Wednesday, August 24, 2005
WHY L.A. SOMETIMES RULES
Last night I introduced Lindsey to the greatness that is Brian de Palma's Carlito's Way. If you've never seen it, it's Al Pacino playing a Puerto Rican gangster trying his goddamnest to reform. You never quite buy that Pacino's a Puerto Rican in it (especially since they surrounded him with actual Puerto Ricans) but he's so great in it that you don't care. So, yeah....great movie, even after the millionth viewing.
Today, we're driving around looking for something to do and after visiting Meltdown (and running into my pal Jim there) we head over to the new Target over on Santa Monica and La Brea. We like to aimlessly browse Target stores. So, there we are, walking around looking at various things made of plastic. I hear a playful, gruff voice around the corner. We walk around the corner and, lo and fucking behold, there's Al Pacino pushing a cart with a little girl in the kid's seat. A couple of weird things about this: A) Al Pacino shops at Target, B) he's about as tall as I am if not shorter, and C) he was dressed EXACTLY like he was in Carlito's Way. I've spent a lot of my downtime practically worshipping this guy in the Godfather films and And Justice For All and Heat and everything else and here he is buying back-to-school stuff or frying pans or whatever the hell at the local Target.
There was another guy there we recognized from TV and we even had an "oh, excuse me" exchange with him as we volleyed for aisle position. But he might as well have been the parking attendant after seeing Al Pa-fucking-cino.
That's why L.A. sometimes rules.
Last night I introduced Lindsey to the greatness that is Brian de Palma's Carlito's Way. If you've never seen it, it's Al Pacino playing a Puerto Rican gangster trying his goddamnest to reform. You never quite buy that Pacino's a Puerto Rican in it (especially since they surrounded him with actual Puerto Ricans) but he's so great in it that you don't care. So, yeah....great movie, even after the millionth viewing.
Today, we're driving around looking for something to do and after visiting Meltdown (and running into my pal Jim there) we head over to the new Target over on Santa Monica and La Brea. We like to aimlessly browse Target stores. So, there we are, walking around looking at various things made of plastic. I hear a playful, gruff voice around the corner. We walk around the corner and, lo and fucking behold, there's Al Pacino pushing a cart with a little girl in the kid's seat. A couple of weird things about this: A) Al Pacino shops at Target, B) he's about as tall as I am if not shorter, and C) he was dressed EXACTLY like he was in Carlito's Way. I've spent a lot of my downtime practically worshipping this guy in the Godfather films and And Justice For All and Heat and everything else and here he is buying back-to-school stuff or frying pans or whatever the hell at the local Target.
There was another guy there we recognized from TV and we even had an "oh, excuse me" exchange with him as we volleyed for aisle position. But he might as well have been the parking attendant after seeing Al Pa-fucking-cino.
That's why L.A. sometimes rules.
Comments:
Now...THAT...is definitely cool.
The only thing that could have made it even better was DeNiro walking past.
Of course, then you would have known you were on Candid Camera for sure.
The only thing that could have made it even better was DeNiro walking past.
Of course, then you would have known you were on Candid Camera for sure.
If DeNiro were there, then for sure the two of them are cat-and-mousing it inside the Target and eventually Pacino would have shot him. Then, having witnessed it, I would have died instantly and ascended into heaven where GoodFellas and Heat are on constant loop.
Man, the only famous people I meet around here are the guy who plays the toothbrush in the Listerine "superhero for your gums" commercials.
And I bet you don't even get those Listerine commercials in the US. Too bad. Yer missing out.
The toothbrush guy is actually pretty talented and deserves a wider following.
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And I bet you don't even get those Listerine commercials in the US. Too bad. Yer missing out.
The toothbrush guy is actually pretty talented and deserves a wider following.
