill Bratton had asked for the bill, but, though the city did lobby, the two were no-shows in Sacramento that crucial day. The bill sought to restore a generations-old LAPD policy whereby the names of allegedly malfeasant officers and details of the accusations against them were public record. Since a 2006 state Supreme Court ruling, the media and public have been locked out of all California police disciplinary hearings. The mayor objected to the new ruling and so did Chief Bratton (who later waffled). Together, they originally supported the SB 1019 bill.

The L.A. Times also editorialized for it: “Much of the recent improvement in Los Angeles Police Department accountability and community relations stems from the now-blunted ability of the public and media to monitor the disciplinary system.” The issue bounced back this month, when, under the new no-names policy, none of the 15 LAPD officers accused of excessive force violations during the 2007 May Day “police riot” was identified in the official LAPD disciplinary findings. Neither were their misdeeds described. These city employees will now be entitled to departmental appeal “board of rights” hearings which will also be closed to public scrutiny. This leaves open the possibility that the 15 accused officers could all be exonerated, minus any disclosure of who they were or what they actually did at the MacArthur Park immigration rights demonstration melee where hundreds of attendees and journalists were hurt when police violently cleared the area. The city now faces at least 315 legal actions for injuries purportedly sustained during the incident. Repeated queries to the Mayor’s Office as to whether Villaraigosa would support the bill’s reintroduction got no

response last week. “This is a basic issue of the public’s right to know,” said Romero. “But I stood alone there in that committee last year and took all the bullets, and the mayor didn’t bother to come to back me up.” The Assembly Public Safety Committee considering Romero’s successful Senate bill had been heavily lobbied by police unions, whose representatives threatened to support electoral opponents of any legislator who supported the bill. Their arguments included a contention that “someone in a cave in Afghanistan” might discover an LAPD officer’s identity in a discipline case and launch a personal attack against that officer. A Times investigation last year reported that, in all the decades the former open identification policy was in effect, there was no evidence of any actions against individual Los Angeles police officers resulting from any disciplinary disclosures. “Policy should not be made on the basis of irrational fears,” Romero said. “I’m willing to do it again. But first the city leadership has to put its act together – and show that it has the guts to support it – before I’ll reintroduce that bill.”✶

Their Money or Your Life: Rail Safety and You By Browne Molyneux

our companies own 90 percent of the rail in the United States. On the West Coast, Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) own the rail. What if the 405 freeway was owned by one guy and the 110 freeway was owned by another guy and your safety was dependent on how well their stock was doing? Let’s take ... oh, say ... Metrolink. It’s run by Veolia Transportation, a private transportation provider with headquarters in France and a primary office in Oak Bridge, Illinois. According to the Department of Transportation’s Department of Safety, over the last decade Metrolink has had a 100 percent increase in deaths and a 121 percent increase in injuries. In light of last month’s Metrolink crash: Should the federal government take over the running of the rail lines that are currently owned and operated by private companies? The Federal Aviation Association

(FAA) has many regulations the airlines must follow in order to fly, but rail isn’t regulated in the same way. There is a Federal Railroad Association (FRA), but its oversight seems to possess a vastly lighter touch than that of the FAA.

“Our job is to promote and try to ensure safety of railroads,” said Warren Flatau, senior public affairs specialist for the Office of Policy and Communications

at the FRA. “[The Metrolink crash] was largely preventable,” Flatau conceded. Mr. Flatau knows it was “largely preventable” because of studies done by the FRA, the findings of which would be implemented in the passage of HR 2095 (the Federal Railroad Improvement act of 2007). HR 2095 would implement Positive Train Control (PTC), which would use the BNSF Railway’s Electronic Train Management System (ETMS). The ETMS would first warn an engineer of potential problems and then engage the airbrakes of the train if those warnings did not work. An FRA document referencing a 2006 report on safety stated: “FRA has not been able to mandate PTC implementation, due to the limitations associated with, and outcome of the cost-benefit analysis required by law.” If safety is a concern, it should come ➤

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tortured, in the war, and it was painful. 4:28 PM — And the Dow closes down another 161 points, or another one-and-a-half percent. 4:29 PM — It’s starting! “… potential collapse of our financial system.” Ha, that is his intro, on MSNBC. 4:30 PM — Already stuttering. 4:30 PM — He was against the bailout before he was for it! 4:30 PM — “A great burden is on the American people.” 4:31 PM — Uhh, is he proposing that $700 billion be instead used to rebuild America’s infrastructure? 4:31 PM — No, apparently not. Just a pointless comparison. 4:32 PM — Is he aware the Senate sort of met today and had hearings about this bailout? 4:33 PM — No, apparently not. 4:34 PM — “The helicopters of Wall Street tycoons” are bad. Cindy McCain’s private jet is good! 4:34 PM — Earmarks! 4:35 PM — So, if there’s any relief for actual working people getting crushed by the housing collapse, it will be called “earmarks” by McCain, and then he’ll vote for it. 4:35 PM — Questions! 4:35 PM — McCain will not say whether he’ll vote for the bailout bill or not, because … it’s a great financial crisis, “the biggest financial crisis since World War II.” The hell is he talking about? He must be watching experimental TVs and wondering what happened to President Hoover. 4:37 PM — McCain is very proud of Carly Fiorina because she was once a secretary! He won’t answer any questions at all. 4:38 PM — Q: Which of those five things you just listed would be a deal breaker if it’s not in the bailout bill? McCain: “I can’t answer that. Blah blah the American people.” 4:39 PM — Would McCain support another economic stimulus plan? 4:40 PM — No. 4:40 PM — Cut taxes, etc., incentives … oh shit he is talking about Ireland again. All of America’s businesses are going to Ireland. 4:40 PM — OH DEAR GOD HE IS COMPLETELY SENILE. 4:41 PM — “We need to grow this government, ha ha, I mean, uh, we need to not grow this economy, uh, ha, thank you very much.” 4:46 PM — Now this pinhead Ron Christie is trying to defend what was probably the lamest press conference ever given by a major party candidate. 4:47 PM — See, Barack Obama is bad for not naming whatever thing will be a deal breaker for his support of the bailout plan. But McCain is good for not naming whatever thing will be a deal breaker for his support of the bailout plan. He’s a maverick! 4:50 PM — Okay, back to your regularly scheduled daytime cable bullshit. We will hide this remote again, in the special Desk Drawer of Sorrows, until Friday night when we have to watch the first debate. –KL McCain’s Kleptocracy Freddie Mac insiders tell invisible pretend newspaper The New York Times that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was actually taking $15,000 a month from the ruined mortgage giant until last month. –KL Wednesday Sarah Palin’s Alleged Lover’s Estranged Wife’s Brother’s Former Brother-In-Law Speaks! Well, if the National Enquirer’s latest story isn’t entirely factual we will just eat our hats. Once upon a time Sarah Palin’s husband Todd had a business partner — no, not that one — some snowmobile dealer named Brad Hanson, and Sarah Palin allegedly had an affair with this fellow. You see, Todd was always away on business, but Todd’s business partner stayed home, for the purposes of fucking Todd’s wife, apparently! So says the former brother-in-law of the brother of Hanson’s wife. He took a lie detector test and everything,

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would follow them to their graves. Well, they’re saying that 20 years later; they admit what everyone knew at the time. McCain’s lied about Obama’s tax plan so terribly, you’ve had this incredible spectacle of Rove, O’Reilly, and Fox News saying it’s gone too far. When the women on The View are the toughest interviewers out there, it’s really an indictment of the state of the media.

Stefan Forbes

But Katie Couric took Sarah Palin to the woodshed! Yes, because they’ve declared war on the media. Look what they did to Dukakis: They took a guy who’d lived the American Dream, and put him through this mockery. The Dukakis tank ad – all the text they ran over it [about weapons systems he supposedly was against] was a complete lie, and the media never checked it out. Now [the McCain campaign] has defined Obama the way they defined Dukakis – that achievements are elitist. Clinton understood the power of emotion over the power of the 10-point plan. You didn’t have to tell FDR how to connect with the common man – and he had a cigarette holder! Atwater showed you could take a fatally flawed candidate, in terrible times, and you could win. It’s not the candidate; it’s the playbook that does the work for you.

he morning after the first presidential debate, on his way from New York to D.C., filmmaker Stefan Forbes got on the horn to talk about his new documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. The film is affecting, from interviews with 1988 Democratic standard-bearer Michael Dukakis puttering sadly about his lovely Brookline, Mass., home to footage of Atwater after his diagnosis with brain cancer, when medication turned him into a scary, moon-faced figure he was loath to let anyone see. Democrats take it on faith that since even Atwater repented – after his diagnosis, he wrote letters to all the candidates he’d wronged in the GOP campaigns he ran – it is a given that the things he did were actually wrong. Tell it to Mary Matalin, seen here practically would Clinton have even made it to the spitting with fury that her friend White House? Atwater apologized. I don’t think Mary Matalin is a very nice person. –Rebecca Schoenkopf Why Atwater now, 17 years after his death? Is it that Karl Rove’s already been explored, and this looks back at the L.A. CityBeat: Good morning! I think even sophisticated political types hear the founding of his style? Lee Atwater was Karl Rove’s Karl Rove. name “Lee Atwater” and at most know He made him. Tucker Eskew – a key about the Willie Horton ad. Could you advisor to Sarah Palin right now – says give us a brief overview of the glory that in the film that Atwater was the first to was Lee Atwater? say perception is reality. The truth really Stefan Forbes: It was a fascinating story to me: How did this guitar-picking doesn’t matter, it’s how you spin it. He was a genius at convincing the media rascal from humble Southern roots it’s the show that matters, the horse grow up to be a kingmaker and a rock star? He put Reagan and Bush in power; race. Rove took that into the White House and used it as their philosophy he was a mentor to Karl Rove; and he of governing, with disastrous results. taught W. everything he knew about They want to cut down forests, what do campaigning. People don’t know that they call it? The Healthy Forests Act. in his final days, he started a smear campaign against Bill Clinton that could It’s a belief that spin, emotional appeals, mockery, are the deciding factors in have crippled his presidency. Lee saw American politics. And resentment – the potential of Clinton – here was a guy you couldn’t smear as a liberal or an that plays a key role! elitist. As a Southerner, he knew how to fight back against the Atwater playbook. What is it about the “elites” argument? Why would people resent having an People wondered if Atwater had lived,

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before costs. The Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997, which placed a $200 million cap on payouts for a single accident on a rail line, may well have been a prominent factor in letting this tragedy occur. With that cap, an unsafe train costs less money

than a safe train: It would have cost $2.3 billion to implement PTC on 100,000 miles of track. We need mandates, not suggestions – mandates that are implemented immediately. A decade is too long to wait for implementing technology that will prevent people from serious injury. The implementation of PTC, if HR 2095

intelligent leader? And what would Atwater do about Obama? How can a millionaire with seven houses and 15 cars be a man of the people? Obama can out-point McCain in debates all he wants, but until he resonates emotionally ... I caution anyone to underestimate the Atwater playbook. You see “arugula” talked about the way Belgian endives were in 1988. They can make vegetables elitist! It seems Karl Rove has passed the torch to his protege, Steve Schmidt, but maybe because their candidate is so flawed, their campaign is just falling apart. Steve Schmidt has taken the Atwater playbook past where Atwater would have taken it. He was a master; he knew there could be a backlash. It was so odd in your film, seeing people like Robert Novak – Robert Novak! – saying Atwater was peddling slanders against Dukakis, stories even he wouldn’t run. And Roger Stone – Roger Stone! – cautioning them that the Horton ad

passes, won’t be complete until 2014. Said an anonymous spokesperson from Congressman Henry Waxman’s D.C. office (how do you like that?), when asked how she felt about the rails being owned by or more strictly controlled by the government, “It would probably be pretty controversial with the rail industry ... . The railroad

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Was it fun interviewing [Reagan campaign manager] Ed Rollins? Did you have to coax it out of him, or did he start with his threat to Atwater – “If you ever do that again, I’ll fucking beat the living crap out of you” – right away? Yeah, it was fun. He provides the emotional core of the film. The power of his intense relationship with Atwater ... it was the most intense relationship of his life, more than any of his wives. It leaps off the screen! It’s always a matter of creating a bond with an interview subject; you have to have that trust. I didn’t want to make another liberal film, preaching from the screen. It’s a Greek tragedy, the story of an American original. As a filmmaker, it’s so rare that you get a life that’s so dramatic, if you wrote it, people would laugh you out of the room. I wanted to make room for the story to tell itself.✶ Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story premieres Friday at Laemmle’s Sunset 5.

companies are responsible for a lot of the investments in the rails.” Human life shouldn’t be a commodity, tossed about in corporate boardrooms. Should we allow private interests to dictate public safety? We are in a new era, and the rails of our country should be owned by the people.✶

WEEKETTE! metro.net so it must be true! He is backed up by an anonymous source who says “Brad was a good listener,” which is Alaskan code for “he was a furry.” –SKS

Obama’s Response to Crazy Ass Walnuts Obama has a podium set up, and he’s going to make a statement! Let’s watch the biotch. Among the important questions: Will Obama be wearing pants? Should Clay Aiken go to Washington to solve this crisis in his place, now that he’s a gay? GO GO GO! 4:40 — Here he is! One reporter was playing golf and he stopped to show up. Oh Boy. 4:41 — The economy is important. 4:41 — I CALLED MCCAIN FUCKING FIRST ABOUT A JOINT STATEMENT. TOM COBURN WAS THERE – ASK HIM. HE’S REPUBLICAN. 4:42 — Time for a bulleted list of Important things. 4:42 — Must have independent oversight board, taxpayers must get money back, Main Street must keep its roads or whatever. Free pay-porn subscriptions for all taxpayers if this thing passes. 4:44 — It’s not a Democrat or Republican problem — it’s no one’s problem, so let’s pay for it hooray QUESTIONS. 4:45 — First question: Was John McCain trying to fuck you in the ass with this thing? 4:45 — Answer: “Well let me explain the timeline,” meaning YES MOTHERFUCKER JOHN MCCAIN IS A POLITICAL SHITBIRD FROM PLUTO. 4:46 — “More important than ever” that we have the debate. Because of all the terrible problems today. 4:46 — President should know how to multitask. Ooh doggy. 4:47 — Question: Did John McCain tell you on the telephone that he wanted to cancel the debate, like a jackhole? 4:48 — Answer: He kind of mentioned that he might want to do that, but who knew he was SETTLED ON IT? Like what is that even. 4:49 — He told Capitol Hill that he’d come back if they wanted him, but he doesn’t want to introduce presidential politics into an already tenuous debate. Hmm well that sounds like a good response and stuff. HAHA CNN has a hilarious angry face of John McCain on its subscreen. 4:51 — Will there be a debate if there’s no decision Friday, Mr. Hussein? 4:51 — “Like I sez, if they want us up there we can go. Otherwise, let’s debate. Let’s just debate everything. I will debate his WIFE FTW.” 4:52 — Barry laughs, but he is so angry at this old lying coot Walnuts. 4:52 — We’re waiting for an interruption BREAKING NEWS thing from CNN announcing that McCain has fired Barack Obama from the SEC. Hey, a statement’s a statement right? 4:55 — He’s done, and he tells a reporter friend, “I’m having a great time.” Now he will go backstage and eat three live dogs out of rage. 4:56 — LOL, Chuck Schumer, direct quote: “I thought what Senator McCain did was just weird.” 4:57 — So to sum up: Barry will do whatever these Capitol Hill people want, but he’s still planning on debating. Don’t enter presidential politics into this. Thanks for doing that, Walnuts. You’ve just destroyed the economy. –JN Thursday McCain ‘Suspends’ Campaign to Get Palin out of Debates Here is a brilliant switcheroo! John McCain proposes delaying his debate if he has not singlehandedly resolved America’s financial crisis by tomorrow, so that way he and Barack Obama can debate next Thursday — the night when Sarah Palin and Joe Biden were set to debate. And then once they’ve rescheduled the Palin/Biden debate, John McCain can pull another crazy stunt — announcing his own daughter is fake pregnant, maybe, or firing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or refusing to appear in public in anything but a glittering leotard — and everyone will forget all about this Palin nut and how she withers under intense questioning by Katie freaking Couric. John McCain will personally bomb North Korea in an ancient fighter plane with a Muppet as his co-pilot before he allows Sarah Palin to debate anything besides a goldfish. A dead goldfish. –SKS China’s Astronauts Blast Off Again, for Spacewalk While George W. Bush begged us to go along with Henry Paulson’s plan to print $700 billion worth of Treasury bills to sell to the Chinese in a tragic attempt to somewhat delay our Greatest Depression and final decline as a nation, China itself has been, you know, doing stuff. They’re building entire gleaming new cities we’ve never ever heard about, and making all the fancy goods the world demands, and buying up all the natural resources in Africa and South America, and oh yeah they just launched another manned spacecraft, and this time the astronauts will do the first Chinese Spacewalk. 太空所有的星球塞盡我的股太空所有的星球塞我的股 America used to do that space stuff pretty good, back in the day. –KL Couric/Palin Sexterview: OMG You Are So Awful We Want to Die Q: Sarah Palin, please explain in Economics 101 terms how a crisis on Wall Street can eventually affect all people. A: snort can will health care eat potato cheap economy health poop cum umbrella face nose tax cut health penis eye stab number drink pepsi trade blah moose shit die cancer. –JN How John McCain’s Destruction of Bailout Compromise Went Down Ahem, “Inside an intense White House meeting over the financial crisis on Thursday, where nearly every key player came to an agreement on the outlines of the bailout package, Sen. John McCain stuck out. The Republican candidate, according to sources with direct knowledge, sat quiet through most of the meeting, never offered specifics, and spoke only at the end to raise doubts about the rough compromise that the White House and congressional leaders were nearing. McCain’s reluctance to jump on board the bailout agreement could throw the entire week-long negotiation into a tailspin,” the end. Just a fucking baby. –JN

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Friday George W. Bush Crying About the Greatest Depression What’s it take to make this guy, our moronic tool of a president, seem like an ever-so-slightly sympathetic figure? Well, there’s the hilarious global dancing he likes to do, and then there’s John

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BREAKING: Ha Ha, McCain Wants to Postpone Debate Because He’s Losing Because He’s So Worried About Economy Here’s your Associated Press bulletin: “AP NewsAlert Sep 24 02:51 PM US/Eastern NEW YORK (AP) - John McCain wants to delay debate with Obama to focus on economic crisis.” Has there ever been another presidential campaign that consisted solely of dumb muppet stunts? –KL

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old handsome joe By rebecca schoenkopf

oe Biden is my lover. And Jesus, it’s exhausting. Not that. We don’t do that. He’s married, you know. Just keeping up with all that tremendous excitement, that constant barrage of sexagenarian vigor. Sometimes we lie around, in my brain, and he punches the air, like a retard. “WE’RE GONNA GIVE ’EM THE OLD RAZZLE-DAZZLE,” he shouts. “WE’RE GONNA DO [SOMETHING ELSE LIKE WITH BOXING]!” whoops he. “Sweetheart, would you shut the fuck up?” I lovingly murmur. “Baby, what’d you do with my weed?” “Let’s sit down at the kitchen table,” Joe whispers to me, sexy-like. “We can talk about how we’re going to send the kids to college. What do you suppose we should do with Old Mom? And which bills should we pay?” I brush the wisps of silver hair from his high, kind forehead, already feeling that tingle. “Joe, baby, you’re a United States senator,” I remind him. “Until Musharraf holds his coup-thingy on our failed state, we’re golden. Old Mom can look out for herself: I God bless her. And my son’s an LAUSD high school student; he’ll be extremely lucky if he gets into SMC.” I, like God, love me some Old Handsome Joe. There is a true kindness, a true goodness, which he wields like a weapon, hiding that big sexy brain behind his Simple Joe grin, and rope-adoping ’em better than anybody I know. There’s honesty, too: “I’ve been all those places too,” he said, to Chris Matthews maybe, vis-a-vis the litany of hot spots John McCain has toured. He was smiling, and dismissive, an old sexy

Irishman. “Of course,” he said saltily, “that doesn’t mean I’m right.” I love every honest, fool word that falls from between his blinding white teeth. When he got in so much trouble last year for saying everyone in 7-Eleven was Indian, it’s not like he called them Pakistanis. When he said that idiotic thing about Roosevelt and the stock market crash and televisions, I shrugged it off (though that one was pretty cringey). Remember that time you didn’t know the difference between Marshall and MacArthur? I piously reminded me. Remember you still don’t? And when everybody started yowling and bleating and beating their breasts because he said the difference between him and Sarah Palin was that she was good-looking, it would have been the fakest outrage I saw all month – except that I saw the fake outrage of the entire GOP at once, because Nancy Pelosi had the gall to finger-point and blame-game, and when Republicans are at fault, no one may. (Pop quiz! What was the total value of my 50 shares of WaMu Monday after the House Republicans heroically defeated the bailout? I’ll give you a hint: a buck-seventy.) Sexist? My Joe didn’t tell Palin to fetch him a sandwich. I fetch him all the sandwiches he needs.

