Post #2 from the City of Angels and I’ve already doubled my entry total from the entire summer. I suppose there’s a bit more to say now that I’m a few hundred miles south of normal.
Hollywood Highlights of the Week:
- Spent half the weekend in my bikini, which has enough material for at least three swimsuits, apparently. Pool party in the Hollywood Hills on Saturday featured male bartenders - and 90% of the guests - in Speedos. Beach on Sunday featured lots of Europeans (I’ve fallen in with the LLM crowd); “kicking around” a soccer ball has a very different meaning in Brazil/England/Spain/Italy/France. Next time, I am bringing a baseball, a mitt, and a football - then we’ll see whose passes come up embarrassingly short.
- Star maps have been one-upped. Yesterday, I passed a Marguerite-sized Star Tours bus going 10 miles per hour on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, a speed which should be illegal when there’s no traffic.
- Speaking of traffic, I have yet to hit it. Once. I am waiting with baited breath for my luck to run out.
- Also on Sunset last night: two nearly-naked sumo wrestlers standing on the red carpet in front of a sushi restaurant in Hollywood. There was a long line of nearly-naked women, corralled by velvet rope and several huge bouncers, but spilling off the sidewalk all the same. At 8pm on a Monday night. Even if I’d wanted to drive by and check it out again, I couldn’t have: although there is no law against 10 mph on Sunset in Beverly Hills, there is one against driving by the same point twice in under an hour in the “No Cruising Zone” in Hollywood.
- Speaking of cruising in the hopes of celebrity sightings, still none that I’m aware of. Unless seeing Amos Lee in concert last night counts. Or if the woman working out next to me at Equinox today was, in fact, Diane Lane, not her dead-ringer.
- Pinkberry trips in the past 7 days: 4.
*For those of you in SF: Amos takes his Last Days at the Lodge tour to the Fillmore tonight. In keeping with his limited public disclosure, he doesn’t say much more than “thank you,” but he gives an amazing concert.
Until next time, Keep it loose, keep it tight.