I saw this in Brentwood, CA by a Peet’s Coffee Shop (which is actually where Mezzaluna, where Nicole Brown Simpson dined before OJ, I mean someone, killed her, used to reside) this past weekend:
If you’ve got over $100K for a Lamborghini, one would think you also have enough money to get another car on which to affix your bike rack. Ridiculous.
For a city that has only existed for about 100 years, there seems to be an inordinate amount of famous legal problems that have developed there. Skipping straight to the 60’s, we have: the Watts riots; rampant & gross corruption in their police department for years; the Rodney King trial, acquittal and subsequent riots; the OJ trial and its absurd verdict.
Now, here is yet another bit of ridiculousness: a celebrity named after the City of Lights, who was caught driving under the influence 3x, was sent to serve the rest of her sentence from home after only serving in jail 3 days of her 23 day sentence (which was reduced from 42 days due to overcrowding mind you). The reason she was sent home? She has an “unnamed” medical condition. Please note that the judge specifically spelled out during sentencing that this Euro-capital was not allowed to serve house detention. Also please note that nationwide, a third of all inmates have a medical condition and none of them are sent home. Rather, if they receive treatment at all, they go to a medical jail.
After I heard this news yesterday, to me, this is the final straw. LA is an absolute fucking joke. Like everything else in La-la Land, the rule of law is merely based on smoke and mirrors. I think their Supreme Court is probably just a movie set facade.
To put this in perspective, my father worked in the NYS Appellate court system for about 20 years. His goal was to try to get sentences reduced for Clients who received poor previous legal representation and who really didn’t deserve to be in jail for as long as they were sentenced. There were the guys who, while guilty, went away for 10 – 20 when they really should have only gone away for 3 – 5. He also fought for mentally retarded people who were in crime committing crews (they drove get-away cars, acted as look outs, etc) to try to get their sentences reduced as they for the most part really didn’t know what was going on. Keep in mind all of these clients admitted guilt and showed contrition. That being said, he won these types of cases once in a very blue moon, like one every other year.
That was New York. This is LA. A celebutard who could have killed someone’s son/daughter/mother/father on 3 different occasions by driving drunk received probation the first two times and was told simply “don’t drive.” While she has more than enough money to take a taxi everywhere, she continued to cruise around and pretended not to know what she was doing is wrong. She still has not shown remorse yet she received special, beneficial treatment that no other citizen in this country would receive, that is, unless you happen to be a US citizen living in LA.
The only positive I see here is that we have discovered new legal superheroes – the City of Light’s legal team. I have no clue how they were able to pull this off. It’s like they traveled faster than the speed of light. Maybe Sheriff Lee Baca got a hummer along with a two movie deal. It’s simply mind blowing (pun intended).
Last November, I flew out to LA for the weekend so that my dog Bingham could play with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s dog Jelly. Oh yeah, the human folk wanted to get together too. On Saturday night, Jessie, Amos, Ro and I were joined by Jaime and Michael, great friends of ours from NYC who had oddly enough planned a 7 day Cali vacation that started in LA at the same time we were there. So, before they left that smog filled city of sin to drive up the coast to hilly San Fran, we all went out to eat at Au Bar, a trendy spot off of the Sunset Strip.
Our waiter was named David and seemed like the most likable of fellows. Look how happy he looks below in a pic he took with us:
We all were in high spirits and decided to play a game where we tried to guess his age and where he was from. We were all totally wrong (he was 24 and from Kansas and we thought he was older and from either New Hampshire, Virginia, Michigan or Arizona). We were all right about why he was in Cali though: he was trying to break into the acting biz. He was in a really good mood that night becaues it was actually his last night. He informed us that he had earned a role in “Bobby”, a new movie about the RFK assassination, and was leaving his job as a waiter to concentrate on his part. It was a huge break for him as the movie is being produced and directed by Emilio Estevez and the cast is full of heavyweights: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Harry Belafonte, Emilio Estevez, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, Shia LaBeouf, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Martin Sheen and Christian Slater to name a few. He seemed to be really excited, kind of humbled and a wee bit nervous about his first foray as an actor.
The following is a transcript of our exchange (transcribed almost verbatim) after he dropped his bit of news on us:
Jeff: What role are you playing?
David: Sirhan Sirhan.
Jeff: Ha ha ha. That’s funny.
David takes orders from the others at the table.
(Jeff to Jessie: I wonder what he is really playing?)
(Jessie to Jeff: He already said.)
(Jeff to Jessie: Are you serious? I thought he was joking…)
Jeff: You are seriously Sirhan Sirhan?
David: Yes.
Jeff: You kill Kennedy?
David: Yes.
Jeff: Really?
David: Yes.
Jeff: Come on. You kill Kennedy?
David: Yes.
Jeff: You seem way too nice…
David: Nope, I do it.
Jeff: You kill Kennedy dressed as a waiter…
David: Yes.
Jeff: …and you are our waiter.
David: Yes.
Jeff: You kill Kennedy in a kitchen…
David: Yes
Jeff: … a the kitchen is right there (me pointing towards the nearby kitchen).
David: Yes.
Jeff: You kill Kennedy in California…
David: Yes.
Jeff: …and we are in California.
David: Yes.
Jeff: Hmmm. Are you good shot?
David: I need to practice for the part.
Jeff: Oh, good. That’s funny. Hey, are you on IMBD?
David: No, not yet. It’s funny that you ask. I check almost constantly but its probably going to be a while, only the big names are listed right now because they were in a Variety article about the movie a little while back.
Jeff: Well, when you get on IMDB, I’m going to post about this evening on my blog, I’ll link to your profile and I’ll send you an email about it. It’ll be your first bit of press.
David: Cool! Thanks!
Jeff: You’re welcome. I’ll also have another vodka tonic.
David: Sounds good.
The rest of the evening went along swimmingly. The food was good, the company was great and we all had a blast hanging out. Now, a little less than 5 months later, it seems that David has finally made it into the Internet Movie Database.
David: I hope this counts as the first article written about your burgeoning acting career. Good luck, I can’t wait to see the movie and if I don’t absolutely love it, please don’t shoot me. I’m sure its someone else’s fault…
Photo courtesy of Jaime and Michael