nd now, tonight, I get 90 minutes of the old razzle-dazzle, and I’m so tense and excited, I maybe can’t stand it. What if Sarah Palin can spit out her sound-bites? What if Joe cracks an albino joke? We’ll be having a lovely party in a flat-out gorgeous ballroom. (See Seven Days for info.) You could come and watch it with us. I God bless you, and goodnight.✶

Linthead billionaires and celebrity racists aside, third-party candidates traditionally get the short shrift from a horserace-obsessed American press. The big boys spend big money on ads, take profit margins of publishers in deadly seriousness, and hire consultants to massage the media into shape, all things fringe candidates either can’t afford or refuse on principle. Still, a dissident onetime hero can be assured of an audience, and Ralph Nader’s campaign appearance at USC last Friday had the vibe of one last clubs-only tour of an oldtimey rock star turned Archie Rice. Arriving at the Davidson building last Friday afternoon, I crept into a conference room to find the eminent consumer advocate trading quips with Sarah Palin impersonator Lisa Donovan for the camera. The actress has the Alaska governor’s twitchy sex-appeal and yapsack whine down cold, and Ralph’s appeared on Saturday Night Live, so the comedy for this YouTube ad wasn’t so bad as you’d imagine. The message was clear – let Nader into the presidential debates. After taping, Ralph exited, only to re-enter minutes later, stride purposefully to the podium at the other side of the room, and face a small battery of cameras to discharge his remarks. Running mate Matt Gonzales preceded, the silver-haired San Francisco lawyer living up to the “indie-rock Kennedy” hype with a short, choppy brief for political insurgency. Looking more like Cliff Robertson playing Ralph Nader than the four-time presidential candidate, Ralph swatted a few softballs, several times referencing the collapsing banking, corporate, and political structures as “People who are tearing the heart and soul out of America.” He wants Israel withdrawn to her ’67 borders, America to embrace solar power, and Dubya to back off Iran. When I asked the obvious question, “Is this the worst U.S. financial crisis of your lifetime?” Nader looked startled before arching an actorish brow and intoning, “This is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, but give it time, it might be the greatest financial crisis in U.S. history!” Well, raise my rent. Ralph, in town to tape a Bill Maher appearance, topped the bill at the Peace and Freedom Party rally held in the Embassy Room shortly after. Gonzales opened, discoursing on the utter worthlessness of Nancy Pelosi and observing of Democrats, “You can’t complain about George W. Bush after you’ve been propping him up for eight years.” The crowd numbered about 200 sedate folks, all students and local activists who cheered the star lustily on his appearance. Activism personified and a relentless pain in the asses of the mighty, Nader was primed by his morning media round and ready for a few more twists of Leviathan’s tail. Before his entrance, the overwhelmingly young audience shone like the classic-rocker kids I stood among during Roger Waters’s set at Coachella; a rare surviving fragment of a past they can actually use. –Ron Garmon

WEEKETTE! McCain. McCain parachuted into town yesterday and RUINED THE COMPROMISE that was at least going to maybe try to save the economy before it completely collapsed. Let’s see what George Junior has to say, as the stock market opens and plunges. 6:31 AM — Well, what’s that distant light over the mountains? Oh, the sunrise! Let’s switch back to D.C. time so we don’t feel so, uh, tired. 9:31 AM — There, that’s better! 9:34 AM — Oh, let’s open our brokerage website, if it hasn’t been closed by the government already, so we can follow the stock ticker without that 15 minute delay. Oh, nice, the Dow opens with a quick 125-point drop. 9:39 AM — Come on out, Jorge! 9:40 AM — “The legislative process is sometimes … not pretty.” Ha ha, you don’t say! 9:41 AM — That’s IT? What? –KL The Debate That Changed Earth (Not Really) John McCain actually showed up! And, well, he did a bit better than we expected, if only because we expected that Obama would greet

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him with, “Nice of you to finally show up, pussy.” But that wouldn’t really win over the special people who just started watching the teevee to find out who is going to be the president next time around. And yet, Obama won! Well, whatever, Joe Biden is on the Keith Olbermann show on MSNBC. Biden is laughing and, who knows, drunk? Ah they are still doing spin. Why isn’t Sarah Palin doing spin. Too dumb, right, she is drinking a Shirley Temple in Philadelphia somewhere. Okay let us try another outlet. CNN has nine people typing. Hmm we can sort of see that here, at your editor’s table, but it’s just one person typing. Umm, Barack Obama called McCain “John,” which is not polite? Or wait, it is friendly. It is not being like a professor? Oh god these people have to be sober for another hour. So at least we will not have to watch teevee again until next week, when Sarah finally gets her magic time! –KL Wonkette’s Weekette is brought to you by the magnificent bastards of wonkette.com.

By Daniel Stainkamp

ou awake in a daze. The thunderous rumble of heavy rubber on corroded asphalt, the hollow rattle of graffiti-thatched plastic panes, and the whiplash lurch of the aerodynamic juggernaut through fickle traffic lights is what has roused you. Perhaps you nonchalantly wipe a crust of dried blood from yr inner-ear or pore over an inexplicable pants stain or elegantly sip yr non-fat latte and carefully fold a newspaper under yr arm before adjusting yr monocle and staggering through the hostile jostle of stubborn extremities to the double-door maw. The behemoth slows, and Funkytown-esque pneumatic break s/fx slightly mystify yr still-thawing brain. As the grogginess sloughs off you give a lackadaisical wave of thanks to the bus driver and continue yr day where it left off. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just another day for a busrider; like me, a commuter with a bus pass. I take about 30 bus trips a week, and spend about four hours in a given day on or waiting for the bus. Although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only been an Angeleno for about two months, my immersion in public transport has given me a chance to hob-nob with the blue-collar snobs, the white-collar slobs, the green-collar mobs, and of course the occasional transvestite priest-slash-clown.

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’ve noticed idiosyncratic aspects of public transportation that create a unique liminal (threshold, in-between-time) environment. For one thing, there’s the athleticism required for standing riders. Wildly vacillating g-forces are created by the frenetic footwork of the bus drivers (those loyal public servants whose personalities range from the zombie/ catatonic/automaton type to the exuberant/tweaker/tourguide type) so agility is important when wading through the crowded corridors. A delicate balance of stamina, endurance, and a minimal propensity toward frotteurism is necessary for a satisfactory trip, and requisite for those planning on being a commuter or for those considering a career in busriding. To avoid embarrassment, and also to look cool, you’ll need to be able to shift yr body weight and flex yr pole-holding arms in sync with the helter-skelter gravity changes in the straw-bent chamber; the strutting, self-conscious bus poseurs are quickly outed, as soon as the behemoth resumes its lumbering, by their dog-in-a-car stumbling and lunging toward the safe pillars of chromium or the rigid, fauxergonomic seats decked in thin swaths of kaleidoscopic cloth. After you’ve managed to gain yr bearings, a new challenge of proper bus etiquette arises. If you are a young man like me, don’t sit down in the front half of the bus, because you’ll probably feel obliged to give up yr seat to one of those people so burdened by the crushing accumulation of age or gender that it would be brutal to deny them a short rest during their travails. You know the type I mean. Old people. And women. Also, the pair of inward-facing seats at the front of the bus must be folded up to accommodate the less peripatetically inclined commuters, so yr chances of having a nice, recuperative, uninterrupted sit up front further dwindle. If you can manage to slither yr way through the obstacle course of dangerously akimbo elbows, stubbornly protruding knees, and sharply cocked hips, there’s a chance you can sit on what I consider the thrones of the bus, which are the back-corner seats. These seats are optimal because they offer extra legroom, a footrest, a primo unobstructed window-view to keep you aware of yr environs, and seats that face forward for minimal nausea and disorientation. Also I swear to god this one time one of those seats had Magic Fingers. And for only a quarter! God bless the U.S.A. But I digress; the older folks tend not to venture up the rubber-blunted stairs to the thrones, so chances are you’ll only be obligated to give yr seat up if you’re feeling chivalrous. Bonus hint: Give yr seat a quick swab with yr finger before sitting to avoid bum piss, spilt

boba, and sweat cesspools. If you’ve managed to get a seat and are taking a long ride, consider watching some Transit TV (as if you had an option), MTA’s foray into the lush and untamed wilds of media technology. Like an effulgent LCD beacon in the dank catacombs of the bus, Transit TV provides a real-time map of the bus’s progress through the streets, which is actually a really useful feature for non-natives or Angelenos on an MTAdventure. But the map displays are frequently interrupted by the real meat ‘n’ taters of Transit TV: A minimally useful, barely relevant hodgepodge of news, PSAs, and “entertainment” segments. Examples of this include Pat Sajak’s vapid “Q&A” sessions, the occasionally interesting but usually soul-shattering trivia tidbits, inexplicably long segments of “contemporary” extreme sports or dance and music stylings (such as break dancing in hip-hop beat relief ), a faintly gruesome pair of disembodied hands that perform magic tricks, and sometimes there is a cat who peeks its head from behind the MTA logo, a la Kilroy, and is cute. With such accommodations it must be blaringly clear why I’m hooked on bus. If you haven’t yet been spurred to take off yr headphones, either by the helpful Styrofoam voice that informs riders of approaching streets and stops requested, or by the incessant audio accompaniment to Transit TV, do it now, because the best parts of the bus are, naturally, the Busfolk. And even if you don’t have the guts to strike up a conversation, you can always just stare out the window and eavesdrop on yr ostentatiously conversing comrades. Listening to other riders rewards you with voyeuristic attunement to a myriad of issues: youthfully audacious opinions on esoteric musicians, genuinely mind-blowing philosophizing among pretentious professionals or the schizophrenically strung-out, the stumbling mumblings of crumbums humming dim hymns that slowly cascade to dull dins, painful breakup conversations, reflections on and analysis of recent movies or TV programs, and raw, unspun political punditry. ut arguably more compelling than these topics is the prevalence of burgeoning or, alternatively, old-growth

Buslove. Now, to all you icehearted antiromantics who’re still crippled by the pangs of love unrequited and the sting of jilt, I beseech you save yr scoffs and jeers. Buslove is real. On one occasion, I listened to two strangers sit down beside each other, kick off with an endearingly trite icebreaker, move from the niceties and lay meteorology to vocational grumblings to plans of conquering Hollyweird and self-actualizing, and from there to the crucial moment of name-exchange. There’s another type of Buslove, which can be touching or repulsive depending on how you perceive it,

interpersonal interaction I’ve ever experienced. Often bizarre, sometimes awkward and occasionally frightening, but meaningful nonetheless. Regular conversations with strangers are often merely tools to ameliorate the drudgery of commuting or to prevent the dangerous and potentially sinful activity of introspection, but during the broad yawns of time on the bus, there lurks the potential for authentic connection and brilliant conversation. You just have to allow yrself to engage yr fellow Busperson. Donning a festive hat at a jaunty angle won’t hurt either. Seriously! A crucial aspect to becoming a part of this impromptu

and that is the PDA among those who’ve found their profound human connection in some perfect erstwhile moment but who’ve decided to take it along for the ride. Case in point: I was brought to tears by the sight of an older couple sitting across from me at 3 a.m. one morning; the woman was asleep with her head cradled by the man’s shoulder, and he had his arm wrapped around her such that his weathered hand was perfectly positioned to tenderly caress the smooth face of his slumbering partner. With a look of tranquil contentment on his face, he stroked her cheek and scalp for the half-hour bus ride, and gently roused her when their stop came; they walked with fingers interlaced off into the witching-hour L.A. night. I never would’ve expected it, but bus environs are indeed host to some of the most meaningful moments of

web of humanity is finding and recognizing yr means of connection. In my experience, the cigarette represents the pinnacle of the conversational conduit. Also, according to a recent and unverifiable study, it makes you 15 percent cooler. For instance, you may find yrself rigidly postured on one of those sunstained, advert-plastered Playskool plastic benches and adjacent to another soul with whom you desire to converse. And you may ask yourself: How did I get here? And you may ask yourself: What’s a good icebreaker? I find that either asking to bum a smoke or bumming a smoke to such a soul is adequate precedent for at least a brief exchange of platitudes and at best a discussion on the nature and function of art in revolution. Pretty outlandish, pretentious even, I know. Except, the latter happened

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to me on one light-polluted L.A. night as the exhaust fumes and the stench of rancid garbage played delicately off the smog-haloed moonbeams. And although nicotine was present, it wasn’t necessary; in lieu of substance, calamity serves as a glorious conversational catalyst. Bathed in the antiseptic tangerine streetlight, I stood and gazed indiscriminately into the dim thicket of concrete and plastic, drawing deeply on a stogue. Without warning, an ’80s-era bone-colored van spackled with rust rear-ended a Mercedes coupe waiting at a stoplight, crunching and chipping away the metallic gray paint, which in

origins. A veritable torrent of twocents, conjecture and hypotheses were exchanged between myself and Rafik. Our meandering and probably a little overzealous conversation bounced from musings on a nation unfettered by gasoline-addiction, to the woeful stagnation of bipartisan politics, to the nature and function of art in revolution, to the unfortunate negative externalities of religious zeal, to the importance of creative expression to one’s psychological and spiritual well-being. The conversation left me reeling. I rarely have this caliber of conversation with close or sober friends, let alone complete strangers. I was lucky enough

turn caused that Benz to rear-end the platinum-hued Mercedes coupe in front of it. As the trio of fender-bent autos slunk drearily to a nearby gas station parking lot for the burdensome exchange of insurance info, I turned my head to a middle-aged man who was waiting beside me for the bus and who also bore witness to the crash. We traded chuckles and sympathetic ribbings of the poor Hispanic van driver, who we agreed would probably be out at least a couple grand for his inattentiveness. From there the conversation began to spiral into one of the most poignant and delightfully free-associative conversations I’ve had. Using an old standby – “What’re you doing awake at this hour?” – I learned that the man had just completed his treatise on the globe’s oldest constitution, millennia old and of Fertile Crescent

to have calamitous happenstance as an impetus of thought-exchange, but this is unpredictable and rare; if you want to inundate yrself in the magnificent and whimsical posits of Busfolk, it’s integral to have some sort of conversational conduit on hand; choose a poison and pack it. Booze is always a sure shot, especially for the post-midnight tetesa-tete. Sharing sips out of an oval of Smirnoff, I was able to meet Miguel, an adamant clubgoer I’ve run into multiple times since our first encounter. Spectating others’ sipping of the sauce can also serve as a buttress to conversation. Like this one time, it was 3 a.m., and I bummed a Parliament Light from a young couple, which opened the floodgates for talk of genres of electronica, information technology, the tragicomic veneer of Los Angeles, and the

local party scene, among other things. As we shot the breeze under the fluorescent bus stop glow, we noticed a drunk Hispanic man exchanging ostensibly pugilistic lividities with one of his busboy co-workers (the air of animosity was clear, even if Gabriel, one of the men, and I, didn’t understand Spanish, which we both did); there was even a miserably failed punch thrown before the bus arrived. Upon this event Gabe mentioned that during his late-night adventures on the bus there was “never a dull moment,” which proved prophetic. I followed the carefully sauntering Gabe and John to the back of the bus (they headed straight for the thrones), and we talked for a minute or less before we were joined by the aforementioned borracho. In slurred, thickly accented Spanish, the drunken busman began his tale of woe to us, but not before pulling three bottles of Corona Extra out of his book bag, opening one with his metal tooth, and offering us the remainder of his grog. We politely declined, and the man went on sloshing and gurgling about the argument he had with his co-worker over purportedly misappropriated tips, how co-worker was so enraged that he threatened to call ICE on him, how his wife and he were at odds due to his drinking, and how the children were suffering as a result, as well as mounds more that we were unable to decipher. After he finally staggered off the bus, Gabe, John, and I exchanged nervous grins and were able to briefly reflect on the magnificent madness of red-eye MTA briefly before they reached their stop and exited bus right. Never a dull moment. That’s for goddamn sure.

n a little less than two months as a Busperson, I’ve been exposed to a near-perpetual circus of humanity; a grand theatric free-for-all among the masses. But it’s human drama and comedy that is actual and tangible and more important because of it. The exquisite minutiae (from helping a struggling, wheelchair-ridden elderly man off the bus by giving him a sensitive push, to retrieving an escapee rolling orange for a homeless gentleman hunched under a cadre of bags, to trying to disregard the absolutely absurd rants of a twitching man twisted off that kryptonite, to being a one-man audience to a heavily accented African comedian, to the occasional Quaker wedding, to politely turning down an offer of rock coke from a bug-eyed, hooded pusher, to cultivating the nervous inertia necessary when sitting beside an individual of

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prurient interest) all accumulate to corroborate the idea that the bus is an accurate sampling of the real (as opposed to the Hollywood plastic set) population, of the no-collar stiffs scraping by to get over. And I could go on and on with misfit tidbits and smoke-fueled local anecdotes, like how the bus aisle can be easily transformed into a hive of captive evangelism if you are unlucky enough to encounter the vociferous, adamant, earsplitting prattling of a certain shawled bilingual lady who will browbeat you with Jesus’s love if you so much as glance at her. (Incidentally, I am convinced this woman cursed me after I solemnly shook my head in response to her Christ polemic; a can of soda mysteriously burst inside my satchel and drowned my laptop, camera, phone, notebooks, and iPod in sticky cola directly after my nonverbal dissent.) It’s a little ironic to me that as a man of such little faith, I have found the spaces and events of public transportation to be the closest thing to sacred I have ever experienced. I am frequently overcome with an overwhelming sense of empathy when sardined among my fellow Busfolk. At least during this temporal fragment of my being, I am a member of this scrappy, lovable lot; I notice others nodding off or reading or listening to music to pass the time just like me, and I am struck with a sense of natural fellowship that is spiritually rich but devoid of the trappings, trip-ups, and traps of organized religion. Rumbling along on the bus, it becomes exceedingly obvious that I am no martyr or workhorse for working 70 hours a week, I’m just one of tens of thousands of people here who were not born into privilege but who are ambitious and strong-willed and tenacious just the same, with goals of self-sufficient autonomy or family providing or simply cake-stacking. I understand and identify more with people on the bus without ever even talking to them than I do with the upper-crust jet sets I occasionally encounter. Also I find myself getting expensive tequila thrown in my face far less frequently among the formers. I live and work in a city so choked by the plastic and porcelain goddesses and the ersatz titans of the silk screen, a city so drowned in materialistic glitz bliss, that I once felt I would surely be an alien, what with my disillusionment with cinema culture and my lack of avaricious aspirations. But I think I’ve experienced an authentic paradigm shift in my perception: The Los Angeles working class is not a subculture, and we’re not a minority. The petty, outlandish, disconnected superstars are the anomalies, and the whole city runs on Busfolk. And we still run to catch the bus. Also one thing I forgot to mention is the bus has no bathroom, so keep that in mind.✶

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coating of breading and a sprinkling of caption grated parmesan. The dipping sauces were even retro – no remoulade in sight, but that was real Thousand Island dressing next to the ketchup and ranch. We continued with the soups that are included with all entrees – chicken noodle for my wife, yellow split pea with ham for me. The chicken was disappointing at first, flat and tasteless, but the addition of a little salt vastly improved it. The pea soup was rich, thick, and fine just as it was served. My wife had ordered fish and chips ($12), a benchmark for her, and I picked a chicken pot pie ($11) because I had to see if it still tasted like I remembered. It did – no seasoning needed, a rich chicken and vegetable stew with a homemade-tasting pie crust on top. I went through it like a buzz saw, finishing the last of it while it was still almost too hot to eat, which I probably also did as a kid. My wife ate daintily, pausing in consumption of her fish only to snag some of mine before it disappeared. The cod had been tempura battered, which I’m sure they didn’t do in the ’60s, but it passed with flying colors – no greasy taste and the fish was hot and moist, the batter crisp, and the homemade tartar sauce had a nice vinegary sharpness. With the big portion of fries, it was a substantial meal, and she took some fish home for the next day’s lunch. I had saved room for my favorite treat – a slice of the gooseberry pie ($4.75) that had always been my favorite dessert. Alas, the berries were raisin-like and mildly sour, while I had remembered them as firm, grapelike, and refreshingly tart. Du-par’s At Du-par’s, everything changes but stays the same owner Bill Naylor confirmed my suspicions – the loss of farmland in California has By Richard Foss made fresh gooseberries impossible to find at once – they ended the use of frozen juices now. To keep gooseberry pie on the menu he f you have a style that has been has switched to frozen berries, which have and hash browns that had been adopted successful for over 70 years and is in recent years, and they brought in a chef still doing well, you don’t want to a similar flavor but a more mushy texture. change it – if you’re smart, that is. There who had worked with Wolfgang Puck to On the plus side, the pie that used to be are plenty of examples of businesses that add items like an Asian chicken salad and available only infrequently is now offered sauteed scallops. The fresh products were engaged in disastrous re-brandings and year-round. welcomed, most of the new items weren’t, spiraled into irrelevance or bankruptcy. That slice of pie excepted (and I can’t and wags dubbed the place Sub-Pars. Witty, Du-par’s restaurant at Farmers Market complain that the restaurant doesn’t serve but harsh. Lesson learned, the restaurant was faced with the need to upgrade its what they can no longer get), it had been a went back to the comfort food that people kitchen two years ago, and they decided tasty trip down memory lane. My wife grew liked in the first place. to remodel the restaurant while they were Which was why I was so happy as I sat at up on the East Coast and hadn’t had my at it. Architectural purists groaned at the prospect of another landmark rebuilt as an the table on the patio and watched my onion experiences, and she enjoyed it just as much. imitation of itself, but most have admitted rings and fried zucchini arriving. When I I’ll be returning to Du-par’s again soon, but was a kid, Du-par’s had been the final stop that it was well handled. The renovation first I have to spend some time with this when my grandparents took me to Farmers brought the restaurant closer to its seed catalog – I want fresh gooseberries, I original roots, with the restoration of a big Market, and I remembered the soup and have a back yard and a trellis, and I’m going chicken and fresh pies. I don’t remember community table that was replaced by a onion rings or zucchini, and doubt that back to use them. V lunch counter in the 1950s. The question then became whether the then they cost $7.25 each, but you can only Du-par’s is at the corner of 3rd and Fairfax, ask for so much turning back the clock. menu would return to the simple items (323) 933-8446. Validated parking in lot, open These did taste homemade and handmade, our grandparents enjoyed at that table. Here management went in both directions the rings crisp, the zucchini with a thick 24/7, no alcohol served.

