Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
#1Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:24am
"My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." -- David Mamet on Jeremy Piven's early departure from the cast of Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow'
#2re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:36amI LOVE LA.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#2re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:46am
LA loves D2!
And Ms. Zeta-Jones is free to stay away.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#3re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:50amWell, there goes her chance for another Oscar!
PEACE.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#4re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:51amWhat's to like about LA?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#5re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:52amWait a minute, she can stand to sleep with that withered old piece of plastic but she hates L. A.?
PEACE.
elphiesmagic
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/08
#6re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:53amCome on, Borstalboy - there's the weather, and...well, that's pretty much it.
Brian had sex, with a really dumb girl, now he's taking his friend Stewie, to get some ice cream, in his car.
#7re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:53amTo be fair, don't a lot of people hate LA? I know I would if I had to live there. I guess that's why I can't stand to watch the show Entourage.
"[Gore] was widely perceived as arrogant. If you know something, you're not smart. You're a smarty-pants. It's annoying. People get annoyed with your knowledge. It goes back to high school, to not doing your homework ... 'There's something I should know, I don't know why I should know it but someone knows it and I don't. So I'm going to have to make fun of him now.'"
-Sarah Vowell, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 11:59am
My feelings about LA are best and most accurately described by David Cross in "Shut Up You F**king Baby":
“The best/worst/best part of living in L.A. is the parade of delusion. They’re all gonna make it! They’re gonna be the next Drew Barrymore… the next Fred Durst or whatever marginally talented artist you can think of… About 13 of them will make it, maybe 14 if you count the woman who goes on Blind Date and then poses in Playboy.”
EVERYONE there is either part of the entertainment industry or wants to be a part of it. Or wanted to be a part of it, never were, and are now the most bitter people on the face of the planet. It's creepy.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Updated On: 7/17/08 at 11:59 AM
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#10re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:02pmDidn't AngActing just move there?
PEACE.
#11re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:09pm
yup DG, sigh......
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#12re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:21pm
George Carlin used to do a bit extolling all the virtues of NYC over LA - which ended with him saying that he still chose to live here because, "The sun goes down in my backyard."
#13re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:36pm
Why I love LA:
1. Well, yes, the weather
2. The museums - there are great collections all over town
3. The theater - no, it's not New York, but Center Theatre Group, The Geffen and the Pasadena Playhouse are terrific venues, and LA's equivalent of off-broadway is just as exciting, if not more so, than New York's. (go ahead, kill me for that.)
4. The food - there are restaurants that are the equal of New York and Paris. (Patina and Water Grill are two of my favorite restaurants in the world)
5. The pace is slower than New York, and that's a good thing
6. I have very good friends in LA, as well as family, whom I love and enjoy being with
I am not in "the industry" out there, and maybe that accounts for my affection for it. I am in the industry here in New York, and that is part of why I love New York as well. I consider both cities home.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#14re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 12:51pm
I don't know anyone who doesn't hate some things about LA. But many people make a good life there. (I'm referring to the greater Los Angeles area, which is really all the same city.)
The two worst things for me are the smog and the traffic. Sometimes you have to drive for two hours on the freeways just to meet friends and go out for dinner, after dinner it's two hours back and all that time you never leave the city.
In Boston two hours can take you to a variety of beautiful places outside of the city, beautiful old new England seaport towns, country villages, Cape Cod. Bostonians are lucky.
There is more to the LA area than the entertainment industry. There are some great universities. The California Institute of Technology. There are several major industries that have nothing to do with the entertainment industry.
My favorite large cities for living, working and/or visiting:
Vancouver, B.C.
Vilnius, Lithuania
London, England
Paris, France
Sevilla, Spain
I'll get to NYC in a few weeks 
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#15re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:04pm
From where I live, in just about the same amount of driving time, I can be:
- Standing with my feet in the Pacific Ocean
- Standing in the middle of the desert, surrounded by miles and miles of nothingness (which I LOVE)
- Standing in a small mountain village which could just as easily be in the Colorado Rockies.
