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'Let me tell you about DeMille...'
A feature in the Washington Post Style section on the colorful inhabitants of the Motion Picture home in Woodland Hills reveals some tough rules. You must have worked in the biz for 20 years to get in, or be married to someone who did. If the spouse with credentials dies, you have to get out. The piece by Paul Farhi also plucks a canard about Oscar campaigns.
Any celebrity who visits the campus (recent drop-ins include Kevin Spacey, Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Bob Thornton, Ron Howard and Willem Dafoe) is immediately suspected in press accounts of canvassing residents for their Academy votes. It's a sexy angle, but a wild exaggeration. There are, after all, about 5,500 film professionals who determine for the Oscars each year. About 15 of them live at the Motion Picture home.
Average age is 85, and do they have stories to tell.
"Good morning, I'll be your aide today. Call me Lonewacko."
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at August 1, 2003 01:09 AM>my traffic infraction
>community service
You mean your DUI.
Posted by: Rita at July 18, 2004 09:34 AMComment posting has been turned off
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Some years ago my traffic infraction community service was for the org that administers the home. Community service of a star! I didn't visit the home however, I was assigned to accompany a few people destined for it on their daily rounds: doctor visits, supermarket, etc. It was more interesting than picking up trash.
Posted by: your friends at the Lonewacko Blog at July 31, 2003 11:26 PM