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Bad News from the Front … Sorr y to tell all you guys this, but science has struck another blow in the war between the sexes. A study at Yale Medical School shows that women are twice as likely as men to taste very acutely. The study posits that throughout histor y, women tasted food before presenting it to their offspring, and those with the most acute senses could spot poisons and pass their genes along. Of course, it might be that many generations of men eating their own bachelor pad cooking has dulled male senses. Either way, if your lady friend sniffs something in your refrigerator and thinks it’s a bit off, assume she’s right – that salami you bought in Februar y isn’t worth arguing over anyway … . We Do! “Who needs sake?” is the question that begins the announcement of a sushi and wine dinner. Well, I don’t actually need sake, but I rather like it, especially with sushi. 55 Degree Wine in Glendale is the company that asked this question, and on Oct. 6 they’re holding another dinner that pairs sushi rolls with Italian wines. I’m keeping an open mind – the variety of flavors in both wine and sake is considerable and the Italians make many wines that go well with seafood, so judicious pairings could be pretty impressive. If you want to find out for yourself, call 55 Degree Wine at (323) 662-5556 to reserve … . The Wine That Put the Port In Portugal … Though the country is most famous for those dessert wines that take up to a century to mature, Portugal also makes delightful fruity whites and full-bodied reds, not to mention Vinho Verde, the tasty green wine that ought to be popular around St. Patrick’s Day. You can try 150 different bottlings at an event Oct. 16 at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey. It’s a benefit for the SPCA, so dogs and cats everywhere will applaud your generosity, though the fur muffles the sound quite a bit. Check spcala.com for more details, and raise a glass of Albariño for Fido while you’re there … . And for an Encore, Italian Food With … Beer! The only Italian beer I can remembering offhand is Peroni, which isn’t bad enough that I refuse it or good enough that I seek it out. Italy has never been big beer country – when some German priests sent a barrel of it to Rome in the 1300s, the wine-loving pope thought it was something they drank as a penance. He congratulated them on their willingness to drink something that tasted so awful and assured them their souls would be better for it. The current occupant of the Chair of St. Peter is from Bavaria and probably has the chefs at Vatican City working out all sorts of nifty combinations of Italian food and beer, but he has apparently been too busy to publish anything on the subject. The folks at Wine Expo and Il Forno Restaurant in Santa Monica will try their hand at it and prove that the juice of the barley can pair well with Italian food. (We had already figured out that pizza goes well with beer, actually.) On Oct. 20, they’ll roll out a menu of beer-friendly Italian cuisine with lambics and lagers, bitters and bocks, pilseners and porters and all manner of other potables. As of press time there are still a few places left – call (310) 828-4428 to reserve. –Richard Foss We accept tips: RichardFoss@earthlink.net.

LIVING ECO TOPIC

Serving Patients in the Los Angeles Area Since 2005

mind the gap By coco tanaka

suppose it’s appropriate that I was in American Apparel when I first thought about the ecological correctness of my underwear. First, there’s the retailer’s high-minded message of immigration reform, allorganic cotton, and sweatshop-free labor. Great, grand. More vitally, everything about the porny clothier, right down to the wallpaper of softcore Polaroids that somehow dope me into believing that a purple lamé unitard is a winning plan (it is not, ever), basically screams “TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES RIGHT NOW, WE MEAN IT, STRIP!” Back to the panties, though. If you can make it past all the Mr. Sketchcolored shorts inspired by Hooters (I am not making that up), American Apparel has a pretty inspiring selection of earth-friendly undies for him and her. It is, as are all things American Apparel, a provocative collection. And in the recent, sometimes draining tradition of retooling everything in your life to be eco this and eco that, unmentionables are worth mentioning. Paraphrasing that which I believe brave Sisqo implied: Change your thong, change the world! Buying organic cotton is the idiotproof way to keep your intimates from killing you softly with pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Aside from Dov Charney’s perv emporium, Patagonia is another surefire spot for junk-safe boxers. Thanks to the stupidly named C-IN2, renewable bamboo fiber has also found its way into our pants, greening our jocks and bras. I’ll be honest – the first thing that comes to mind when I think of bamboo is neither mammary support nor nunu guardian. First I think of adorable and hungry pandas, then WWII torture techniques, and then of the green movement’s darling material, the world’s fastest-growing woody plant. But C-IN2 (seriously, the only way the name could be dumber is if U came after it, and then Destiny’s Child made it a song) isn’t the only one capitalizing on the biodegradable scourge of POW fingernails: Elita has bamboo-rich, magical bras with antibacterial properties that regulate your body temp to keep you cool. Still not impressed? Fine, cynic, just go to their website and feast the eyes. Ahoy, beefcake! And speaking of “Ahoy, beefcake,” I have no qualms with ironic message panties. I went to England once (after

I saw London, I saw France!) and bought a cut-rate pair of knickers with the phrase “Mind the Gap” on the front. No one else thought they were hilarious, and in retrospect, they were so right. Even more troubling than the bloomers’ unamusing tackiness was the fact that they came with a tag that warned against ever wearing them! Something about flammability, I think. Apparently, I was skivvies-shopping in the right country but the wrong part of town, as the U.K. has the ecofriendly-undie market cornered (the pretty stuff, anyway). Green Knickers’ “Eat Organic” panties put my synthetic novelty pair to shame, both for their all-natural material and encouraging advice. And Enamore, now available stateside at local shop Origin 23 (in the Cooper Design Space), manages to sex up soy and hemp with Bettie Page-ish ruffles and silks. Sexing up soy is not easy, but Enamore does it like gangbusters. Victoria’s Secret, which agreed to make its catalogs with slightly fewer Canadian forests not too long ago, has also brought a few of its angels down to Earth with some (certainly not a lot) organic options, mostly aimed at the age group supporting the sororitydriven Pink line. (Does anyone else remember when “pink” was code for “vagina”? No? Never mind.) I recently saw a girl wearing a tee that said, vertically, “Let’s/Do/It/For/ The/Planet/Pink.” I don’t know what the planet Pink is like, but I hope its citizenry wears cooler shirts.

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ow, we all know that a truly green life is one in which you reduce the amount of crap you purchase, which should be a cinch in this fourth-circle-of-hell economy. Like any clothing, undies’ main impact comes in your care for them. Delicates call for cold water, green laundry detergents, and maybe a line-dry if you’re feeling extra Begley. And because I never leave my extremists hangin’, going commando is still a good way to give your wicked chamber a breather from all that confinement. There’s still hope that all those troubly-bubbly starlets showcasing their bare clams are actually shucking for Gaia. Can’t be the least enjoyable way to show our Mother some love – to quote Cosmo Kramer, “I’m out there, Jerry, and I’m lovin’ every minute of it!”✶

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Greater-Than Sudoku For this “Greater-Than Sudoku,” I’m not givin’ you ANY numbers to start off with! Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1-9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When you’re done, as in a normal Sudoku, every row, column, and 3x3 box will contain the numbers 1-9 exactly one time. (Solving hint: try to look for the 1s and 9s in each box first, then move on to the 2s and 8s, and so on). psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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JONESIN’ CROSSWORD “You Can Look It Up”-eight entries from eight decades of the OED.

by Matt Jones

Across 1 Go away 7 Booker T. & the ___ 10 Frantic way to run 14 “Roundheads” leader Cromwell 15 Shade tree 16 Placed horizontally, with “down” 17 *Dilapidated old vehicle (1929) 18 “O Sole ___” 19 Actress Bancroft 20 Aerial skateboarding maneuver 21 *Ride on a lightweight twowheeled vehicle (1944) 23 552, to Nero 25 How some descending lists are sorted 26 “The Pit and the Pendulum” author 28 ___ de mer 30 *Chickpea and sesame spread (1955) 34 *Intimidating psychological ploy (1963) 36 Cardio-boxing routine 37 Bullring cheer 38 Enzyme type 41 Author Deighton 42 “24” protagonist Jack 44 *Drinking game involving cups and a table tennis ball (1972) 46 *Educated, well-paid professional (1984)

48 Decade divisions: abbr. 49 What separates Romeo from Juliet? 50 “___, meeny, miney, moe...” 52 Beliefs 54 *Coffee shop with access to the Internet (1994) 58 Last check box option, sometimes 62 WWI spy Mata 63 Pub pintful 64 *Paper puzzle usually involving a 9x9 grid (2004) 65 55-down students, slangily 66 Road map lines: abbr. 67 Apple music service 68 Measurement represented as ‘ 69 Grab a plate 70 Picture-taking word Down 1 Martial arts school 2 Israeli airline 3 Aspirin form 4 Stayed away from 5 Drive away 6 Give it a go 7 Short note 8 Showiness 9 Like good landings 10 Its state flag is a red X on a white background 11 “Pedi’s” mate, in day spa lingo 12 Swine sound 13 ACL’s locale 21 Dolphins’ home 22 Computer networking device that may be wireless

24 Large-screen film format 26 Rice side dish: var. 27 Outdo 29 ___ example (acted as a role model) 31 Honeydew, e.g. 32 Pipe section under a sink 33 Dance partner? 34 Techno musician born Richard Melville Hall 35 More gruesome 39 Eagle’s nest 40 Meeting of U.S. Congress: abbr. 43 Certain type of fencer 45 Late 47 Put in a crate 51 Host city of a 1945 “Big Three” conference 53 Delta opening 54 “Top ___” (Bravo reality series) 55 Alma mater of five U.S. presidents 56 It may be covered in a white moldy rind 57 Music gathering, perhaps 59 Sharpen 60 Supplements, with “out” 61 Misleading trick 64 Word often seen in square brackets ©2008 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0382.

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LACITYBEAT 18 OCTOBER 2-8, 2008

LIVING THE LAST SPORTSWRITER

HAPPY CLINCHING DAY! BY NEAL POLLACK

round 8:45 p.m. a week ago Wednesday, my friend Jerod called. “This is it,” he said. The D’Backs had already lost humiliatingly to the Cardinals, again, knocking the magic number down to two. Now the Dodgers had the bases loaded against the Padres, who by the end of the season were fielding a Triple-A club, and not even a very good one. “I’m listening in the car,” he said. “Are you watching?” “I’m watching on ESPN GameCast,” I said. “Why are you whispering?” “Because it’s the night I volunteer at the yoga studio ... .” “You’re watching the game at the yoga studio?” “If I volunteer, I get free classes.” “That’s classic. So do you know what’s going on?” “The computer is a little slow.” “Well, they just yanked Estes, and Manny’s coming up.” “Hang on, I’m gonna go outside.” I did, and now I could stop italicizing my voice. “FUCK, DUDE!” I said. “THEY’RE GONNA FUCKING DO IT! THIS HAS BEEN THE MOST AWESOME MONTH EVER!” “I know, right?” “We’ve gotta start planning for the playoffs!” “Totally,” he said. “Let’s talk tomorrow.” I went back into the studio office. Manny grounded out to second during savasana. But he homered later as part of a six-run eighth inning, and the Dodgers went on to dismantle the Padres 12-4. Jerod sent me a text message, which I received while wetSwiffing the studio floor. “Manny!” It read. “53 rbi in 50 games with dodgers.” The next morning, I began to examine my playoff attendance opportunities. I got an e-mail from the guy who I buy loge tickets from during the season at incredibly discounted rates. His best seats, for the Division Championship Series, were going for $450 per set of four. Otherwise, he had a lot of crappy reserve and pavilion seats that he was offering for 70 bucks each, or more. Ah, I realized. This is how he makes his money. “I want to go to a playoff game,” I said to my wife. “How much are tickets?” “One hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each.” “That’s not too bad for a World Series game.”

“That’s for the first round.” “Jesus Christ! You can go to one game. No more.” “But ...” “Maybe it’s not a good idea to be spending a lot of money on baseball tickets when the financial system is collapsing.” Dammit, woman, I thought. Why are you so wise? Look, it’s never a good time to spend money on baseball tickets, really, unless you actually have money to spend. But I’d ridden to hell and back with this fucking team. I’d

watched Andruw Jones bat more than 200 times. I’d attended a game that Esteban Loaiza started. I wanted payoff. When I called Jerod, he agreed that our broker wanted too much for Round One. Maybe we’d pony up for an LCS game, and definitely if the World Series miraculously returned to Dodger Stadium. We could spend a third of that money and have a series of kick-ass viewing parties with lots of beer and weed and salty food. Meanwhile, we had other avenues. Jerod’s wife was trying to schmooze tickets out of her corporate division boss. Another friend of ours has a longstanding relationship with a ticket provider of good standing. He’d landed World Series tickets in New York after 9/11, so getting DCS tickets in Los Angeles shouldn’t be a problem. Or maybe some other miracle would occur. That seemed like a good overall plan to me. I e-mailed my broker and told him no thanks for this round, but asked him to keep us in the hopper for the next two series. A couple of hours later, the Dodgers clinched. I learned this as many true Dodger fans did: By watching Albert

Pujols hit a home run against the D’Backs on GameCast. “Whoo-hooo!” I said, raising my fists weakly as that little cartoon ball left the little cartoon stadium in the box on my screen. It was about as exciting as getting Rick Roll’d. Later that night, the Dodgers celebrated. Manny hopped from TV camera to TV camera like a channelsurfing seven-year-old. Russell Martin and Matt Kemp sprayed fans with champagne. The players loved one another nearly to the point of Frenchkissing as the Stadium turned into a party. I was there a lot during the 2004 and 2006 seasons. It never felt like that, even after we clinched. This team was different. This was magic. “GAWWWWWWWLEEEEEE!” exclaimed 20-year-old Texan Clayton Kershaw as his Dodger pals drenched him with alcoholic liquid. “THIS IS THE GREATEST FEELING I’VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE!” I yelled upstairs to my wife. “You’ve gotta get down here and see this,” I said. Regina could give half a shit about the Dodgers, but, to her credit, she came downstairs. “This makes me want a beer,” she said. “So let’s have a beer!” I said. “Let’s celebrate.” “We can share one.” “Hell no, I want my own.” “Share one.” As Regina and I shared a beer, we watched the Dodgers dump liquid all over much-reviled (by me, at least) owner Frank McCourt. You had to give Frank credit, man. He held the line all year, and got us Manny for nothing. McCourt put on swim goggles and a snorkel, and he danced aggressively with his boys. I began to tear up. “Look at that,” I said. “They’ve really come together! I LOVE THIS TEAM! Isn’t it something what they’ve done?” “Mmm,” said my wife, as she sipped a Dos Equis Amber in the basement. “Incredible.” “You don’t even know what they’ve done, do you?” I said. “I know it makes you happy,” she said. Oh, it did. It made me very happy. We were going to win it all, and the road to glory began Wednesday night in Chicago, New York, or Philadelphia. That was my night at the yoga studio. I really need to find someone to take my shift.✶

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Sex and the Biddy BY amy alkon I’m an attractive, 42-year-old single mom with a 13-year-old son. I’ve been widowed for three years, and I’m finally ready to date. I’ve found myself increasingly attracted to this man (actually, I’m yearning to jump his bones), but he’s only 32. I sense the attraction may be mutual. The problem is, I’m the queen of mixed signals. If a good-looking guy checks me out in the grocery store, I scurry to another aisle and kick myself later. After this guy went out of his way to call to say he wished our conversation hadn’t been interrupted at a party the night before, I told him, “I’m just needy; I’ll talk to anyone who’ll listen.” Please don’t tell me to find a man my age. They don’t give me the time of day – except for the ones who creep me out. What can I say or do to let this man know I’m

Week of Oct.2

You’re right to worry about coming off as a desperate older woman. You probably do sound desperate – desperate to get rid of the guy: “I’m just needy; I’ll talk to anyone who’ll listen.” Should he call back, maybe add, “You’ll do, since the suicide hotline guys started hanging up on me when they realized I don’t want to kill myself, just bore them to death.” Your signals to the guy might be mixed, but they’re coming through loud and clear to me: You want a relationship; you’re just too terrified to have one. You’re probably scared of both success and failure: What if Stud Boy likes you? What if he likes you, then leaves you?! And you’re sure the grocery store guy, upon closer appraisal, will realize he’s made a

terrible mistake, so you scurry away like a bug after the lights come on: “Yes, yes, I look like a woman, but I’m really a giant cockroach wearing a lot of Better Separates.” There’s something in you that doesn’t think all that highly of you – the part that suspects this guy’ll see you as some ridiculous old bag. Wowee, a whole 10-year age difference. (Any excuse’ll do!) The truth is, some guys go for older women, often because they’re drawn to their self-assurance and sexual confidence. After all, they can get insecure and self-defeating from a hot 20-year-old with breasts that haven’t lost all their elastic. Your problem is thinking you determine your hotitude by polling a bunch of other people, not simply by deciding you have hotitude and seeing who notices. (It’s called “selfesteem,” not “what other people think of me esteem.”) You can’t just run to the corner

and pick up a little self-acceptance, but you can start working toward it, starting by reading about it in Albert Ellis’s A Guide to Rational Living. In the meantime, fake it: Act the part and maybe the part will become part of you. Train by watching some of those hotolder-women-getting-it-on movies (the ones with Susan Sarandon and Rene Russo, not Susie Funbags and Renee Threeway). When you do meet a guy who creeps you out, your old insecurespeak should come in handy. Nothing usually makes a man on the make want to bolt like the words “I’m needy,” except maybe for the announcement “I’m off my meds, I’ve got a loaded gun in my purse, and what a cool coincidence that the back of your shirt looks so much like a bull’s-eye.”✶ (c)2008, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. AdviceAmy@aol.com. (www.advicegoddess.com).

