and the fringe benefits keep rolling in...

the bad thing about waking up late is that it means i get to work late. and if anything is at a premium around here, parking definitely ranks near the top.

now throw in the close proximity to Hollywood and movie studios. when 18 equipment trailers, a food truck, 3 police cars, a couple jags, mercedes, and escalades go to location to shoot near where you work, parking spaces become nonexistent alltogether.

At the La Salsa restaurant across the street from my office, Sony Pictures is currently producing the James L. Brooks film Spanglish, starring Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni, Anne Bancroft and Paz Vega.

Brief synopsis blatantly copy and pasted from this site i am linking to here: A beautiful native Mexican woman Flor (Paz Vega), the mother of an equally stunning twelve-year old girl, a golden child, becomes the housekeeper for an affluent Los Angeles family (Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni and Anne Bancroft). Of all the horrifying pitfalls she worried about in this new culture, Flor had never fathomed the peril of being truly embraced by an upscale American family."

I dunno about this one. I think Sandler's role is in a similar line to Punchdrunk Love in that it's shying away from the Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore pure unadulterated childish comedy and notsomuch a Wedding Singer or Big Daddy which was primarily comic with maybe a recognizable fragment of drama, but perhaps rather another Punchdrunkesque attempt at after doing movies more in his traditional sense like Mr. Deeds, The Hot Chick and Anger Management.

But it's good to see Tea Leoni doing something maybe worth watching again. She was my favorite hooker turned bad girl in Bad Boys and the hottest non profit lawyer in The Family Man.

In any case, as I was walking from my car to the office, I walked by one of the big trucks and scored some official movie set David Roasted & Salted Pumpkin Seeds. God Bless Los Angeles.
- posted by yeah...about that... @ 10:58 AM