Kakki wrote: > I picked Shane up at his hotel in Santa Monica which just happened to be > right across the street from the famous McCabe's Guitar Shop! Since Les > Deux is closed Mondays I decided to head east on Sunset over to Dan Tana's > next to the Troubadour (and location of the tequila anaconda parking lot > memorialized in "Talk To Me" from DJRD). As soon as the valet took the car > we broke out the cameras and started taking shots of the parking lot and > driveway. The parking lot manager came over to us with a mildly alarmed > look and asked if he could help us. Shane told him we were shooting a > "celebrity site." The manager couldn't help but laugh and had a look like > he seen everything around there and this was just another one of those flaky > L.A. things ;-) > > Dan Tana's is a trip and Shane instantly fell in love with it. It's almost > like a neighborhood roadhouse for the local movie stars and industry people. > Two tiny dining rooms divided by the bar and kitchen. The standard red > leather booths and hundreds of miniature Chianti bottles hanging from the > ceiling. Yellowed restaurant reviews from about 30 years ago framed > everywhere. Framed Lakers shirts (Magic Johnson among others) hanging next > to delicate and faded Renoir type watercolors that looked a lot like early > Joni paintings. Definitely lived in and comfortably tattered with the > contrast of elegant waiters standing by in tuxes. We were seated in one of > the rooms where there were only six booths. As we settled in our > neighboring diners (including actor James Woods, football star Lamar Lathon, > and some actresses we couldn't identify) all looked over smiling and nodding > their heads at us like we were regulars. As each finished dining they would > go up and say goodbye to everyone else and shake hands or hug. The very > friendly Lamar and his girlfriend stopped by our booth and chatted for > awhile, too! I think it helped that Shane has a bit of a movie star look > himself and we secretly were cracking up that maybe they all thought they > knew us from some picture we did togather ;-) We had just too much fun > there! I know I shouldn't cut and paste so much of Kakki's message, but it was all too good to leave out! What a great time this would have been. The list of things that I want to do while I'm in the US in September is growing longer by the second, and I've decided that sleep is definitely very low on the agenda ........ Hell ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