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

In her book Courtney Love: The Queen of Noise, Melissa Rossi reports that in the mid-1990s “Courtney surrounded herself with a coterie of soothsayers, even approaching hipster stargazer Rob Brezsny, who declined to provide his astrological services.” Rossi doesn’t explain why I declined, but I’ll tell you. Courtney wasn’t interested in the kind of information I specialize in. She pressed me to tell her whether her romantic future should be with Trent or Billy, and I urged her to talk about the changes she could make in herself and her life to get clear about what she wanted. She implored me to predict her future, and I prodded her to formulate intelligent questions that would help her create a beautiful and interesting future for herself. I bring this up, Aries, because in the coming weeks I hope you will do what I suggested she try back then.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus actor Pierce Brosnan told Parade magazine how shocking it was to get fired after playing the role of James Bond for four films. But after the initial pain he felt from being rejected, he eventually got to the point where he could say, “I’m free now. I can do anything I want.” What helped him recover was conjuring up the proper attitude. “You’ve got to be a fighting rooster,” he said. That’s half of my prescription for you in the coming week, Taurus. Be a charismatic warrior as you push to further your highest ideals and brightest desires. Be a stylishly fierce liberator in charge of designing your own freedom. Be a fighting rooster with the heart of an artist. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you believe in higher love at first sight? How about instant enlightenment? And what about higher love at first sight that brings instant enlightenment, or instant enlightenment that provokes higher love at first sight? These are themes I suspect you’ll soon be flirting with, Gemini. In order to get all of the blessings from the lessons they’ll offer, you must dispense with your preconceived notions about what they might entail. You’ve got to wash your own brain so it’s nice and clean and empty of expectations. CANCER (June 21-July 22):

interested without coming off as a desperate older woman? –Own Worst Enemy

Your creed for the last three months of 2008 comes from Nikos Kazantzakis: “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Memorize this meme, Cancerian. Imprint it on your subconscious mind. Make it so much a part of you that it breathes as you breathe, and dreams as you dream. Allow it to turn you into a magician whose potent desire is as strong as the longings of ten normal people put together.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Gleeking is a term that refers to a special kind of projectile spitting. To do it, you’ve got to practice. It involves pressing your tongue against your submaxillary salivary gland when a pool of drool has accumulated nearby. I recommend this practice for you in the coming week, Leo. It’ll be a favorable time for you to be undignified, unpredictable, and even outrageous in expressing yourself. Other suggested practices: telling unruly stories concisely, speaking the truth with picturesque but disciplined extravagance, adding some vivid new slang to your body language, and skipping and hopping or even dancing as you walk. (For instructions on how to gleek, go to tinyurl.com/hn7vo.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Talk back to those annoying voices in your head, Virgo -- I mean those nagging little chatterers who are second-guessing you ten times a day, who are trying to undermine your faith in what you started in recent weeks. And as you respond to their agitation, do so with poise and grace -- not with defensiveness, not with bitter complaint, but with a quietly aggressive confidence that the lucid intuitions you relied on to launch your new projects were basically sound. The annoying little voices are trying to convince you that you should go back to square one, when in fact you’re on the right track but merely need to do some tinkering.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

“New ideas show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions, and embarrassing dilemmas,” says motivational speaker Rob Lebow. “Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future.” That excellent advice is my birthday present to you, Libra. If you make use of

it during the next three weeks, I bet you’ll consistently be in the right place at the right time to extract the maximum benefit from your blind dates with destiny. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Robert Downey Jr. is grateful to Burger King for serving him such gross food. After eating a particularly foul meal there in 2003, he told Empire magazine, he was so disgusted that he drove to the beach and hurled all of his drugs into the sea. It was the shock he needed to begin the process of kicking his addiction. In that spirit, Scorpio, I suggest you seek out a similar epiphany -- whether that involves an encounter with greasy, fried cow meat or some other phenomenon that triggers your urge to rise up and purify yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s a seller’s market for you, Sagittarius. If I were you, I wouldn’t buy a bunch of new stuff or invest in unripe possibilities. Rather, I’d cash in on the hard work I’ve been doing for many months now. I’d quit while I was ahead. I’d liquefy assets that might soon decline in their value to me but that are still at the height of their value to other people. In order for you to summon the brisk confidence necessary to pull this off, you’ll have to resist greedy temptations to hold on to everything a little while longer. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Most American companies don’t pay any federal income tax. During a recent seven-year period, 1.3 million businesses earned well over a trillion dollars but didn’t pony up a penny to the U.S. government. I mention this, Capricorn, because it’s now a favorable time, astrologically speaking, for you to seek comparable perks. Look into this, please: Maybe you don’t have to keep having your assets drained in ways you’ve always assumed were inevitable. I’m talking metaphorically as well as literally; I’m referring to emotional and psychic energy as well as actual money. Are there any legal and ethical loopholes you can exploit to free yourself from long-running burdens? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Once upon a time, Brave Aquarius wandered out to the edge of the known universe in search of mind-blowing sensations and foreign titillations and clues to the future. So imagine Brave Aquarius’s amazement when the rather

LACITYBEAT 20 OCTOBER 2-8, 2008

By Rob Brezsny

attractive ogre who was guarding the rope bridge that crossed over the abyss said, “Stop! You’re headed the wrong way! The mind-blowing sensations and foreign titillations and clues to the future you crave are back in the direction you came from. In fact, they are all the way back where you started.” What to do? The ogre’s advice was counter-intuitive and downright confounding. But Brave Aquarius, being foremost an experimental adventurer, thought, “Hmmm. I guess maybe I’ll try what the ogre suggested. What could be more experimental and adventurous than changing my mind?” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Blessings will come if you cultivate as much stillness as possible. I’m not just talking about reducing the noise levels, although that’s a good first step. Other things you might want to do: Cut way down on your use of the phone; text-message sparingly; surf the Internet 70 percent less than usual; avoid watching TV news altogether; and don’t hang around people whose minds zip around like chimps on meth. As for your own monkey mind: See if you can enjoy some periods each day when the monkey gets to lie down in a soft place and watch the wide sky roll by.

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THURSDAY 2 IN WHAT RESPECT, GWEN? Ladies and gentlemen, here is what you’ve been waiting for: The Palin/Biden Main Event! Gwen Ifill does the honors as moderator in St. Louis, in what’s sure to be 90 minutes of tongue-bathfrom-heaven. Will Grampa Joe unleash his inner wolf, trying to “destroy” Sarah Palin? If he does, will Palin shoot him with a gun? Will Sen. Biden, as he did with Alberto Gonzalez, slip and call Gov. Palin “babe”? Will Palin be able to pronounce her own name? Answer these and other questions at the CityBeat debate-watching party in an incongruously beautiful ballroom off the CityBeat staff’s favorite sports bar, Busby’s. There is beer, and cocktails, and delicious fried, fatty foods! There is not Bingo cards, because we are too lazy. Debate at 6 p.m. (get there early!). Free! Busby’s, 5364 Wilshire Blvd., Miracle Mile, (323) 525-2615. (Rebecca Schoenkopf)

FRIDAY 3 MAN IN BLACK The shadow of Johnny Cash has lengthened considerably in the past few years. From his earliest sides for Sun to his final, age-seamed albums, Cash told of the outsized passions of ordinary people with the voice of a wise, compassionate Grim Reaper. The world seems a trifle shrunken since his passing five years ago last month and many have paid him tribute since, including the makers of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, holding its West Coast premiere tonight at the Hammer Museum. This documentary uses archival footage, animation and interviews to tell the story of the making of At Folsom Prison, Cash’s epochal live album recorded early in 1968. Post-screening Q & A with filmmaker Bestor Cram. 7 p.m. Free. The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., (310) 443-7000. hammer.ucla.com. (Ron Garmon)

SATURDAY 4 REALITY ASKEW Malibu hosts an aesthetic Final Frontier at The Museum of Hyperreal Art. MoHA’s second annual art exhibition, aptly titled Not Seen and/ or Less Seen, where artists Launa Bacon, Tiffany Trenda, and Lisa Wiscombe showcase works with a Dadaist theme, with Trenda tending toward the mechanistic while Bacon conjures bleak architectures suggesting a union between gothic and neoclassic and Wiscombe’s sculptures reconfigure household banalities according to “impressions drawn from the mind’s private corners.” This will mark the closing of this year’s exhibition. 6 p.m. 18042 Coastline Dr., Malibu, (310) 880-7330. hyperrealart.com. (Nathan Solis)

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MxPx and a fuckton of other bands. Well, it must be a whole new world, because this is what’s going to happen from Oct. 1-5 at the Music Box at The Henry Fonda Theatre! Bands rotate throughout the week as opening acts and each night promises to end with punk so pure that you could snort or inject it. It’s been five years since Rancid released an album, so maybe these Berkeley natives will give us Angelenos a sample. 7 p.m. $23. 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 464-0808. henryfondatheater.com. (NS)

MONDAY 6 BIG BAD JOHN Beady-eyed and seamed-of-face, John Huston was called “maverick” more times than John McCain and Tom Cruise put together, but, in this writer-actordirector’s case, the accolade was well-earned. He played both bane and hole-card to the old studio system, making more good movies than any other hyphenate auteur of his (long) era. Tonight, The Aero screens The Misfits (1961), the iconic last film of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, which also features a touching, well-loved performance by broken Montgomery Clift. Paired with the director’s infrequently screened Moulin Rouge (1952), a pet project with witty Jose Ferrer as Toulouse-Lautrec eying (wait for it) Zsa-Zsa Gabor as a dancer who sends him down Absinthe River. Quelle bummer. 7:30 p.m. $10. 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica,(323) 466- 3456. americancinematheque.com/aero. (RG)

TUESDAY 7 BRING ON THE DEBATE Presidential candidates, plus half-price booze, equals a humane way to enjoy (or endure) a political debate. It’s time to pick a side; why not do it with other intrigued voters at … wait, can you guess it? That’s right! Busby’s! Sit back and enjoy the Second Presidential Debate on a giant screen with CityBeat. Oh, and there’s cheap eats and $3 well drinks and a giant-sized Obama and that old guy dishing it out about how they’ll fix the horrible economy, lower gas prices, and supposedly help poor people. Debate at 6 p.m. (get there early!) Free! Busby’s, 5364 Wilshire Blvd., Miracle Mile, (323) 525-2615. (Porsche Simpson)

WEDNESDAY 8 NO ORDINARY MAN, AFTER ALL If you, like any other sensible girl, have a big crush on Ira Glass, then you’ll be glad to hear Peabody Award winning journalist and radio personality Joe Frank – the man who introduced Ira to national radio – will be doing the second of two performances of his live show, I’m Just an Ordinary Man, at Largo tonight. Frank’s dark and absurdist tales are well-known to KCRW fans, and he’s been telling them collaboratively and solo for over two decades. His shows have been known to sell out, so it is wise to order tickets early. 8:30 p.m. $30. Largo at the Coronet, 366 N. La Cienega Blvd, L.A., (323) 852-1073. www.largo-la.com. (Gabrielle Paluch)

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f the most commonly cited public opinion polls are correct, Americans feel more comfortable voting for a woman, a Jew, a black person (fingers crossed, at the moment), a Catholic, or a Mormon than for an atheist. Hell, Americans would rather vote for a homosexual than an atheist. (What’s the world coming to?) (And, by the way: BARNEY FRANK FOR PRESIDENT!) Hey, there, all you Republican closet cases! Time to come on out! Just keep the faith when you do! In the new documentary Religulous, comedian Bill Maher takes stands against religion and against the very notion of faith (as the word is generally used these days) some of the time; and against the intermingling of religion and public policy all of the time. It’s not a minor distinction: There are many millions of believers in the U.S. who are as resolute about the separation of church and state as the most devout – does that word apply here? – atheists. Hell, lots of them thrive even in a godless sinner’s paradise like Los Angeles. Early in the film Maher tells us that he was initially raised Catholic and didn’t find out until adolescence that his mother was Jewish – a set of circumstances that certainly affected his comedy. (In an old standup excerpt, he talks about “being half Catholic and half Jewish and bringing a lawyer into confession: Bless me father for I have sinned – and I think you know Mr. Cohen ... .”) For the film, Maher travels around the U.S. and to Israel and Europe to interview believers (and former believers) of all faiths. Well, not exactly all: His interviews cover

only the subscribers to Abrahamic religions – Catholics, Evangelicals, other Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and Mormons. Nothing about Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Taoism, and the rest. There are swipes at Scientology, but mostly for the sake of ridiculing Mormonism. (Speaking of which: Is there anything more gobsmacking than hearing devout Catholics making fun of Mormons for embracing such nonsense as Joseph Smith’s miraculously changing golden plates? As opposed to such sensible down-toearth phenomena as the Virgin Birth and transubstantiation?) He talks to Islamic scholars, rabbis of various stripes, Christian ex-Jews, Southern evangelicals (at the Truckers Chapel in North Carolina), creationist U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (“Hey, you don’t have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate,” Pryor tells him), and even his Jewish mother, who proves herself a pretty sharp old babe. We meet Pastor Jeremiah Cummings, who was known as Jerry Cummings back when he was in Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes; Ferre van Beveren of Cannabis Ministry in the Netherlands; Dr. Francis Collins, who is a devout Christian, yet also the scientist in charge of the Human Genome project; and Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, of Miami’s Growing in Grace Ministry, who confidently and unironically proclaims himself to be the second coming of Christ. Maher verbally spars with the actor portraying Jesus at Orlando’s Holy Land Experience, while other park employees nervously huddle to figure out how to handle this intrusion of apostasy. He introduces one man as a “former

homosexual,” who now works helping “cure” others. “I’m not a homosexual,” the man tells us. “I’m a heterosexual man who dealt with homosexuality. I don’t believe people are born homosexual.” (“Have you ever met Little Richard?” Maher responds skeptically.) He talks to the Muslim owners of a gay bar in Amsterdam. It’s easy to imagine many viewers – certainly many of the targets – seeing Maher as a smirking wisenheimer. And, while he tries not to look snarky, his comic impulse sometimes overwhelms him. Maher is not alone: For many of us, it makes about as much sense to take the Bible (or any of the other religions’ texts) as absolute truth as it does to regard The Lord of the Rings (or Gulliver’s Travels or The Story of O) as Holy Writ. The Bible’s exceptional status is more an accident of history than a proof of divine origin. And thinking God is actually speaking to you is, well, a little bonkers, whether you’re Moses or Joan of Arc or the guy on his knees praying, right down the street. The problem for us scoffers is: We all know a lot of people who do believe those things and who seem to be – in every other aspect of their lives – neither psychotics nor drooling imbeciles. On the one hand, we want to make them see the folly of their beliefs; on the other hand, it’s almost always a futile process, an offense to the other party, and hence downright rude. Maher may have been willing at some stage to gently mock without making a militant stand of his disbelief. But, in the first and last scenes of Religulous, he explains why he thinks

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atheists shouldn’t be meek and polite about the foolishness of blind faith anymore. And, metaphorically speaking, the reason is – though Maher couldn’t have known it while making the movie – Sarah Palin ... Moose-Hunting Mom ... Wicked Wolfkiller of Wasilla ... FieldDressing Fascist from the Frozen North. Maher wraps things up by zeroing in on a particular, ever-growing corner of Christianity, the evangelicals who welcome the coming of the End Times, as supposedly forecast in Revelation ... you know, with the final battle at Armageddon, which just happens to be located in the Middle East. This particular group – seen as loonies by many other Christians – has had disproportionate influence on the Bush administration without quite driving us into a self-fulfilling final war. The rise of Sarah Palin is the scariest development on this front to date. Palin accepts some of this apocalyptic gibberish or, at the very least, has paid lip service to it. If, through some fluke (or through rigged voting machines and suppressed minority turnout), McCain wins the upcoming election, the actuarial odds are pretty high that, within the next decade, Palin could be calling the shots (and I do mean shots). If Maher considered the situation urgent while he was shooting Religulous, he must consider it doubly so now. V Religulous. Directed by Larry Charles. With Bill Maher and the faithful. Opens Friday citywide.

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more red/brown; the burnished hues strike me as closer to the projected version, but, again, memories of most visual qualities that can be measured on a sliding scale are hugely unreliable. As expected, the final film in the trilogy, dating from 1990, hasn’t required as much work. Of course, it’s also handily the worst of the three; not even its biggest fans would count it as better than either of its predecessors. There were some casting and production problems that contributed to this; but the main issue was the sense that it was at best an unnecessary, financially motivated return to a story that had been complete and “perfect” in 1974, with the release of Godfather II. While there are aspects of Godfather III that I like, I think its existence does more harm than good to the overall story. The new set includes all the extras from the earlier releases, which means that, for once, doubledippers can safely sell off their old discs. Coppola’s provocative and informative commentary tracks are available on each of the first three discs. The fourth DVD has the rest of the old extras, including an hourand-a-half making-of documentary and 35 deleted scenes (many of which were used in the chronological TV version, The Godfather Saga). A fifth DVD adds more, including retrospective interviews, an explanation of the restoration process, and a look at the films’ long-term influence, including referential clips from The Simpsons and South Park. In the Blu-ray set, the extras are all together on one disc, with – huzzah! – all the new stuff presented in high definition, contrary to the usual practice. V

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hen Paramount released its first DVD set of the Godfather trilogy, back in 2001, I wasn’t the only one who found it wanting. Yeah, there were some nice extras, but the studio clearly hadn’t spent a lot of time dealing with image quality. Another set was released in late 2005 without much improvement. For those who regard the first two entries of Francis Coppola’s masterpiece among the greatest of all American films – and polls usually show them up there with Citizen Kane – Paramount’s DVDs were acceptable ... but not much more. So it’s with a big hurrah that I greet the new restored version. Robert A. Harris – perhaps the most respected supervisor of classic DVDs, with Lawrence of Arabia, Rear Window, and Vertigo among his credits – has overseen the restoration; despite Coppola’s name in the title and his obvious approval, it appears that cinematographer Gordon Willis had more direct input into Harris’s work. The set is available on either 5 DVDs or 4 Blu-ray Discs. While the latter, hi-res set is almost double the list price of the DVDs, a fluke at Amazon currently has it a dollar cheaper. I have only looked at the Blu-ray incarnation, and unsurprisingly the image looks better. In the first film, there is often a gritty, grainy look: It’s the sort of “flaw” that disturbs videophiles who don’t actually know or care about movies, since it is, in fact, how the movie was shot to look and how it looked (as best as anyone can remember) in the 1972 theatrical release. There are noticeable changes, however. Willis and Harris have chosen to make some scenes brighter; given how dark the film is in general, this may be a legitimate concession to the difference between home and theatrical viewing conditions. The color balance feels different from the earlier video versions, with

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LATEST REVIEWS ALLAH MADE ME FUNNY So these three guys walk into a comedy club – a Palestinian, an Indian, and a black Muslim... . And they call themselves the Allah Made Me Funny Tour, and their tour has been shot and edited into a feature by director Andrea Kalin. The show leads off with Mo (for Mohammed) Amer, a Palestinian-American raised in Houston, Texas (where, incidentally, they dance as good as they walk). The funnier two-thirds of his shtick involves either being raised in a Muslim family or dealing with his ethnicity in America; when he gets to generic “let me tell ya about my wife” material, he sounds like an inferior Ralph Kramden. Azhar Usman, a gigantic, longhaired, bearded Indian-American, amusingly describes the problems of getting on a plane when you look like him. And Preacher Moss tells us about his parents’ reaction to his conversion – no more drinking, no more chasing after women, just congregating with his male friends ... must be gay. Each comic gets about 20-25 minutes onstage. In between the solid blocks of standup, Kalin shows brief documentary footage of the men on the road and visiting their parents, much like in Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show. The audience cutaways are sometimes awkward, overly tight closeups interspersed with crowd shots driving home the eclectic multicultural background of the crowd – young women in blue jeans and burqas yokking it up equally with white-bread middle Americans. The whole thing is like an HBO comedy special – Allah made these guys pretty funny – and it’s hard to see why it’s getting theatrical release. (Andy Klein) (Laemmle’s Sunset 5)

BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA George Lopez, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez, Placido Domingo, Luis Guzman, and Edward James Olmos – all from Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, or California, with the exception of Sinaloa-born Rodriguez – lend their voices to director Raja Gosnell’s innocuous, inoffensive, insipid live-action kids’ flick that knows nada about Mexico or Beverly Hills, except that in one people like dog fights, and in the other they prefer doggie spas. A childless millionaire (Jamie Lee Curtis) dotes on her Chihuahua, Chloe (voiced nasally by Drew Barrymore). After she leaves spoiled niece Rachel (Piper Perabo) in charge of Chloe for a week, the two brats have a bitch-off that leaves Chloe storming out of their holiday rental in Baja, where she’s immediately dognapped by underground villain Vasquez (Jose Maria Yazpik) and made to brawl with a Doberman named Diablo (Olmos). Of course, just like Natalee Holloway, the disappearance of a white female dog in a foreign land becomes a cause celebre: Rachel, with the gardener (Manolo Cardona) and his four-legged friend Papi (Lopez), city-hop south of the border in a wildly improbable hunt to find a Chihuahua in a haystack. If all goes poorly with the elections in November, five years down the line, this flick as well as every reality show on MTV will seem as outmoded and incendiar y as Marie Antoinette’s cakes. (Amy Nicholson) (Citywide)

BLINDNESS At an unremarkable intersection in an anonymous city in an unidentified country, the stoplight turns green, but one car doesn’t move. The man (Yusuke Iseya) flailing inside has suddenly gone blind, the world enveloped in a milky white fog. An opportunist offers to drive him home, but soon the thief (screenwriter Don McKellar), too, goes blind. As does the first blind man’s wife (Yoshino Kimura). And his doctor (Mark Ruffalo). And a man with a black eye patch (Danny Glover), a woman with dark glasses (Alice Braga), and a boy with a squint (Mitchell Nye), all of whom happen to be in the eye doctor’s office with him. Only the doctor’s wife (Julianne Moore) is

immune to the white sickness. Only she can see civilization’s descent into chaos, where it wallows in its own piss and shit. Under the stylish direction of Fernando Mereilles (City of God), few false notes mar this powerful parable based on Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago’s 1995 novel about the politics of natural disasters and our metaphoric inability to see. Although viewers witness what almost everyone in the film cannot, Mereilles and his crew use reflective surfaces, layers of image, and multiple frames to put us voyeurs visually on edge. In a close adaptation of the source material, what few alterations McKellar has made only heighten the human drama. (Annlee Ellingson) (Citywide)

BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY If you’re wondering how a country dealing with two separate half-decade-long wars and an economy teetering on the edge of total collapse could, a couple of weeks ago, find coverage of its impending election hijacked for two-plus days by talk about lipstick on a pig, you’ll find unnerving answers in this engrossing, timely, clear-eyed documentary about the late Lee Atwater, the godfather of modern political dirty tricks. A silvertongued rogue known for his affinity for blues music as well as cutthroat, win-at-all-costs maneuvering, Atwater, more than any single politician, pioneered the art of hard-knuckle campaigning, gleefully turning elections into a series of empty tabloid moments and coded-language entreaties (e.g., Willie Horton) even as his personal charm largely anesthetized people to his tactics. Director Stefan Forbes wisely eschews narration, instead intercutting archival footage and perspicacious interviews with friends, journalists, and party wonks of all political persuasions. The resulting portrait is pulse-quickening, wry, and frequently upsetting, but never less than unswervingly fair-minded, letting viewers sort out the many contradictions surrounding this small town South Carolina boy turned kingmaker. One thing, though, is certain. Despite being felled by a brain tumor at 40 years old – and allegedly renouncing many of his incendiary methods in his last days – the long shadow of Atwater’s influence can be seen in the uninterrupted chain of Republican string-pullers: Atwater, who got Bush 41 elected and described the current president as his “number one soulmate,” mentored Karl Rove, who in turn mentored current McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt. (Brent Simon) (Laemmle’s Sunset 5)

FLASH OF GENIUS As Ralph Nader learned, it’s tough to make car-safety stimulating. Consider engineering professor and basement inventor Bob Kearns, who, after being blinded in his left eye in a honeymoon champagne cork fiasco, was inspired to invent the intermittent windshield wiper. Played here by Greg Kinnear – today’s go-to actor for men in cheap suits – Kearns was a dreamer who became a kicked dog. When he smiles during the early scenes of Marc Abraham’s biopic, we’re already dreading what we know will come next: His idea is stolen by Ford and Chrysler, his patents are trashed, and his quest to get the big guys to acknowledge his brilliance costs him his family, job, 26 years, and 10 million in legal fees (even though he represented himself). Philip Railsback’s script, based on a New Yorker article by John Seabrook, follows the formula – we can guess every plot point, but are left guessing about Kearns himself, who, as the years drag on, progresses from motivational to monomaniacal. When wife Phyllis (Lauren Graham) leaves, taking their brood of six, the truth of Kearns’s life registers as little more than a narrative obligation. Still, corporate conspiracists (myself included) have a high tolerance for films that take potshots at The Man, even if like this, it’s less a sock to the jaw than a fumbled graze. (Amy Nicholson) (Citywide)

THE HOUSE OF ADAM In writer-director Jorge Ameer’s maladroit gay romantic thriller,

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young Adam (Jared Caldwell) is an innocent queer boy, who works in the small town diner belonging to gruff but fatherly Albert (Thomas Michael Kappler). Suspecting Adam of pilfering cash from the register, Albert hires his son Anthony (John Shaw) to keep an eye on the diner. In spite of the fact that Anthony is engaged to be married, he and Adam commence what is likely to be one of the cinema’s least convincing and charismatic romances, which abruptly terminates (though not soon enough) when a trio of Bible-thumpers beat up Adam and chop off his head. Not to worry, though: While Anthony suffers a nervous breakdown, Adam “comes back,” haunting the happily married couple who move into his blood-spattered house. It’s rare to find a film as poorly made as this one, which shoots the moon in terms of sheer awfulness: The acting is painfully stiff, the script consists of stilted drivel of the sort that six-year-olds write on Valentine’s Day cards, and Caldwell and Shaw have all the chemistry together of an income tax auditor and his hapless subject. A few of the scenes – such as an unintentionally hilarious sequence in which the new homeowner thinks his wife is giving him fellatio and the suckee actually turns out to the ghostly blood-vomiting Adam – suggest the film is intended as camp, but the majority of the work takes itself far too seriously to be much fun. (Paul Birchall) (Laemmle’s Sunset 5)

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE London journalist Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) fancies himself an unfettered taboo-breaker, poking holes in the puffed-up celebrity culture. But when he moves to New York for a job at Sharp’s – a thinly veiled Vanity Fair, where Toby Young, author of the source material, worked – he is low man on the totem pole, assigned by once-crusading editor Clay Harding (Jeff Bridges) to work under slimy Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston), whose career is skyrocketing, thanks to being the owner’s sonin-law. Sidney comes on to fellow lowly worker Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), who initially spurns him because – she realizes as quickly as we do – Sidney is, in fact, a complete asshole. Tactless, self-important, inept, and rude, Sidney eventually has to choose between success and his journalistic integrity. Therein lies the central problem: For the first half of the film, Pegg and director Robert Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm and the screenplay for Mother Night) make Sidney so loathsome that it’s hard not to share the contempt most of the other characters feel for him. By the end, Pegg has made Sidney more sympathetic ... by having him turn into someone we see no trace of earlier on. Despite this, the film is slickly constructed and frequently funny. (Sidney dismissively describes Lawrence as “the man with hidden shallows.”) In addition to Pegg, Dunst, Bridges, and Huston, the cast includes Bill Paterson, Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson, and Miriam Margolyes; the whole gang turns in letter-perfect work, with Paterson being a bit better than perfect. (Andy Klein) (Citywide)

MENTOR Director David Carl Lang’s melancholy drama tells the story of aspiring young author Carter (Matthew Davis), who, as a grad student, finds himself taken under the proverbial wing of Sanford Pollard (Rutger Hauer), a J.D. Salinger-like author of Great Books, with an enfant terrible reputation to boot. Pollard teaches an exclusive writing seminar, during which he delights in ripping apart the works of his students. During his off hours, the great author is boning his grad assistant, sexy, brilliant editor-in-training Julia (Dagmara Dominczyk). As Carter grows increasingly close to Pollard, Julia’s interest in the handsome grad student increases – right up until their awkward love triangle leads to unexpected tragedy. Lang’s intimate, psychologically nuanced drama starts out powerfully, with the depiction of the tense, mutually needy relationship between Carter and Pollard being fraught and engaging. Even as Carter requires a worldly father figure whose genius can inspire him, Pollard would clearly trade all he has for the younger man’s youth and energy. But, midway through,

writer William Whitehurst’s stagy screenplay devolves into inert romance and clumsy, soapy melodrama, with a tepid finale, unintentionally suggesting that the true role of genius is to get out of the way and leave the car to the young and pretty. Hauer’s scenery-chewing, Peter O’Toole-esque performance as the great author is so boisterous, it essentially blows the other two actors off the screen whenever they strive to get within 20 feet of him, making their romance together seem pallid and lacking in chemistry. (Paul Birchall) (Laemmle’s Grande 4)

NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST Peter Sollett’s indie teen romance may star geek crush Michael Cera, but it’s the anti-Juno. Cera plays band member Nick, who is still crushing hard on his ex, Tris (Alexis Dziena), when his desperate mix CDs make their way from the trashcan to Norah (Kat Dennings). Lorene Scafaria’s screenplay, based on the novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, fancies itself a romcom for the MySpace generation, with would-be lovers knowing each other’s top ten bands before the first date. But Nick and Norah share none of the bright chemistry or enjoyment for life of their namesakes – William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man. They’re New Jersey groupies posturing as Manhattan brats, and the night they meet cute, they spend searching for a secret show starring their, like, totally favorite band, Where’s Fluffy. Music is the only thing they care about; Norah is the type of fictitious slacker we’ve seen a lot of lately: smart enough to get into Brown, but too lethargic to bother going. There’s no snap and snark, only the inarticulate disdain of self-conscious high schoolers – it’s a love story where the way to the heart isn’t through the mind but the iPod. It works best when capturing the feel of being young, restless, and drowning in options. But Sollett’s invested in ephemera, not people – never more so than when the couple gets busy in a recording studio and the camera chooses to pivot and pan sensuously across the synthesizer. (Amy Nicholson) (Citywide)

OBSCENE It might be hard for under-40s (or even under-50s) to believe, but, despite the guarantees of the First Amendment, government censorship actually existed in the U.S. until the 1960s. We’re not talking about de facto censorship, but the real thing: local law enforcement – or even federal authorities – confiscating books and hauling the bookstore owners off to jail. This symptom of America’s embarrassingly provincial attitude was finally cured through uphill court battles instigated by Barney Rosset, legendary founder of the Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O’Connor’s documentary is a justified tribute to Rosset, who in his mid-80s is still feisty, with a refreshingly lighthearted attitude toward all he accomplished. They speak to John Waters, Ray Manzarek, Ed Sanders, Jim Carroll, and Julius Lester, who describe the impact Rosset had in breaking down the repressive conformism that characterized the postwar period. They also have gathered audio and video footage, documenting Rosset’s career, as he championed Samuel Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, and, most of all, Henry Miller. I was a precociously (maybe pretentiously) intellectual adolescent at the time, and Obscene took me back to those days when Rosset’s publications were among the most important cultural influences. (Andy Klein) (Laemmle’s Sunset 5)

RACHEL GETTING MARRIED Recovering addict/alcoholic Kym (Anne Hathaway) goes straight from rehab to her family home, where older sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is only a day away from marrying Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe). Her arrival is not necessarily a joyous event, as she immediately gets into conflicts with Rachel’s best friend (Anisa George) and then Rachel herself. Dad (Bill Irwin) endlessly and ineffectually tries to smooth over all the problems, but the reassembling of the family inevitably dredges

MUSIC COSTUME DENNINGS ALEXIS DZIENA ARI PRODUCED GRAYNOR AARON YOO AND JAY BARUCHEL SUPERVISOR LINDA COHEN MUSICBY MARK MOTHERSBAUGH DESIGNER SANDRA HERNANDEZ ON KAHANE ADAM BRIGHTMAN BY KERRY KOHANSKY CHRIS WEITZ PAUL WEITZ ANDREW MIANO THE BASED NOVEL BY RACHEL COHN & DAVID LEVITHAN

“one of the funniest and most offensive documentaries ever made.” Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST

“hellishly hilarious!” Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

“hallelujah! bill maher has

turned religion on its ear. witty, irreverent and hilarious!” Bill Diehl, ABC NEWS RADIO

“funny as…well, hell. A blasphemous

detonation of all things holy and scriptural.” Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

bill maher

from larry charles the director of “borat”

SOME LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL MATERIAL.

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ANNE ROSEMARIE BILL BILL TUNDE ANNE ROSEMARIE TUNDE MATHER ANNA DEAVERE HATHAWAY DeWITT ADEBIMPE ZICKEL HATHAWAY DeWITT IRWIN ADEBIMPE SMITH

AND AND

DEBRA WINGER

“‘RACHEL GETTING MARRIED’ HOLDS YOU SPELLBOUND!

BRIMMING WITH STINGING LAUGHS AND TEARS, AND SWIRLING HEALING MUSIC. JONATHAN DEMME DIRECTS HIS BEST FILM IN YEARS. A FUNNY, TOUCHING, VITAL SCRIPT BY JENNY LUMET. ANNE HATHAWAY DELIVERS AN ACTING TOUR DE FORCE. DEBRA WINGER, MAGNIFICENT, IS A VOLCANO OF REPRESSED ANGER. ROSEMARIE DeWITT IS SUPERB…AND A HEARTFELT BILL IRWIN. DEMME CALLS ‘RACHEL GETTING MARRIED’ A ‘HOME MOVIE’. A HOME RUN IS MORE LIKE IT. HANG ON FOR AN EMOTIONAL POWERHOUSE.” -Peter Travers

“A MOVIE THAT TINGLES WITH LIFE. DEMME’S BEST WORK SINCE ‘THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS’. HATHAWAY IS A REVELATION.” -Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“THE BEST AMERICAN MOVIE OF THE YEAR.” -David Poland, MOVIE CITY NEWS

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-Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER

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“ROUSING AND HEARTBREAKING.” -Dennis Dermody, PAPER MAGAZINE

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up the clan’s unhealable wound – a hideous tragedy from which no one has ever totally recovered. Working from a perceptive script by Jenny Lumet, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Caged Heat)

perfectly calibrates the gradual revealing of the family and its dynamics. Unfortunately, along the way, he also inexplicably lingers on activities – personal testimonies at twelve-step groups and endless toasts at the wedding banquet – that

are dull enough in real life, even if you know and love the participants, but are intolerably soporific on screen, among people you have no strong connection to. Hathaway is terrific; great clown Irwin is affecting in a very serious role; and Debra

Winger delivers in a brief appearance as Kym and Rachel’s frosty, estranged mother. The whole will drag you through a gamut of strong emotions, but being dragged isn’t necessarily the most enjoyable experience in the world. (Andy Klein) (Pacific’s ArcLight, The Landmark West Los Angeles, Pacific’s ArcLight Sherman Oaks, Laemmle’s Playhouse 7)

blend of poetic realism and a few dollops of magical realism makes for an alluring odyssey that fans of more recent Sino-cinema (which has far more in common with Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-Hsien than Zhang Yimou or Chen Kaige) should richly appreciate. (Wade Major) (Laemmle’s Music Hall 3)

THE VIOLENT KIND RELIGULOUS See Film feature.

STILL LIFE As the massive Seven Gorges Dam redevelopment project sweeps away soon-tobe-deluged villages and communities, two individuals search for spouses from whom they’ve been long separated. Sanming (Han Sanming) is a miner looking for the wife and daughter who left him 16 years ago. Shen Hong (Zhao Tao) seeks the husband who came to the region two years earlier in search of work. Precisely why the relationships broke up and why each now seeks some sort of rapprochement is revealed slowly and methodically in this typically meditative effor t from rising Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke. Like his previous work, particularly Platform and The World – both of which also featured Sanming in effectively the same part – Jia’s latest (which won the top prize at the 2006 Venice Film Festival) requires both patience and concentration. The two stories never arrive at any meaningful intersection and don’t really pan out in a conventionally satisfying way. But the

“SMART & ENTERTAINING...

If, as the press notes suggest, writer-director Gregory Pepos’s previous film (Some Body) got some attention at the Sundance Festival, then this film is likely to be a shoo-in for the “gibberish” film festival. Disjointed in the extreme, with sloppy, murky camera work, and swirling, pretentious editing that is not recommended for viewing by epileptics, Pepos’s thriller centers on grim-faced, intense Terry (Kirk Harris), who has just returned from Iraq, where he’s shell-shocked after three tours of duty. Terry’s psychological damage creates a bond between him and his dad George (John Savage), who remains shellshocked from his own years in Vietnam. For reasons that defy even the vauge parameters of movie logic, sexy beauty Jesika (Irina Bjorklund) has remained married to Terry and lives with him and George. Hoping to help Terry get over his Iraq flashbacks, the threesome repairs to George’s country farm in the woods near San Diego. This turns out not to be a brilliant idea, as young Terry’s craziness starts to get the better of him. Or, at least, that’s what the plot seems to be: In reality, Pepos’s film is

A NEW AMERICAN COMEDY FROM THE DIRECTOR OF “AIRPLANE!” AND “THE NAKED GUN”

IT WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING FROM START TO FINISH.” Pete Hammond, HOLLYWOOD.COM

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more of a kaleidoscopic concatenation of half-baked images, slapped together with an incomprehensible mortar. It’s hard to know whether we’re supposed to laugh or be awed by the endless scenes of George sealing himself off in his barn to play cards and of Jesika spending minutes at a time swabbing manure out of the farm’s stables. The director’s ambitions to craft a certain sort of glossy, superficially artful film ultimately gets in the way of the story – that is, if there’s a story mixed in the jumble in the first place. (Paul Birchall) (Laemmle’s Grande 4)

VIVRE SA VIE Jean-Luc Godard’s rather unsubtle 1962 social commentary (the title of which can be translated as either To Live Her Life or To Live One’s Life) doesn’t seem nearly as hard-hitting or technically daring today, particularly in the wake of “anything goes” reality television. But as historical artifact, the film retains some noteworthy flourishes and thematic indulgences. Starring the director’s then-wife and lady luck, Anna Karina, it details, in twelve distinct chapters, how a young Parisian narcissist manages to blow off her family in search of an acting career, only to end up a prostitute. The already jarring structure is compounded by too-cool-for-the-room staccato editing and Godard’s determination to include some sort of reference or homage to every zeitgeistal inspiration that pops out of his id. All of this makes the film uniquely Godard and particularly Nouvelle Vague – which is to say that just like many other Godard films ... it deserves to be both reviled and admired. (Wade Major) (Nuart)

ALSO OPENING THIS WEEK: An American Carol. Michael Malone (Kevin P. Farley), a sloppily dressed, baseball-cap-wearing, overweight left-wing documentarian crusades to abolish the 4th of July, until he’s confronted by the ghosts of George Washington, George S. Patton, and John F. Kennedy, who show him the error of his ways. Even the premise suggests that writer/director David Zucker is so blinded by his post-9/11 rightwing awakening that he can’t see Michael Moore clearly enough to make an appropriate satire of that rabble-rouser’s many faults. Of course, if it’s really funny, I’ll take that all back, since funny trumps lousy politics every time; if it’s not funny, the resulting critical reaction will be dismissed as more proof of Hollywood’s left-wing bias. (The film was withheld from critics.) Zucker, of course, was part of the trio that made Airplane! and spawned a whole branch of American film comedy, so my fingers are crossed. The cast includes Kelsey Grammer, Trace Adkins, Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Hopper, James Woods, Robert Davi, and Jon Voight. (AK) (Citywide)

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BURBANK AMC Burbank 16, 140 E Palm Av, (818) 953-9800. Appaloosa Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 2, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9, 11:30; Sun 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. Blindness Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5:05, 8, 11; Sun 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5:05, 8, 11:10; Mon-Thur 2, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30. Burn After Reading Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20. Eagle Eye Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05. Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 11:15; Sun 11:15 a.m., 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 11:10; Mon-Thur 2:15, 5:15, 8:15. Flash of Genius Fri-Sat 11:25 a.m., 2:20, 5:25, 8:20, 11:20; Sun 11:25 a.m., 2:20, 5:25, 8:20, 11:05; MonThur 1, 3:50, 7, 9:45. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Fri-Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50; Mon-Thur 1:25, 4:20, 6:55, 9:35. Igor Fri-Sun 11:35 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:20; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:20. Lakeview Terrace Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Mon-Thur 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50. Miracle at St. Anna Fri-Sun 11:45 a.m., 3:20, 7:10, 10:45; Mon-Thur 1:45, 5:10, 9. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., noon, 1:40, 2:25, 4:10, 6:40, 7:25, 9:10, 11:40; Sun 11:10 a.m., noon, 1:40, 2:25, 4:10, 6:40, 7:25, 9:10; Mon-Thur 1:40, 2:25, 4:10, 6:40, 7:25, 9:10. Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:25, 6:05, 8:40, 11:10; Sun 12:50, 3:25, 6:05, 8:40; Mon 3:25; Tue-

Thur 3:25, 6:05, 8:40. Religulous Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10, 10:55; MonThur 1:45, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40. Righteous Kill 4:50, 9:55. AMC Burbank Town Center 8, 210 E Magnolia Bl, (818) 953-9800. An American Carol Fri 12:05, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30; Sat-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 10:10. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; SatSun 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Mon-Thur 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. Choke Fri-Sun noon, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:25. The Dark Knight Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25; MonThur 3:05, 6:45, 10. Eagle Eye Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 10:45; Sun 11:45 a.m., 10:35; Mon-Thur 9:45. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 2:55, 5:30, 8:05; Mon-Thur 1:10, 4, 6:45. Righteous Kill Fri-Sat 11:55 a.m., 2:45, 5:35, 8, 10:40; Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:45, 5:35, 8; Mon-Thur 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:55. Tropic Thunder Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35; SatSun 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05. The Women Fri 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15; Sat-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55. AMC Burbank Town Center 6, 770 N First St, (818) 953-9800. An American Carol Fri 12:05, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30; Sat-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 10:10. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; SatSun 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Mon-Thur 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. Choke Fri-Sun noon, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:25. The Dark Knight Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25; MonThur 3:05, 6:45, 10. Eagle Eye Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 10:45; Sun 11:45 a.m., 10:35; Mon-Thur 9:45. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 2:55, 5:30, 8:05; Mon-Thur 1:10, 4, 6:45. Righteous Kill Fri-Sat 11:55 a.m., 2:45, 5:35, 8, 10:40; Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:45, 5:35, 8; Mon-Thur 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:55. Tropic Thunder Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35; SatSun 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05. The Women Fri 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15; Sat-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55.

Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:25, 11:50; Sun-Thur 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:25. Religulous Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10, 12:35 a.m.; Sun-Thur 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10. Righteous Kill Fri-Sat 9:25, 11:50; Sun-Thur 9:25. Spookley the Square Pumpkin Sun 10 a.m.; Tue 10 a.m.. Culver Plaza Theatre, 9919 Washington Blvd, (310) 836-5516. Dark Night Fri-Sun 12:10, 7:10, 10:10; MonThur 3:10, 8:05. Drona Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10; Mon-Thur 2:15, 5:15, 8:15. The Family That Preys Fri 12:40, 2:55, 9:45; Sat 2:55, 7:30; Sun 12:40, 2:55, 7:30; Mon-Thur 1:05, 8. Harold and Maude Wed only, 7:45. Kidnap Fri 1, 4, 7, 10; Sat 1, 4, 7, 10:10; Sun 1, 4, 7, 10; Mon-Tue 2, 5, 9; Wed 2, 5; Thur 2, 5, 9. Righteous Kill Fri-Sun 3, 5:05; Mon-Thur 1:10, 6:05. Tell No One Fri-Sun 2:30, 9:55; Mon-Thur 3:15, 8:10. Towelhead Fri-Sat 12:05, 5:05, 7:35; Sun 12:05, 5:10, 7:35; Mon-Thur 1, 5:45. Tropic Thunder Fri 5:15; Sat 12:40, 5:15; Sun 5:15, 9:45; Mon-Thur 3:25, 5:40. Vicky Cristina Barcelona Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:35, 8:35, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1:40, 3:50, 6:15, 8:35.

