Monday, July 12, 2010

The boy next door

Up here in the true boonies known as Altadena live a celebrity or three.  Cobb Estate was once the stomping ground of Harpo Marx; Zane Grey toiled away on his manual typewriter.

But today you can spot a red-head with a forehead riven with deep wrinkles dropping by the Coffee Gallery on Lake.  Not impressed? Check him out in Hard Eight.  I frickin love this movie.  You've never seen Gwyneth Paltrow so gritty.  Watch the trailer here, see the movie, then get back to me.

6 comments:

  1. Did you read the recent New Yorker story that takes place at Waldorf School in Altadena? There's a JCR spotting in the story.

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  2. Thanks for the tip, Susan!
    Gee, the reader would never know where we think it's set--

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  3. PS- the more I read that story, the freakier it gets--eerie

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  4. I think Sandra Singh Loh's kids go to that school too.

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  5. Hard Eight looks like a frickin good movie. Can't wait to see it.

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  6. Okay! I'm sold. I'll add it to my Netflix queue.

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