I started watching a set of DVDs over the weekend that could send me down a serious rabbit hole -- the 1984-1986 TV series Riptide -- only because it was filmed literally in my back yard when I was living in Redondo Beach. I'm only 7 episodes in, with nearly 50 to go (once I acquire the third season set which is ridiculously hard to find and ridiculously pricey). But in those 7 episodes, which I've rewound and slo-mo'd and freeze-framed to an extent that would drive anyone else nuts, along with having the 1984 Redondo Beach / South Bay telephone directory right by my side, I have captured and re-learned more about my mid-1980s surroundings than I would have thought possible. For the South Bay, it ranks right up there with other notable L.A. filming location resources.
From DR George:QuoteI hate it when that happens...and it's happened to my neighbors on both sides! Vibes it doesn't happen to you, or to your neighbors again!
I hate it when that happens...and it's happened to my neighbors on both sides!
Bryan said we are very lucky to have covid instead of the flu as the flu has been very bad this year. I had read that.
Prepping away. I think I have the overture vignettes figured out.
Quote from: Jane on February 11, 2025, 01:32:48 PMQuote from: Laura on February 11, 2025, 11:23:15 AMI hope you feel better soon, Jane. That's the way it was when I tested positive. I'm sure since you had so many immunizations that you'll be ok. I remember being achy.I'm usually achy and this isn't much worse. It is more like a head cold with a somewhat sore throat and cough. The worst part is my headache. It was very bad most of the night.Sending you more healthy vibes, Jane.
Quote from: Laura on February 11, 2025, 11:23:15 AMI hope you feel better soon, Jane. That's the way it was when I tested positive. I'm sure since you had so many immunizations that you'll be ok. I remember being achy.I'm usually achy and this isn't much worse. It is more like a head cold with a somewhat sore throat and cough. The worst part is my headache. It was very bad most of the night.
I hope you feel better soon, Jane. That's the way it was when I tested positive. I'm sure since you had so many immunizations that you'll be ok. I remember being achy.
I really liked Cemetery Club on Broadway.
A regional production of The Cemetery Club is the only play I remember walking out of at intermission.
Just had to let one of our actresses go - she'd already missed one rehearsal due to food poisoning, but her single conflict suddenly turned into five days of missed rehearsals just as we're in run-throughs - not dealing with it this time. Trying to find a replacement right now.
I think she, like most young people, thought we'd just deal with it. Not this time. I'd rather have one less person in the show than deal with it, frankly.
Riptide was Stephen J. Cannell, post A-Team adventure crime fighter vibes like Hunter and Hardcastle and McCormick. Gotta have cool vehicles, in this case, a big, fat, pink helicopter. Then a nerdy guy with a robot to capture the kid audience. Definition of formulaic. It started kinda cool, but like A-Team, grew tiresome. It was that brand of comic book violence where nobody ever got killed in a gunfight. Perry King and Joe Penny. The slick but dark realism of Miami Vice kinda wiped this stuff off the map, eventually.
Just be sure to remove that name from the poster, BK.