Loews Cineplex Marina Marketplace, 13455 Maxella Av, (310) 827-9588. Eagle Eye Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15; Sat-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15; Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10. Flash of Genius Fri 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 10; Sat-Sun 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10; Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55. Ghost Town Fri-Wed 1:55, 7:05. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Fri 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Sat-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05; Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05; MonWed 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:40. Nights in Rodanthe Fri 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Sat-Sun 11:25 a.m., 1:50, 4:15, 7, 9:30; Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Righteous Kill Fri 4:35, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:20 a.m., 4:35, 9:45; Mon-Wed 4:35, 9:45. Pacific Culver Stadium 12, 9500 Culver Bl, (310) 8557519. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:05, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:35, 4:20, 7, 9:20. Blindness Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:45; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55. Burn After Reading Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45,

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CULVER CITY, MARINA DEL REY The Bridge: Cinema De Lux & IMAX Theater, The Promenade at Howard Hughes Center, 6081 Center Dr, Westchester, (310) 568-3375. An American Carol Fri 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30, 12:20 a.m.; Sat 11 a.m., 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30, 12:20 a.m.; Sun 11 a.m., 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30. Appaloosa Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10, 12:35 a.m.; Sat 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10, 12:35 a.m.; Sun 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10. The Backyardigans: Samurai Pie Sat only, 10 a.m. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri 11:45 a.m., 1:45, 2:15, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 9:15, 9:45, 12:15 a.m.; Sat 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:45, 2:15, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 9:15, 9:45, 12:15 a.m.; Sun 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:45, 2:15, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 9:15, 9:45; Mon-Thur 11:45 a.m., 1:45, 2:15, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 9:15, 9:45. Blindness Fri 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45, 12:30 a.m.; Sat 10:30 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45, 12:30 a.m.; Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45. Burn After Reading 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:30. Choke Midnight Fri-Sat. Eagle Eye Fri-Sun noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10:15; Mon 12:30, 3, 5, 7:30, 10:15; Tue-Thur noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10:15. The Express Sat only, 7. The Family That Preys Fri 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25, 12:05 a.m.; Sat 10:45 a.m., 1:25, 4:05, 9:25, 12:05 a.m.; Sun 10:45 a.m., 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25; Mon-Thur 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25. Flash of Genius Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50, 12:30 a.m.; Sat 10:35 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50, 12:30 a.m.; Sun 10:35 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50. Go Diego Go: Journey to Jaguar Thur only, 10 a.m. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25. Igor 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15. Lakeview Terrace 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25. Miracle at St. Anna Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 6:45, 10:15, 11:30; Sun-Thur 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 6:45, 10:15. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55, 12:10 a.m.; Sat 10:20 a.m., 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55, 12:10 a.m.; Sun 10:20 a.m., 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Thur 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55.

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10:25; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25. Choke Fri-Sun 7:05, 9:25; Mon-Thur 7:50, 10:10. Eagle Eye Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10. Flash of Genius Fri-Sun 1, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1:25, 4:35, 7:05, 9:50. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55; Mon-Thur 2:10, 4:45, 8, 10:30. Igor Fri-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 4:45; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:15, 5:30. Lakeview Terrace Fri-Sun 12:45, 4, 7:30, 10:10; MonThur 1:40, 4:30, 7:35, 10:15. Miracle at St. Anna Fri-Sun 12:55, 4:20, 8:10; Mon-Thur 1:20, 4:50, 8:15. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10; Mon-Thur 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45. Nights in Rodanthe Fri 12:05, 3, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35; SatSun 12:05, 2:25, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35; Mon-Thur 2:05, 5, 7:55, 10:20. Religulous Fri 11:40 a.m., 2:35, 5:20, 8, 10:40; SatSun 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5:20, 8, 10:40; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:05. UA Marina, 4335 Glencoe Av, (310) 823-1721. Appaloosa 12:20, 3:30, 7:20, 10:10. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40. Burn After Reading 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30. Fireproof 12:30, 3:40, 7, 9:50. Lakeview Terrace 12:40, 3:50, 7:30, 10:20. Miracle at St. Anna noon, 3:20, 6:40, 10. Open Captioned Performance - Selected Film - Daily.

DOWNTOWN & SOUTH L.A. Laemmle’s Grande 4-Plex, 345 S Figueroa St, (213) 617-0268. Burn After Reading Fri 5:30, 7:50, 10:15; Sat-Sun 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15; Mon-Thur 5:30, 7:50. Eagle Eye Fri 5, 7:40, 10:20; Sat-Sun 1:50, 5, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Thur 5, 7:40. Lakeview Terrace Fri 5, 7:35, 10:10; Sat-Sun 1:40, 5, 7:35, 10:10; Mon-Thur 5, 7:35. Mentor Fri 6, 10; Sat-Sun 1:30, 6, 10; Mon-Thur 6. The Violent Kid Fri 8; Sat-Sun 3:30, 8; Mon-Thur 8. Magic Johnson Theaters, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 4020 Marlton Av, (323) 290-5900. An American Carol Fri-Sun 10:15 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:30; MonThur 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:30. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sun 10:05 a.m., 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; Mon-Thur 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10. Blindness Fri-Sun 11:20 a.m., 2:15, 5:10, 8, 11; MonThur 2:15, 5:10, 8, 10:40. Eagle Eye Fri-Sat 10:35 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:30, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:25, 7:55, 10:20, 10:50; Sun 10:35 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:30, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:25, 7:55, 10:20; Mon-Thur 1:30, 2, 4:25, 4:55, 7:25, 7:55, 10:20. Igor Fri-Sun 11:25 a.m., 1:45, 4:10, 7:35, 10; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:10, 7:35, 10. Lakeview Terrace Fri-Sun 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:40, 2:10, 4:20, 4:50, 7:10, 7:40, 9:50, 10:25; Mon-Thur 1:40, 2:10, 4:20, 4:50, 7:10, 7:40, 9:50, 10:25. Miracle at St. Anna Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 12:25, 3:15, 4:05, 7, 7:35, 10:30; Mon-Thur noon, 12:30, 3:15, 3:45, 6:30, 7, 9:45. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sun 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Thur 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55. Nights in Rodanthe 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15. Righteous Kill Fri-Sun 10:10 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35; Mon-Thur 12:35, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30. Tropic Thunder Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35. Tyler Perry’s the Family That Preys Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05. University Village 3, 3323 S Hoover St, (213) 7486321. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45; Sun-Thur 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15,

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HOLLYWOOD ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Bl, (323) 464-4226. Appaloosa Fri-Sun 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35; Tue 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:55, 7:55, 10:35. Blindness Fri-Tue 11:10 a.m., 2, 5, 7:50, 10:40. Burn After Reading Fri-Mon 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10. Choke Fri-Tue 11:20 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50. The Duchess Fri-Tue 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20. Eagle Eye Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 1:25, 2:20, 4:35, 5:30, 7:25, 8:30, 10:25, 11:25; Mon 11:30 a.m., 2:20, 9:40; Tue 11:30 a.m., 1:25, 2:20, 4:35, 5:30, 8:30, 11:25. The Express Sat only, 7:30. Flash of Genius Fri-Tue 11:35 a.m., 2:25, 5:15, 8:05, 10:55. Miracle at St. Anna Fri 12:40, 4, 7:30, 10:50; Sat 12:40, 4, 10:30; Sun 12:40, 4, 7:30, 10:50; Tue 12:40, 4, 7:30, 10:50. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Tue 11:15 a.m., 4:25, 10:05. Nights in Rodanthe Fri 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; Sat 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15; Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; Mon 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 10:15; Tue 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15. Rachel Getting Married Fri 11:50 a.m., 1:35, 2:30, 5:10, 7:15, 8:10, 11:05; Sat 11:50 a.m., 1:35, 2:30, 5:20, 7:15, 8:10, 10:50; Sun-Tue 11:50 a.m., 1:35, 2:30, 5:10, 7:15, 8:10, 11:05. Religulous Fri-Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55. Grauman’s Chinese, 6925 Hollywood Bl, (323) 4648111. An American Carol Fri only, 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10. The Dark Knight Fri only, 12:30, 6:20. Ghost Town Fri only, 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. Igor Fri only, 1, 3:20, 5:40. Lakeview Terrace Fri only, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10. Righteous Kill Fri only, 3:50, 9:40. Vicky Cristina Barcelona Fri only, 8, 10:20. Los Feliz 3, 1822 N Vermont Av, (323) 664-2169. Burn After Reading 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Eagle Eye 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Mann Chinese 6, 6801 Hollywood Bl, (323) 461-3331. An American Carol 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10. The Dark Knight Fri-Sun 12:30, 6:20; Tue-Thur 12:30, 6:20. Ghost Town 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. Igor 1, 3:20, 5:40. Lakeview Terrace 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10. Righteous Kill Fri-Sun 3:50, 9:40; Tue-Thur 3:50, 9:40. Vicky Cristina Barcelona 8, 10:20. Pacific’s El Capitan, 6838 Hollywood Bl, (323) 4677674. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7, 9:40, 12:10 a.m.; Sun-Mon 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7, 9:40; Tue 10 a.m., 1; Wed-Thur 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7, 9:40. Pacific’s The Grove Stadium 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Third St & Fairfax Av, (323) 692-0829. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 11:10 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35. Blindness 10:45 a.m., 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10:50. Burn After Reading 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10. The Duchess 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05. Eagle Eye Fri 10:35 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:15, 4:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:30, 11:20, 12:15 a.m.; Sat 10:35 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:15, 4:30, 5:15, 7:30, 8:20, 10:30, 11:20, 12:15 a.m.; Sun-Mon 10:35 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:15, 4:30, 5:15, 7:30, 8:20, 10:30, 11:15; Tue 10:35 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:15, 4:30, 5:15, 7:30, 8:20, 10:25, 11:15; Wed 10:35 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:15, 4:30, 5:15, 7:30, 8:20, 10:30, 11:15; Thur 10:35 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:15, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30, 11:20. The Express Sat only, 8. Flash of Genius Fri-Mon 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25; Tue 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20; WedThur 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25. Ghost Town Fri-Mon 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 11:05; Tue 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 11:05; Wed-Thur 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 11:05. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:20, 8:15, 11:10, 12:30 a.m.; Sun-Thur 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:20, 8:15, 11:10. Miracle at St. Anna Fri 11:50 a.m., 3:25, 7, 10:40; Sat 12:30, 4:10, 11:15; Sun-Mon 11:50 a.m., 3:25, 7, 10:35; Tue 11:50 a.m., 3:25, 7, 10:30; Wed 11:50 a.m., 3:25, 7, 10:35; Thur 11:50 a.m., 3:25, 7, 10:40. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sat 10:25 a.m., 12:40, 1:45, 3, 5:30, 7:10, 8:05, 10:45, 12:10 a.m.; Sun 10:25 a.m., 12:40, 1:45, 3, 5:30, 7:10, 8:05, 10:45; Mon 11 a.m., 1:45, 2:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:05, 10:45; Tue 11 a.m., 1:35, 1:45, 4, 7:10, 8:10, 10:45; Wed-Thur 10:25 a.m., 12:40, 1:45, 3, 5:30, 7:10, 8:05, 10:45. Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Mon 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45; Tue 10:35; Wed-Thur 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45.

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Religulous Fri-Sat 10:50 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 2:05, 4:15, 5, 7:55, 9:40, 10:55, 12:25 a.m.; Sun-Wed 10:50 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 2:05, 4:15, 5, 7:55, 9:40, 10:55; Thur 10:50 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 2:05, 4:15, 5, 7:55, 9:30, 10:55. Regent Showcase, 614 N La Brea Av, (323) 934-2944. The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela 9:30. Battle in Seattle Fri 7:30; Sat-Sun 5:30, 7:30; Mon-Thur 7:30. Vine, 6321 Hollywood Bl, (323) 463-6819. Vista, 4473 Sunset, (323) 660-6639. Religulous Fri 4:30, 7, 9:30; Sat-Sun 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Mon-Thur 4:30, 7, 9:30.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, UNIVERSAL CITY Century 8, 12827 Victory Bl, (818) 508-6004. Appaloosa 11:20 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40. Eagle Eye 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25. Igor 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50. Lakeview Terrace 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5, 7:45, 10:20. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55. Nights in Rodanthe 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45. Righteous Kill 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15. Loews CityWalk Stadium 19 with IMAX, 100 Universal City Dr at Universal CityWalk, (818) 508-0588; IMAX Theater (818) 760-8100. An American Carol Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 1:25, 3:40, 6, 8:30, 11; Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:25, 3:40, 6, 8:30, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1:25, 3:40, 6, 8:30, 10:35. Appaloosa Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 2:30, 4, 4:55, 6:20, 7:20, 9, 10, 11:30; Sun 11 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 2:30, 4, 4:55, 6:20, 7:20, 9, 10; Mon-Thur 1:30, 2:30, 4, 4:55, 6:20, 7:20, 9, 10. Blindness Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:45; Sun 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:35; Mon-Thur 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:35. Burn After Reading Fri 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:20, 7, 9:30, 11:55; Sat 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:20, 10:05; Sun 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:20, 7, 9:30; Mon-Thur 2, 4:20, 7, 9:30. The Dark Knight Fri-Sun 11:50 a.m., 3:10, 6:30, 9:50; Mon-Thur 2:25, 6:30, 9:50. Eagle Eye Fri-Sat 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25, 12:10 a.m.; SunThur 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25. Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience IMAX Fri-Sun noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:40; IMAX Mon-Thur 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:40. The Express Sat only, 7. Flash of Genius Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Fri-Sat 12:20, 3, 5:40, 8:20, 11:10; Sun 12:20, 3, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45; Mon-Thur 2:45, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45. Igor Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 4:30, 6:55, 9:10; MonThur 2:15, 4:30, 6:55, 9:10. Lakeview Terrace Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50; Sun 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45; Mon-Thur 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45. Miracle at St. Anna Fri-Sat 3:55, 7:25, 10:55; Sun-Thur 3:55, 7:25. My Best Friend’s Girl Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 10:25; Mon-Thur 2:55, 5:45, 10:25. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sat 11:25 a.m., noon, 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 8:05, 9:40, 12:05 a.m.; Sun 11:25 a.m., noon, 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 8:05, 9:40; Mon-Thur 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 8:05, 9:40. Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10; Mon-Thur 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10. Righteous Kill Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45, 12:10 a.m.; Sun-Thur 1:20, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45. Tropic Thunder Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:05, 5:35, 8:15, 10:55; Sun 12:30, 3:05, 5:35, 8:15, 10:40; Mon-Thur 2:40, 5:35, 8:15, 10:40.

SANTA MONICA AMC Santa Monica 7, 1310 Third Street Promenade, (310) 395-3030. Appaloosa Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:55; Mon-Thur 1:35, 4:15, 7, 9:40. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sun 11 a.m., noon, 1:30, 2:25, 4, 4:50, 6:30, 7:15, 9, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:30, 2:15, 4, 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 8:45, 9:30. Burn After Reading Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5, 7:50, 10:30; Mon-Thur 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10. The Express Sat only, 7. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Thur 2, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55. Lakeview Terrace Fri-Sun 11:20 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45. Miracle at St. Anna Fri 11:50 a.m., 3:20, 6:45, 10:05; Sat 11:50 a.m., 3:20, 10:05; Sun 11:50 a.m., 3:20, 6:45, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2:45, 6:15, 9:35. Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex, 1332 Second St, (310) 3949741. Blindness 1:10, 4, 7, 9:50. Choke 1, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15. The Duchess 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10. Religulous 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45.

Loews Cineplex Broadway, 1441 Third Street Promenade, (310) 458-1506. An American Carol Fri-Sun 12:55, 3, 5:05, 7:10, 9:20; Mon-Thur 2:20, 4:35, 7, 9. Flash of Genius Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10; Mon-Thur 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15. Igor Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 1:05, 3:10, 5:15; MonThur 2:40, 4:40. Tropic Thunder Fri-Sun 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Thur 7:10, 9:45. Vicky Cristina Barcelona Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40; Mon-Thur 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35. Mann Criterion, 1313 Third Street Promenade, (310) 395-1599. Eagle Eye FriSat 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:10, 12:10 a.m.; Sun-Thur 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:10. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:30, midnight; Sun-Thur 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:30. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sat 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7:10, 8, 9:20, 10:20, 11:30; Sun-Thur 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7:10, 8, 9:20, 10:20. Nights in Rodanthe noon, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 10.

SHERMAN OAKS, ENCINO ArcLight Sherman Oaks, 15301 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-0753. Appaloosa Fri-Tue 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Tue 11:50 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40. Blindness Fri-Tue 11:40 a.m., 2:25, 5:20, 8:10, 11. Burn After Reading Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:25, 10:05; Mon-Tue 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:25, 9:45. Choke Fri 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30; Sat-Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:45. The Duchess Fri 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:15, 10:45; Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:15, 10:55; Mon-Tue 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:25, 10:55. Eagle Eye Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 1:35, 2:30, 4:35, 5:40, 7:45, 8:20, 10:35, 11:10; MonTue 11:30 a.m., 1:35, 2:30, 4:35, 5:40, 7:45, 8:30, 10:35. The Express Sat only, 7:05. Flash of Genius Fri-Sun 12:10, 3, 5:45, 8:35, 11:15; Mon-Tue 12:10, 3, 5:45, 8:05, 10:45. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40; Mon-Tue 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:15, 10:40.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People FriSun 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:25, 10:50; MonTue 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50. Miracle at St. Anna Fri-Tue 12:05, 3:35, 7:05, 10:25. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri 12:20,

2:40, 5:30, 8:30, 10:55; Sat-Tue 12:20, 2:40, 5:30, 8, 10:30. Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 10; Mon-Tue 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:55, 7:10, 10. Rachel Getting Married Fri-Sun 11:35 a.m.,

2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 11:05; Mon-Tue 11:35 a.m., 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20. Religulous Fri-Sun 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Mon-Tue 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05. RocknRolla Tue only, 12:01 a.m.

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Laemmle’s Town Center 5, 17200 Ventura Bl, Encino, (818) 981-9811. Battle in Seattle 1:10, 4, 7:10, 9:45. Bottle Shock 1, 3:50, 7, 9:35. David & Fatima 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:55. A Secret 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10. Mann Plant 16, 7876 Van Nuys Bl, Panorama City, (818) 779-0323. An American Carol 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 11:30 a.m., 12:20, 1:50, 2:40, 4:10, 5, 6:30, 7:20, 8:50, 9:40. Blindness 1:10, 4:05, 7, 10. Death Race 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. Disaster Movie 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10. Eagle Eye 12:40, 1:30, 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:20. Fly Me to the Moon 3-D 2, 6:45. The House Bunny 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:20. Igor noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D 11:40 a.m., 4:20, 9. Lakeview Terrace 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45. Miracle at St. Anna 11:30 a.m., 3, 6:30, 10. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10. Nights in Rodanthe 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45. Righteous Kill 9:20.