- Standing in the central plaza of a great Performing Arts Center.
- Standing in front of any number of the world's greatest works of art.
- Standing in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland.
- Standing in verdant farmland amidst gently rolling hills.
- Standing at the Huntington Gardens, surrounded by perfect gardens, a wondrous art collection, and one of the world's best research libraries.
- And on and on and . . .
I don't think anywhere is perfect, and there are certainly some places I won't actively try to re-visit. It just doesn't make sense to me to demonize an entire area as any one thing - especially when it statistically so large. I suppose there's humor in over-arcing condemnation for satirical effect, but it doesn't really 'land' if it's not remotely based in the truth.
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#16re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:16pm
I don't think anywhere is perfect
That sums it up. Everywhere has it's advantages and disadvantages. Some people would question my choice of Vilnius, but for me it's great.
I should have mentioned some things I like about LA: the cultural environment. (Great museums, theatres, cinemas, art galleries, great variety of nice restaurants. Nice shops and markets.) A generally friendly social atmosphere (at least from what I saw). It's easy to meet people in LA. If I had to live in LA, I could make it work.
#17re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:17pm
- Standing in the central plaza of a great Performing Arts Center.
DG, are you talking about the Ahmanson, Kirk Douglas, etc.? I was there for the first time last week for the Drowsy Chaperone, and I loved that plaza area in the middle. There was some sort of festival going on with dancing and drinks and food. Looked exciting!
"My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." -- David Mamet on Jeremy Piven's early departure from the cast of Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow'
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#18re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:22pm
Exceed - yes, that's the one! They're just completing a major rehab on the Taper, so we're excited to get back in there. They also consider the Disney Concert Hall (which has about the best accoustics I've experienced in a major music performance space) as a part of the Center.
On many evenings, there are performances in each venue, and having dinner by the fountain before-hand while watching everyone arrive and feeling the excitement build is one of my favorite things to do. And it doesn't hurt that you can do that just about 365 days a year
#19re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:25pm
Yes, yes, yes, everybody there has a screenplay they've written.
But look on the bright side! If it gets into Eddie Murphy's hands, there's a pretty darn good chance he'll make the film.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#20re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:32pm
Yes, yes, yes, everybody there has a screenplay they've written.
But look on the bright side! If it gets into Eddie Murphy's hands, there's a pretty darn good chance he'll make the film.
Have you passed this information on to Austin? He is wasting his time in San Francisco!
PEACE.
#21re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:34pm
Could never live there; no one would accuse my Angeleno friends of being the cerebral type.
It's great to visit to get away from east coast seriousness but I can only take about 2 days of talk about the "in" new restaurant, A-list celebrity encounters and the latest lipo technique.
The thing is I'm acquainted with a few "certifiable morons" who are making a killing over there in the "personal wellness industry". One is an aromatherapy consultant/aerobics instructor who can barely light a candle unassisted.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#22re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:39pm
"talk about the "in" new restaurant, A-list celebrity encounters and the latest lipo technique."
That perfectly describes the daily conversations at the Skirball Canter and CalTech, just to name a couple.
You've got us all pegged!
I think I'll go now and wax the pool-boy.
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#23re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:45pm
"personal wellness industry"
I associate that with California in general. I don't pay too much attention to it, but one has to be careful. Some is marketing "new-age" etc. but some things are based on science rather than a vague spirituality. Unfortunately, it all sometimes gets mixed together.
An Eastern European take on that would be "Americans have it so good they have to invent new problems for themselves, - and then market the 'solutions'."
Updated On: 7/17/08 at 01:45 PM
#24re: Catherine Zeta-Jones Hates LA
Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:59pm
I think I'll go now and wax the pool-boy.
Not before you get your spray tan!
"My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." -- David Mamet on Jeremy Piven's early departure from the cast of Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow'
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