Archive for July, 2005

This is David Geffen’s house.

This is the coastal access way next door to David Geffen’s house.

David Geffen fought the California Coastal Commission for a long, long time (and spent lots of money) because he didn’t want to allow the unwashed masses like you and me access to the beach – an area that, according to [...]

In April of 2005, about 10 pm, a waiter named Eric Gelman was stabbed to death while walking to his car after getting off work at one of the restaurants in “The Grove” shopping center. Other than my initial “oh, that poor guy” I didn’t really think about it again. Sadly, that type of thing [...]

The 21 hour day

It’s my fault – I decided it would be a good idea to ‘double dip’ yesterday.
Well, not really a good idea, but the problem is that if you cancel on people or turn them down too often, they stop calling you.
This guy I work for a lot (who looks just like Shakespeare), called me Sunday [...]

The wrap party for “Danika” was last night at the “RokBar” in Hollywood.
Wrap parties are fun because you get to see everyone dressed up, relaxed and in a less stressful situation than at work. You also get a TON of good gossip about stuff that happened on set, and you get to see who’s been [...]

Stair Car
Originally uploaded by Peggy Archer.
My version of a celebrity sighting!
The infamous (for those of us who watch the show) Stair Car from “Arrested Development” – now painted yellow and riding a flatbed through Hollywood.

“Danika” Last Day

Today was our ‘load out’ day.
This is when we unload the truck, and inventory all of the equipment with the rental house to see what the L&D (Loss and Damage) is. Considering that the show was all location (we didn’t spend a huge amount of time on a stage, and the longest we were in [...]

“Danika” Day 15

Last shooting day of the movie. We were only in one set (a motel room), but it took every light we had in the truck. When the best boy told the producer that we had no more lights or cable (she’d asked him if there wasn’t something he could send back a day early), she [...]

“Danika” Day 14

Today was “old Hollywood Day” and a bunch of the AD’s and producers showed up in ties and nice clothes – when you look at those old pictures of sets, everyone had on nice shirts and ties, but I think it was because that day was “picture day” and the crew had to dress up. [...]

“Danika” Day 13

What a rotten day. I was late because I got lost trying to find the stage – it’s one I haven’t been to before, and I looked briefly at the call sheet, thought it was a place called Delfino (which I have been to), and went there. Oops. I had to call my boss to [...]

“Danika” Day 12

Today was our second (and last) day at the Uni lot. Still hot, still no golf cart (I unsuccessfully tried to find an unattended one with the keys still in it), so we’re stuck.
We had two units today, but no extra guys so we were all running around like crazy trying to light two sets [...]