Pacific’s Sherman Oaks 5, 14424 Millbank St, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-5121. Burn After Reading 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40. Igor 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35. Lakeview Terrace 1:05, 4:05, 7, 9:50. Nights in Rodanthe 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45. Righteous Kill 1:25, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS, CENTURY CITY AMC Century City 15, 10250 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 277-2011. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sun 9:30 a.m., noon, 2:30, 5, 7:35, 10; Mon-Thur noon, 2:30, 5, 7:35, 9:55. Blindness Fri-Sun 10 a.m., 1:30, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45; Mon-Thur 1, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30. Body of Lies Thur only, 12:01 a.m.. Burn After Reading Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 1:35, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45; Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; Thur 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45. Eagle Eye Fri-Sat 9:45 a.m., 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 7:20, 9:40, 12:30 a.m.; Sun 9:45 a.m., 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 7:20, 9:40; Mon 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 7:20, 9:40; Tue-Thur 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 7:20, 9:40. Eagle Eye: The IMAX Experience IMAX Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., 2:10, 5:15, 8:15, 11:15; IMAX Sun 11:10 a.m., 2:10, 5:15, 8:15, 11; IMAX Mon-Thur 2:10, 5:15, 8:15, 11. The Express Sat only, 7. Flash of Genius Fri-Sun 10:15 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 7:40, 10:40; Mon-Thur 12:40, 4, 7:10, 10. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:55, 7:30, 10:15; Mon-Wed 12:05, 2:55, 5:35,

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8:10, 10:40; Thur 12:05, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Fri-Sat 10:30 a.m., 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50, 12:35 a.m.; Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50. Igor Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 7:15; Mon-Thur 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15. Lakeview Terrace Fri-Sun 11:25 a.m., 2:20, 5:20, 8:10, 10:55; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 10:20. My Best Friend’s Girl Fri-Sun 10:25 a.m., 4:30, 10:10; Mon-Thur 4:30, 10:10. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sat 9:55 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 12:25, 1:45, 3, 4:20, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:25, 11:50, 12:45 a.m.; Sun 9:55 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 12:25, 1:45, 3, 4:20, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:25; Mon-Thur 12:25, 1:45, 3, 4:20, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:25. Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05; Mon-Thur 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05. Quarantine Thur only, 12:01 a.m. Righteous Kill Fri 11:50 a.m., 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:50; Sat 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:25, 10:20; Sun-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:50; Thur 12:15, 2:45. Tropic Thunder Fri-Sat 9:35, 12:10 a.m.; SunThur 9:35. Laemmle’s Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Bl, (310) 274-6869. David & Fatima Fri 5:30, 8:15; Sat-Sun noon, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15; MonThur 5:30, 8:15. Il Barbiere di Siviglia Sun 11 a.m.; Thur 7:30. A Secret Fri 5:20, 8; Sat noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8; Sun 2:40, 5:20, 8; Mon-Wed 5, 10; Thur 5. Still Life Fri 5, 7:30, 10; Sat-Sun noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Mon-Thur 5, 7:30, 10. Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theatre, 8000 Sunset Bl, (323) 848-3500. Allah Made Me Funny 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. August Evening 1:30, 7. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 10. The House of Adam 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50. Obscene 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, 9:45. Save Me 4:30, 9:55.

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Ghost Town Fri-Sun 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45; Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45; Thur 1:55, 4:25, 7:05. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:10. Igor Fri-Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55; Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55; Thur 1:10, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45. Lakeview Terrace Fri-Sun 10:50 a.m., 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:40. Miracle at St. Anna Fri-Sun 11:20 a.m., 3, 6:35, 10:10; Mon-Thur 2:35, 6:10, 9:30. My Best Friend’s Girl Fri 10:25 a.m., 4, 9:35; Sat 10:25 a.m., 4, 10:25; Sun 10:25 a.m., 4, 9:35; Mon-Wed 4:05, 9:20; Thur 4:05. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sat 10:35 a.m., 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:40; Sun 10:35 a.m., 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:15. Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Sat 10:30 a.m., 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45; Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35. Righteous Kill Fri-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:15; Mon-Thur 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:05. Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7 Cinemas, Fallbrook Mall, 6731 Fallbrook Av, West Hills, (818) 340-8710. Blindness FriSun 12:40, 4, 7:10, 9:55; Mon-Thur 1:40, 5, 8:10. Burn After Reading Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50. C Ravi Sun only, 10 a.m. Drona Fri-Sun noon, 3, 6:15, 9:30; Mon-Thur noon, 3, 6, 9. Ghost Town Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:25; Mon-Thur noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8. Kidnap Fri-Sun noon, 3, 6:15, 9:30; Mon-Thur noon, 3, 6, 9. Nights in Rodanthe Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:40. Religulous Fri-Sun noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Mon-Thur 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fri only, 11:55.

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Festival & Artivist Awards – Bomb Harvest, 9:30. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Japanese Ghost Stories – Ugetsu, 7:30. George Romero – Night of the Living Dead, 10; followed by Day of the Dead. L.A. County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre, L.A., (323) 857-6010. Lacma.org. Preview Screening – Happy-Go-Lucky, 7:30. Director Mike Leigh and actress Sally Hawkins will appear. New Beverly Cinema The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 7:30; Charley Varrick, 9:35.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Beat The Devil: The Films of John Huston – The African Queen, 7:30; followed by Prizzi’s Honor. American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival & Artivist Awards – One Water, 8. 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival & Artivist Awards – Zeitgeist Addendum, 9:30; followed by Q&A with director Peter Joseph. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Val Lewton – Cat People (1942), 7:30. HolyFuckingShit: Evil Children – Mondo Kinder-Carnage!, 10. L.A. County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre Four Masterpieces by Edward Yang – That Day On the Beach, 7:30. New Beverly Cinema The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 3:15, 7:30; Charley Varrick, 5:20, 9:35. Hard to Kill, 11:59.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Beat The Devil: The Films of John Huston – The Misfits, 7:30; followed by Moulin Rouge (1952). CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Family Books Presents – The Masque of the Red Death, 8; followed by The Premature Burial. New Beverly Cinema The Lineup, 4, 7:30; Blast of Silence, 5:50, 9:20.

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cherish a picture – snapped at a retail chain’s convention in Amarillo, Texas, sometime in 1988 – of myself and Roy Orbison. Clad entirely in black, every hair in helmeted place, eyes masked in Coke-bottle-thick shades, the notoriously immobile Orbison looks like a cardboard cutout of himself. A similarly black-clad ’50s contemporary at Sun Records, Johnny Cash, was considered by many a man of the people; Orbison always seemed like a man of Mars. Orbison’s otherworldliness – and his music’s strangeness and bleakness – is handsomely captured on the new four-CD box The Soul of Rock and Roll (Legacy). This career-summarizing collection supplants the 18-year-old box The Legendary Roy Orbison, and serves as a cost-effective alternative to Orbison, Bear Family’s pricey, comprehensive seven-CD overview of Orbison’s days at Sun, RCA, and Monument. The new Legacy set steps up with a batch of previously unreleased material from the early stages of Orbison’s career, and it helps delineate the off-road course the vocalist drove before he arrived at his true musical métier. His late ’50s singles for New Mexico producer Norman Petty (who later cut Buddy Holly) and Memphis’s Sun Records, both solo and with his Texas band the Teen Kings, found Orbison uncomfortably casting himself as a rocker. One Sun single, “Ooby Dooby,” fared no better than No. 59 on the Hot 100. The unreleased material on the Legacy box – demo sessions and a 1956 party “guitar pull” – finds the singer struggling with up-tempo material. The box’s title to the contrary, Roy Orbison was never an effective rocker; this Sun’s Sam Phillips and RCA’s Chet Atkins learned rapidly. There was nothing tough or swaggering about his music. His high, wavering, slightly strained tenor voice was truly at home with aria-like ballads of loneliness and romantic torment and collapse. Rock ’n’ roll generally is about joy; Orbison’s often self-penned music is usually about agony. The word “dreams” crops up in his material regularly, but the landscape is nightmarish. At Monument Records, Orbison crafted five years’ worth of extravagantly arranged, over-the-top, sometimes morbidly downcast hits: “Only the Lonely,” “Crying,” “Running Scared,” “In Dreams,” “Falling.” Only his lone No. 1 single, “Oh, Pretty Woman,” sported the throb of rock ’n’ roll. Orbison’s harrowing music was great, but it made you want to check the locks on the gun cabinets. The Big O’s career began to falter around the time his personal life started to mirror his songs: His wife Claudette (source of his 1958 hit for the Everlys) died in a 1966 motorcycle wreck, and two sons died in a 1968 fire. He spent years in the commercial wilderness. After “Oh, Pretty Woman,” it would be 25 years before Orbison would land a single in the Top 10 – and by then, he’d be dead. Orbison’s blood-chilling music started coming back into vogue in the late ’80s. Most memorably, actor Dean Stockwell mimed a newly-recorded version of “In Dreams” in a climactic scene in David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet, neatly, and creepily, nailing the picture’s atmosphere of pervasive corruption. (Orbison’s lone movie starring role, flashing a combination rifle-guitar in the 1966 Western The Fastest Guitar Alive, is an surreal absurdity worthy of Lynch himself.) Orbison then joined Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty to supply gravitas in the lighthearted supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He recorded a comeback album with Lynne, but he was felled by a heart attack before Mystery Girl was released. A previously unreleased track from Orbison’s last show, recorded in Akron, Ohio, on Dec. 4, 1988, two days before his death, is included on The Soul of Rock and Roll. Which song? Why, “It’s Over,” of course. That touch feels oddly right, unsettling yet spot on. Roy Orbison’s music embraced the darkest things in pop – the terminal things – so it seems proper to end this deeply satisfying compilation on a thoroughly mortal note.✶ Chris Morris hosts Watusi Rodeo on Indie 103.1 every Sunday at 9 a.m.

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e Angelenos are spoiled when it comes to music. We’re showered with new bands weekly, yet shrug off all enthusiasm, perhaps because we don’t want to mess our hair up. Well, screw your ’do, because the L.A. Weekly Detour Fest puts music beyond collective coolness. Some 25 bands will disrupt downtown traffic Saturday to bring a procession of world-class music. From headliners the Mars Volta to Gogol Bordello, Shiny Toy Guns, and the Black Lips, fans are going to have their hands and ears full, so pour a forty for your friends that can’t make it, because the mayhem will be talked about for months afterwards. The Submarines, Shiny Toy Guns, Guns ’n’ Bombs are just a few of the local bands hijacking your brain from noon until midnight. Remember all those times that the cops told you to put away your PBR before crossing the street? Well, you can chug it in front of the mayor if you want, because this is acceptable at the Detour. For the longest time, Los Angeles was without a rock festival of its own. What with the L.A. contingent under the sun at Coachella, why would we want to stay in the city? But since 2006 the Detour folks (that would be those Culver City cats at L.A. Weekly) have run a good show, so with four stages and countless DJs from around the world the show has become like that big to-do in Indio, too colossal for one person to experience it all. If all the advertisements can be avoided and sufficient beer can be snuck in and nobody tries to step on your shoes, then it will be a day to brag about later. The Mars Volta will cover prog and Gogol Bordello will take gypsy-punk in hand, while Nico Vega fetches the all-too-important soul-searing vocals needed at any festival and Black Lips can bring chips. Nah, they’re cool. These are only a few of the acts that’ll be at the third Detour, along with DJs, trip-hoppers and rappers and just about everyone else in between. So, hipsters, cholos, cholos-manques and sub-groups as yet unclassified by taxonomists have no excuse not to attend.✶ Sat., Main Street & 2nd Street, downtown. Noon. $40. Detour.laweekly.com. NICO VEGA

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irst off, the Los Angeles State Historic Park is a treasure. Still known as “The Cornfield” by locals, the long, gently rolling meadow near Naud Junction is a rare spot for Angelenos to lie on our backs in the grass like the sore-used beasts we are. Municipal types deem it “world-class,” and, for once, that isn’t City Hall Newspeak, like the designation of the MTA as some kind of “America’s Best,” when the slogan “Not Significantly Faster Than Walking” would do far less violence to the truth. Still, the Gold Line was unusually merry when I stepped off it at Chinatown for the We the People festival Saturday at the park. I followed a pair of long feminine legs down winding stairs straight into a nest of LAPD, where cops eyed me with a snout-twitch of interest and one carload flipped a bitch, slowly following me a few paces before careening off after higher-profile miscreants. There were even more cops clumped outside the gate to the fenced-off park, along with some bullet-headed event-staffer squalling “If you don’t have a ticket, get off the sidewalk!” through a megaphone at pedestrians. I saw more than one patron walk away from the entrance in disgust, and the thought crossed my own mind, but I accepted two wristbands and negligently handed the other to the leggy blonde vision I’d followed in. There ensued a protracted fuckaround at the gate, as understaffed security diligently searched one patron at a time, the asshole with the megaphone kept up his bawling at random citizens, and cops with expressions of glazed happiness looked upon Utopia and found it good. While brooding upon exactly when this kind of brute chickenshit came to be accepted as normal, I was let in, but not before a total of nine staffers, some of them standing elbow-to-elbow but oblivious, demanded to see my wristband. Once

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inside, one heard no more demands or, indeed, saw any more cops. Nor that many attendees, as catastrophic economic news combined with short-arm-of-the-law hijinks outside to keep fans away. Still, all was love and friendliness within, as several generations of punks clustered around Suicidal Tendencies at the main stage and the redoubtable Mike Muir riffed about our fucked-up world. There was a great deal of scalded-left rhetoric flooding from every mic and occasionally lusty cheers would go up as a performer struck a palpable hit on Dubya or McCain. At the second stage, Look Daggers went at the biz of social-protest hip-hop with great assurance, as rapper 2Mex, a tee reading “Behold a Palin Horse” taut over his belly, presided over a brilliantly ominous turn as the sun set over the downtown skyline. I ran into my leggy friend, who told me security had clipped off the wristband I’d given her, with a “This doesn’t belong to you!” We stood and watched WuTang’s RZA unlimber the loose and funky set I’d come to this gulag to see, the star charging through with James Brownian flash and brio. Despite good vibes and congenial people, the Potemkin Village atmosphere gave me the unambiguous creeps and I drifted toward the train and a party in the Warehouse District well before the 11 p.m. closing. After the show ended, there was a flurry of rumors that some authority or other had forbidden Rep. Cynthia McKinney, antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and others to address the festival. In the hours remaining until deadline, I spoke to numerous people who blamed police, the Mayor’s Office and/or festival organizers Project Sweatshop for this undemocratic lapse. Repeated efforts to contact the Mayor’s Office and festival organizers were turned away, but Cindy Sheehan’s campaign office, after bugging by me, did release the following angry, if diplomatically worded, statement: “The Cindy for Congress campaign is deeply disappointed that we were invited to speak during this weekend’s ‘We The People’ event in Los Angeles, but were then turned away.” Yes, but by whom? “The event organizers,” the release continued, “have apologized to us and we have accepted their apology, but we remain concerned that so many voices were silenced with no explanation, no notice, and no due process.”✶

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From its origins as that “weird” Swedish death-metal band that used odd, elegiac textures to salve the genre’s brutal lyrics and volume, Opeth has grown into one of the world’s biggest and most interesting progressive bands. Wry main-man Mikael Akerfeldt’s wide range of vocal styles and his obsessive love for obscure ’70s bands has aided him in plotting the course of the group’s nine studio albums, with its latest, Watershed, an epic concept disc with more stylistic breadth than ever. Opeth’s current set list covers the band’s entire output – surely something to please nearly everyone in its picky fan-base – and coupled with the lightning-strike doom and drone of opening groups High on Fire, and Baroness, this is a night of thinking-person’s metal par excellence. –Joshua Sindell Tues. at the Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 388-1400, livenation.com.

This Week’s Highlights Thursday, October 2

Amon Amarth, Ensiferium, Belphegor, The Absence. Swedes Amon Amarth are renowned as the kings of Viking-themed death metal. Avalon, Hollywood, avalonhollywood.com. Neil Diamond. Hot October nights with Neil … and fresh off his second collaboration with Rick Rubin, too. Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, hollywoodbowl.com. Also Sat. at Staples Center, downtown L.A., staplescenter. com. Justin Townes Earle, Sarah Gayle Meech, Whispering Pines. Earle (the 26-year-old son of Steve) leads a trio of American roots artists at this special Thursday edition of Grand Ol’ Echo. The Echo, Echo Park, attheecho.com. Gram Rabbit, Semi Precious Weapons, The Ringers. Local bands only tonight, most notable for the country psychedelia of headliners Gram Rabbit. House of Blues Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, hob.com. James, Unkle Bob. Nineties U.K. indie stars James never quite hit here, despite great singles “Laid” and “Sit Down.” El Rey Theatre, Miracle Mile, theelrey.com. Ben Kweller. The onetime Radish phenom heads down a more introspective path these days. The Troubadour, West Hollywood, troubadour.com. McCabe’s Guitar Shop’s 50th Anniversary. The humble Santa Monica venue is feted by such stars as Jackson Browne, Richard Thompson, Odetta, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ricky Jay, Peter Case, and special guests to be announced. Royce Hall, UCLA, uclalive.org. My Bloody Valentine, Gemma Hayes. Long-awaited comeback from the high-volume/distorted guitar-playing Brits whose masterwork, Loveless, remains one of the best albums of the last 25 years. Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica. Rancid. California’s best punkers return for a lengthy homestand. Music Box @ Fonda, Hollywood, henryfondatheatre.com. Also Fri.-Sun. Santana. Carlos Santana’s upcoming double album, Multi-Dimensional Warrior, is the Latin legend’s latest exploration of guitar’s outer limits. Nokia Theatre LA Live, downtown L.A., nokiatheatrelalive.com. Also Fri. Sigur Ros. The Icelandic masters of alien sonic-scapes return. Greek Theatre, Griffith Park, greektheatrela. com. Unclassified: Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger. Rock icon Reed and experimental music practitioner Krieger improvise a set of avant music. REDCAT, downtown L.A., redcat.org. Also Fri.

Friday, October 3

David Byrne. The former Talking Head plays “Music of Byrne and Eno.” Greek Theatre. Nikka Costa. The blues-funk momma promotes her latest, Pebble to a Pearl. El Rey Theatre. The Dandy Warhols, A Place to Bury Strangers. Portland’s finest neo-glamsters, the Dandies should play the almost-hits from their five albums. The Wiltern, Los Angeles, livenation.com. Deerhoof, Okay, The Happy Hollows. Bay Area alt-rock kings Deerhoof make another Friend Opportunity. Avalon. Great Big Sea. Long-running Canadian Celtic folk artists make a rare local appearance. House of Blues Sunset Strip. Kronos Quartet. The quartet performs Awakening: A Musical Meditation on the Anniversary of 9/11. Royce Hall. Odetta. One of American music’s true giants, even sitting in her wheelchair, the 77-year-old is a compelling and rousing artist. McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, mccabes.com.

Saturday, October 4

Detour Festival with the Mars Volta, Gogol Bordello, Shiny Toy Guns, the Presets, and many more. Downtown L.A., detour.laweekly.com. Dr. John & the Lower 911. Mac Rebennack leads his Louisiana crew through his marvelous R&B revue. House of Blues Sunset Strip. 2nd Annual Murder the Dancefloor Event presents four stages of electro-dance artists and DJs, including Alice Deejay, Adam F, the Toxic Avenger, Dash Berlin, 3Oh!3, and many more. Shrine Expo Center, downtown L.A., theknivesarecoming.com. Eagle Rock Music Festival. Over 50 bands, including Earlimart, Mika Miko, Radar Bros., Abe Vigoda, and Crystal Antlers, will perform. 5 p.m.-midnight, Colorado Boulevard between Eagle Rock Boulevard and Argus. Free. Myspace.com/eaglerockmusicfestival. The Swell Season, Iron & Wine. Glen Hansard (the Frames) and Marketa Irglova reprise their Oscar-winning musical roles from the movie Once; plus hush-voiced Sam Beam brings Iron & Wine to the big stage. Greek Theatre. Tarfest presents Love Lies Sleeping, Castledoor, DJ Diabetic (Shepard Fairey), and the Illuminoids. El Rey Theatre.

Sunday, October 5

Jackson Browne. Hiding behind a salt-and-pepper beard these days, Browne has released a new opus, Time the Conqueror, which finds The Pretender with his mind on our troubled times. Orpheum Theatre, downtown L.A., laorpheum.com. Grand Ol’ Echo. The hoedown begins at 5 p.m. with guests Mike Stinson, Dime Box Band, Chris Laterzo & Buffalo Robe, and Banjo Fred Stamer. The Echo, myspace.com/thegrandoleecho.com. Liz Phair. Get your girlysound action here when Phair performs her classic Exile in Guyville album in its entirety. The Troubadour. Also Mon.

Monday, October 6

Helloween, Gamma Ray. Not one but two veteran German heavy metal bands join forces to blitzkrieg us unsuspecting Yanks! House of Blues Sunset Strip. Noah and the Whale. Young, sunny-sounding Brits with a fiddle player named – seriously – Tom Fiddle. Spaceland, Silver Lake, clubspaceland.com.

Tuesday, October 7

Cubensis, Highway 61 Revisited. Call ’em tribute or cover bands, the music of Dylan and the Dead is performed tonight. House of Blues Sunset Strip. Heavy Trash. Onetime blues exploder Jon Spencer kicks out the ya-yas and the uhn-uhns with his new rock duo. The Echo. Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s. Eclectic chamber pop from this Indianapolis octet. The Troubadour.

Wednesday, October 8

Gavin DeGraw, Charlotte Sometimes. Mainstream pop has been very good to Mr. DeGraw; Charlotte Sometimes (a.k.a. Jessica Poland) is a rising young singer from New Jersey. House of Blues Sunset Strip. Giant Sand. Howe Gelb and co. continue their 22-year mission to stay willfully obscure. The Echo. Nachtmystium. Currently the best black metal group America has to offer. Knitting Factory, Hollywood, knittingfactory.com. New Kids on the Block. Wait … grunge didn’t kill them off? Staples Center. Sherwood, The Pink Spiders. Underrated pop-punkers the Pink Spiders support San Luis Obispo Christian emo types Sherwood. The Troubadour. Wailing Souls. The Jamaican reggae legends, evidently still jammin’ with verve. Key Club.

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Little Wild One (Plum Records) Cynthia Levin used to do a standup bit about smug, complacent housewife types watering their houseplants while trilling along to whichever gently singing ladies were currently holding up adult alternative radio – Shawn Colvin, it might have been, or Sarah McLachlan. Those housewife-types drove Levin out of her motherfucking mind. And so Joan Osborne, the gently-singingest of them all, has a new album out, and I am going to listen to it and water my plants, and I am going to laugh and laugh. Little Wild One is almost like Joan Osborne at a karaoke bar; there’s absolutely no cohesion to the album, no throughline. Each song finds Osborne biting someone’s style: There’s the Emmylou Harris-ish opener “Hallelujah in the City,” and “Cathedrals,” in which you can hear a whole lotta Patty Griffin. I swear there’s some sort of Juice Newton in the title track (which also bites a bit of the melody from Linda Ronstadt’s “You’re No Good”) and don’t miss the Gloria Estefan/ Ronstadtian pop-Latin hybrid “Can’t Say No” or the keys-‘n’-bass-driven jazz straight from Fiona Apple. Each song is completely distinct from its sisters and from Osborne’s past hits. There’s straight-up country and piano-lounge, there’s Celtic dirge, there’s bluegrass, and I like every bit of it. Now I’d just like to see Osborne karaoke some Zeppelin. –Rebecca Schoenkopf

Brian “Head” Welch

Save Me From Myself (Driven Music Group) After quitting both drugs and his band, Brian “Head” Welch emerged from the Korn-fields with eyes widened and soul saddened. It wasn’t enough that the guitarist had already written about finding God in a best-selling tome (also called Save Me From Myself); Welch has now released a fulllength CD – enlisting a top-notch rhythm section in Tony Levin and Josh Freese, just to show he’s not kidding – about the perils of the rock and roll lifestyle. For the most part, he’s succeeded: Like his prior group work, his debut solo disc is de-tuned and raging – Welch’s vocals even sound much like Jonathan Davis’s – and written about keeping old demons at bay, and to explain his mistakes to those who may look up to him. Welch’s views on higher powers – and Christianity – might prove a sticking point with his old fans. But Save Me From Myself is neither lecture, harangue, nor self-help essay: it’s a decent Korn album, and, in subject matter, one of the darkest yet. –Joshua Sindell

Populous (with Short Stories)

Drawn in Basic (Morr Music) From Morr Music, the record label that brought us the gently crushing beauties of Radical Face and Lali Puna, comes Drawn in Basic, an elegant, abstract hybrid of laptop folk, indie, and dance music, the result of a collaboration between Populous (Andrea Mangia) and vocalist Short Stories (Michael McGuire). At worst, Populous paralyzes us with Xanax understatement like “Shipwreck,” which is pensive to the point of parody. At best, shoegaze-pop song structure is inundated with fluid, ambient floods of intricate synth until a lush digital soundscape overruns the senses. From the school of “minimal synth equals maximal poignancy” (Yaz, the Postal Service, Freur), Drawn includes ballads such as “The Holy See,” with its delicate heart’s death by a thousand microscopic cuts. “Raimondo” is quietly manic, swirling with fragments of sonic thoughts both digital and analog. In the aching absence of another Postal Service album, fans will surely draw solace in Drawn’s graceful dogpaddle through the waters of ambient-pop-folktronica. –Ramie Becker

Jobraith

Creatures of the Night (Collector’s Choice) This much-unheard 1974 sophomore album is an improvement over the star’s much-dissed eponymous debut the previous year. The theatricality is at a higher, more confident pitch, the funny bits (especially “Scumbag”) are nicely realized, and the gay (as in fab, not wack) rocker really gives it the oil on the mock-Sondheim production numbers. Despite what you read in leading-brand rock histories (which, with these reissues, may now be laid to crude homosexual panic), this is well worth a period enthusiast’s nickel. Given the lousy press Jobraith’s accumulated over the decades, that this amusing little artifact is remembered as a kind of Sodomize Along With Mitch doesn’t do much for one’s faith in Received Opinion. Jobraith’s career was buried so deep by short-run hype and tin-eared critics that when Morrissey went looking for him in the early 1990s, the Smiths frontman found he’d died of AIDS at the Chelsea Hotel back in the summer of 1983. –Ron Garmon

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SHORE LEAVE BY RON GARMON Waylaid: It was coming up on 7 p.m. last Friday night when I legged it out of Busby’s in the middle of the first presidential debate. Madame Editor, art director Paul Takizawa, and a roomful of boisterous others were whooping it up as Obama stylishly said nothing and McCain made every issue in a fastincinerating political status quo about him. At last Thursday’s editorial meeting, I’d gone on about the many delights of Silver Jews and David Berman’s reckless and brilliant variations on country music, so appealingly familiar to someone raised on the philosophic musings of Jerry Reed and Tom T. Hall. As the Jews’s last couple of albums were little short of incredible and Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea a revelation I’d hyped in this very space, I expected a packed house at The Echoplex and the customary fuckaround slog with a curtain rising little short of 11. Plenty of time, I thought, to indulge the e-mailed proposal by chance new ladyfriend “Zoe,” to party for a couple of hours in the Tri-West apartment she was minding. Upon arrival, my new friend introduced me to her friend “Josie,” who smiled invitingly, and I knew I’d been set-up like Philip Marlowe. For the next interval (of approximately the same duration as The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957, but of greater intrinsic interest), these sisters of providence ministered to my (by then, obvious) needs, gave freely of their persons, and expertly drew from me all tensions of a work-dominated bachelorhood. It was, for a man of my taste, dimensions, and propensities, shore leave in the very bower of Paradise. It was also, by the time the ladies decamped for a sleep-over in Brentwood, nearly 11 o’clock. Despite the lateness of the hour, there was peace in my heart and a tremor in my knees as I wobbled up La Cienega, past the wellheeled drunks babbling at The Belmont, and on to Echo Park. I was rounding the long corner at Sister Aimee’s magnificent Angelus Temple when the Jews’s set crashed terminally and waves of Melrose cowpunchers came rolling up the avenue. I went into the ’plex and stood watching roadies load out and the merch guy interrupted packing his table away to hand me a Silver Jews badge. I must’ve looked more distraught than I actually was. Underground Population Growth: As mainstream club-hopping grows ever more irksome, the previously small and select warehouse party scene has boomed enough to attract sporadic attention from cops. Happily, minions of the Law left Plump’s annual Pink Party alone, along with two other Saturday shindigs detonating within a block’s radius along a forsaken stretch of South Broadway near USC. Passengers gaped with astonishment to see an oddly dressed hillbilly step off the 45 bus into the lightless night, and one or two faces adhered gummily to the windows as it pulled away, favoring me with that look of bleak compassion reserved for dead men walking. Within a very few moments, I was off the street and among my old pals from the all-night party set, as DJs Fatfinger, Mark Zambala, and Porter Tinsley spun grooves, and urban angst – along with every other care – was left on the cracked pavement. Clubland’s essential social function of preserving sanity in the midst of ongoing madness is as essential as ever, and calls for madder music and stronger wine will doubtless escalate as disaster chases debacle. R.I.P. Richard Wright: The Pink Floyd keyboard player’s “Us and Them” is, lyrically, the high point of The Dark Side of the Moon and that album’s penultimate track, setting up Roger Waters’s bitter benediction at the finale by the babbling of lunatics delivered fresh daily by the diligent paperboy. Waters paid his former bandmate, who died of cancer on Sept. 15, just tribute by observing, “Rick’s ear for harmonic progression was our bedrock.” The music of Pink Floyd takes on added dignity and stature with each passing year, so Wright’s death drew sighs from many in Clubland, including me. ✶

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Saturday, October 4 Just the facts, ma’am. No anecdote. When it comes to sketch comedy, The Groundlings’ character work is consistently excellent. They improvise well; they understand story structure. Their alumni include several SNL, MADtv, and sitcom stars. If you’ve never been, you owe it to yourself to check out this L.A. institution. The Groundlings, Your Body and You, 8 & 10 p.m. $21.50. The Groundlings Theater, 7307 Melrose Ave., L.A., (323) 934-4747. groundlings.com. Seth Olenick

Sunday, October 5 Some comics, I swear, their words might fork lightning. They see with blinding sight. They don’t go gentle anywhere. Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks had that mojo. So does Cynthia Levin. If she brings it any harder than she did her last show I witnessed, the audience just might burst into flames. Not for the delicate. 8 p.m. $5 plus 2 drink minimum. Comedy Revival, Comedy Store Belly Room, 8433 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (323) 656-6225. thecomedystore.com.

And some urine. I had some filed in there.

Tig has friends

Wednesday, October 8 I first discovered Joe Frank somewhere on my stereo dial when I was a motel night manager, age 23, stuck in my onsite apartment six nights a week, with his aural creations and Southern Comfort for company. A radio genius known for his darkly comic monologues and skits layered over music, he’s inspired the likes of David Sedaris and Ira Glass, while Southern Comfort has mostly just inspired some of my poorer decisions. 8:30 p.m. $30. Largo @ the Coronet, 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., L.A., (310) 855-0350. largo-la.com.

And that was the year that you dropped out of high school. I think I was in the fifth grade. You portray Officer Tig on The Sarah Silverman Program. How did you start working with Sarah? It was a really intense audition process of becoming her friend. She and I met at a comedy club and she got my phone number seven years ago. And it was a lot of lunches and hikes and hanging out. It was a loooong process. Then, seven years later, she offered me the role. Luckily this part was named “Tig” so everything fell into place.

Wednesday, October 15 I loved John C. Reilly in Magnolia. Loved him in Chicago. And man, did Walk Hard make me laugh more than any movie I’ve seen in years. Reilly’s Variety with John C. Reilly sounds good to me for those reasons alone. 8:30 p.m. $30. Largo @ the Coronet. Sunday, October 19 Rumored Andy Kaufman alter-ego Tony Clifton, a tone-deaf lounge singer with a penchant for verbal and physical assaults on audience members, appears at HOB with his “Katrina Kiss My Ass” orchestra. The show will benefit Gulf Coast musicians affected by that hurricane. Clifton’s act was the best part of HOB’s Andy Kaufman: Dead or Alive? show I caught in 2004. Sure, it’s got to be Kaufman collaborator Bob Zmuda under the wig he and Andy once took turns wearing, but who cares what the mall Santa’s real name is? $30-$47.50. doors 7:30, show 8:30 p.m. House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., WeHo, (323) 848.5100. hob.com. Friday, October 24 Just in time for the election, this month’s Soapboxing show is themed Surviving Another 4 years of Republicans and features guest therapists, videos of puppies, an immigration officer from the French consulate, and world class standup headliners: Jimmy Dore, David Feldman, Tom Kenny, Rick Overton, Cathy Ladman and a final appearance from Dick Cheney’s heart. 9 p.m. $10. The Fake Gallery, 4319 Melrose Ave, L.A., (323) 644-4946. fakedotcom.com. Sunday, October 26 Every time I head to Channel101.com to check out the latest, greatest short comedy vids on the net, I’m afraid that because it’s so good, it will somehow have been cancelled by some damn TV executive in the sky. Created by Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, kept alive by the talent of whoever’s good enough to make the cut, the no-budget, short video “network” sends up every cliche of which television and filmdom have ever been guilty, while breaking new ground of its own. This month’s competition: Halloween-themed. Screenings: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. Free, but table reservations require dinner purchase. Cinespace, 6356 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd Floor, L.A., (323) 817-FILM. Thursday, October 30 Hilarious eccentric Duncan Trussel recruits a few standup cronies for Comedy Is Dead (Vance Sanders is twirling in his Brewco) at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Last month’s shindig threw hipster comedy fans into a tizzy trying to figure out how to work this and the Paul F. Tompkins roast into the same night. With Trussell, Natasha Leggero, and Matt Dwyer. 8 p.m. $10. Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. For reservations, e-mail contact info to comedyisdead@gmail.com. Friday, October 31 Years ago, I saw Mystery Science Theater 3000 alum Frank Conniff at a Culver City coffeehouse, performing a ridiculous character he called “Crazy Tomato Face” that had patrons roaring. Eddie Pepitone I caught a spell later, at a theater, pleading from the onstage microphone to kidnappers to return his son – just in case the kidnappers happened to be at that particular show. The two masters host the scariest Fake show ever. 9 p.m. $10. The Fake Gallery. --Tom Sharpe

You told me a story once about a time you stayed overnight at a friend’s house. Oh, my God. So, of course, I have to go through the horrible embarrassment of having to explain that I wet their bed. And if that wasn’t horrifying enough, I was outside playing later that day and they had taken the mattress out of the house, to air out on their back porch. While I was trying to play, my shame was holding me down.

Beauty School Dropout Tig Notaro’s advice for the wayward By Tom Sharpe

ffstage, Tig Notaro is loved by fellow comics for the way she combines deadpan mock seriousness with a panoply of characters and sound effects injected into conversation. One minute she’s giving singing lessons by earnestly singing terribly off-key scales, the next she’s making a donkey noise, or slipping on a pair of glasses to portray a persnickety soul she calls “Lezbrarian.” Onstage, on The Sarah Silverman Program, it’s pretty much her in a holster, portraying someone named “Tig.” I called her on her cell to ask about an interview and she told me she was about to step onstage in New York. We caught up the next morning. L.A. CityBeat: Hello Tig, What are you doing in New York? Tig Notaro: Hello, Tom. I’m doing the Eugene Mirman comedy festival. Well, that about wraps it up. Did you always know you wanted to do comedy? I always knew I did. I just didn’t think it was something that was an option for me. I thought that Paula Poundstone got to do it, and Roseanne. Didn’t you drop out of school at an early age? I failed eighth grade twice. I failed ninth grade and then I dropped out. So it wasn’t like I was 12 and out on the street smoking cigarettes. I was 17.

What did you do when you were 17, then? What was the plan? Just to smoke cigarettes. This always fascinated me, because you strike me as very intelligent – why did you drop out? I was just so not interested. I felt absolutely crazy every day in class. I knew that running in the hall and chewing gum were not going to make a difference in what I wanted to do. We’ve talked before about a common experience we had as kids. As a child you were an aggressive, well, an aggressive bed wetter. Yes. But it didn’t stop at beds. It was pants, it was carpets that I was sitting on, it was swimming pools, it was anything. If it was there, I was going to wet it. You were ambitious. I think it’s so funny – that distance from things that were so scary to you as a kid and now. Now as an adult, it’s my job to let everyone know my secrets I was trying to keep. It’s unbelievable that I will actually sit onstage and tell people that I had a greasy bowl haircut and I hated to take baths and I wet my pants and reeked of urine and carried a briefcase when I was 9. What was in the briefcase, school supplies? My school supplies. Some Star Wars

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How would you describe Officer Tig? I think it might just be me with a holster on. Tell me about your monthly show at Largo. If I have somebody on the show, I might talk with them, it might be a straight-ahead standup show, it’s kind of whatever. This last show, I interviewed Cheryl Hines from Curb Your Enthusiasm. And Sarah Silverman did a set. Tim Heidecker from Tim and Erik. And TJ Miller. Any other projects? I’ve been trying to develop something with Cheryl Hines. And then the ongoing Crackpot crusade: Wayne McClammy, he directed “I’m F*cking Matt Damon,” that Sarah thing, is attached to it. This is the Crackpot Comedy tour I quit after the first show and Martha Kelly kept doing? Yes, the idea is we go directly to the houses of the comedy fans. It’s doing shows in people’s living rooms, back yards, driveways, anywhere they’ll have us. We show up with a microphone and an amplifier 30 minutes before show time and it’s up to the people who are having it to promote it, get their friends to come. And you’ll be in The Sarah Silverman Program premiering ... It premieres Oct. 8. They’re putting it on right after the new South Park. And they’re showing the second episode on Oct. 9, which is a Thursday and the regular day Sarah’s show is going to be on. V Check the Largo website for upcoming dates: largo-la.com.

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he current economic disasters havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completely overshadowed the culture war barricades that rose in previous election years. Last Sunday, a band of right-wing ministers openly defied the tax codeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prohibition against endorsing candidates. Their chief issues: abortion rights and samesex marriage. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pray â&#x20AC;&#x201C; yes, brothers and sisters, pray â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that their actions will not only result in the loss of their tax-exempt status but will also help energize Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battle against the vicious Proposition 8, which would write anti-gay bigotry into the state Constitution. Meanwhile, on the same day that the ministers behaved in an awfully unChristlike manner, This Beautiful City opened at Center Theatre Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kirk Douglas Theatre, dramatizing a panorama of evangelical activity during the 2006 midterm election campaign â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all of it in Colorado Springs. The city is the home of James Dobsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Focus on the Family, as well as the New Life megachurch once operated by Ted Haggard, then-president of the National Association of Evangelicals. The Civilians â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the New York-based troupe that created This Beautiful City â&#x20AC;&#x201C; spent parts of 2006 interviewing a crosssection of Colorado Springs citizens about their experiences with the religious right. Two Civilians, Steve Cosson and Jim Lewis, converted excerpts from the material into sung lyrics and spoken text, resulting in a provocative, engaging docu-musical staged by Cosson. Fortunately for the dramatic arc, 2006 was the year Haggard crashed and burned, after being exposed as a meth abuser who frequently hired a male prostitute. Several of the characters speak about Haggardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fall, although apparently the Civilians didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to interview him. But his public comments to the media at the time of his collapse are briefly re-enacted, and a character who appears to be his wife sings a song about the importance of standing by her man, in what looks like a rare departure from the verisimilitude of almost-verbatim quotes. Actually, if the Civilians had been able to interview Haggard, their production might have become more conventional, about

one manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise and fall. Instead, it goes for breadth more than depth and offers glimpses of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;civiliansâ&#x20AC;? more than the generals. Two other churches get prolonged examinations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a black evangelical congregation whose minister shocked his flock by voluntarily coming out as gay before Haggard was exposed, and a small congregation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost literally underground, in that they take congregants into caves in order to fight the emissaries of evil. We also hear from individuals outside church settings. The most striking of these are a former civic designer who came out as a transsexual and lost her job, if not her faith, and the explosively angry veteran and father of a Jewish cadet at the nearby Air Force Academy who mounted a campaign against Christian proselytizing at the Academy. A woman who was truly saved from a loser life by her church affiliation offers a positive look at evangelicalism, while a local alternative newspaper editor (you know the type) offers amusing rumblings from the other side. But it might have been illuminating to have heard from at least one liberal churchgoer. After all, since 1891, a Unitarian Church has existed in downtown Colorado Springs, according to the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. Six actors (Emily Ackerman, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Brad Heberlee, Brandon Miller, Stephen Plunkett, Alison Weller) play many roles, including rangers in the nearby Rockies who periodically offer brief, metaphorical tips about how to stay safe while hiking. The transition between characters in different scenes confused me only once. Michael Friedmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs are often in the same rock/folk vein as that of his score for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, seen at the same theater last January. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re performed with enough conviction that you begin to see the appeal of Christian rock. But that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll join the choir. V

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for us to pretend later that we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spot her there in the back row and wonder why Michetti brought her back. A Noise Within, Glendale. (818) 240-0910. ANoiseWithin.org. In repertory; resumes Oct. 15, closes Dec. 7. Louie & Keely Live at the Sahara. This extraordinary bio-musical, about the postwar lounge duo that consisted of the jittery dervish Louis Prima (Jake Broder) and his deadpan-wielding wife Keely Smith (Vanessa Claire Smith), is now in a slightly larger venue than the Sacred Fools Theatre where it originated. Maybe because of the position of my seat in each of the venues, I felt as if I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the stage-left blocking as well as I could the first time. Still, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a minor matter, compared to the jazzy jolt of adrenalin that rules this show. The two primary actors wrote the show for themselves, but it gallops past the limitations of most showcases and star bios to become an exquisite evocation of the joys and the sorrows of a performanceobsessed life, staged by Jeremy Aldridge. The stars and Dennis Kayeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s onstage, seven-man band bring breathless revelations to 16 oft-heard standards. Matrix Theatre, Melrose district. (800) 838-3006. louiskeelyshow.com. Closes Oct. 26. 9 to 5. The 1980 movie with Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda is usually remembered as a feminist comedy, but it also was a caper comedy, and the elaborately plotted caper sequences donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work well in this stage musical adaptation. Although the story is still set in the original era, the musical adds an entire Parton score (in addition to the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jaunty title number), frenetic dance sequences, elaborate projections as well as sets, and a half-baked romance for the Tomlin character (now played by Allison Janney) with a younger accountant (Andy Karl). When the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slapsticky elements are not only retained but made even less credible, a lot of clutter gathers. Patricia Resnickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s script needs a heavy-duty dredge before the show moves to Broadway next year, and it might help if the office newbie (Stephanie J. Block) isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notably less competent than she was even in the movie. However, the casting and performances are excellent, including Megan Hilty in Partonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old role. Joe Mantello of Wicked fame directs, but Wicked was 9 to 5 times more imaginative and sophisticated than this show in its present state. Ahmanson Theatre, Music Center, downtown L.A. (213) 6282772. CenterTheatreGroup.org. Closes Oct. 19. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Don Shirley

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