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Papa Doug Manchester in Hollywood
Don: you're the film critic now? I hear Charade is playing at City Hall. You mentioned Michael Damian - born Michael Damian Weir. His family band The Weirz (six sisters and three brothers) had a song on the KGB radio "Homegrown" album in about 1975 and from their base in Oceanside's Henie Hills (they got kicked out of Bonsall) the Weirz played throughout Southern California and for a time were an opening act for big name performers at the Hollywood night clubs of the era. Michael had a hit record "Rock On," starred in the soap opera The Young and the Restless and starred on Broadway in the revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Beverly Hills Ninja and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 each cost $12-18 million to make and grossed in the low $30 millions. Hollywood has lots of movies where the numbers are reversed, and lots more with much, much lower budgets. When I consulted on DVD production I ran across something which said 95% of all completed feature-length films never made it to the movie theaters, instead going direct to cable, VHS (once upon a time), DVD and now such outlets as Netflix. I am sure Manchester's cameos were tied to some sort of investment in this area of the entertainment business: not enough investment to get a producer credit, but enough to get one-second of screen time. Although, now that I think about it, his investment may be acknowledged under the name of a corporation. You need to scan those credits again and look for something that sounds like a division of Papa Doug Enterprises, Inc.— July 17, 2013 8:16 p.m.
How corrupt is Congress? Here's an indication
Without commenting on the bill itself, I would point out that the House is controlled by Republicans and that "consumer groups, labor unions" pretty much never ever donate to or support Republicans and, in fact, work hard to maintain an adversarial relationship with Republicans. Big business donors though, do play both sides of the aisle, which is why that bill got a lot of support from House Democrats. I am sure that if you looked at just the Democrats who voted for this, you would find they did quite nicely in terms of donations from the yellow dog liberals controlling unions and other heavily-partisan constituencies. When I worked for elected officials I saw more than once that no matter how a Republican official voted on certain issues, those groups endorsements - and money - would always go to the Democrat opponent at election time. People help their friends when they have a chance, but if someone consistently treats you as a hated enemy you are not going to be kind to their agenda.— July 11, 2013 9:57 a.m.
San Diego city council surrenders in costly Catholic school case
Sad - there is so much ignorance and bigotry in the comments against this school. What they are doing is legal according to the always progressive city council, except for Gloria and Lightner who stuck by their convictions. Our always shining Emerald city council member apparently forgot about throwing down the gauntlet in 2011, "We shouldn't sit here and waive permanent rules of council because somebody wants to bully us in court. Bring it on."— February 18, 2013 6:27 a.m.
"Mayor Mo" stole $2 million from late husband's foundation
I was Executive Director and sole staff for the Coalition For Local Control, the group that brought together labor, the Sierra Club, the Chamber of Commerce and other strange bedfellows to challenge the takeover of SDG&E by Edison. I can tell you beyond saying she opposed the merger, Mayor Mo and her office did nothing to make the campaign successful and in fact were a bit of an obstacle with her insistence that we should spend precious resources on an advisory ballot measure that would not have affected the PUC decision one bit. We just had to ignore her on that one. Otherwise, she stayed aloof from the fray and was not really a player in that successful campaign. It's sad to see how life has transpired, but it didn't surprise me that she had become a recluse.— February 14, 2013 9:37 p.m.
So is Manchester negotiating to buy LA Times?
"...he could get his head handed to him taking over something like the Tribune Co." By whom? If you own the LA Times you automatically become a big fish. He certainly could not do any worse that Sam Zell did when he bankrupted the finances and culture of the Tribune Company.— February 12, 2013 10:22 a.m.
Call to overturn Supreme Court
This city council vote sounds like a solution in search of a problem: Obama beat Romney, Peters beat Bilbray, Filner beat DeMaio, etc., etc. Let's face the truth Don: Citizens United has about as much impact on elections as does Doug Manchester. The public employee unions now control California politics at all levels and any business caught supporting conservative causes will face a lynch mob. But Emerald's disingenuous crocodile tears make for a fun read.— December 4, 2012 8:02 p.m.
Copley foundation's steep fall from grace
It's "Copley" money and a Copley gave it away as he saw fit - gee what a shock! Maybe the READER publisher's foundation can pick up the slack..... :) Seriously Matt, articles like this come across as petty-minded class warfare inspired by jealously that someone you don't like was able to make contributions to the community.— November 25, 2012 8:45 a.m.
More Chula Vistans Gather to Fight Lake Pointe Project
"An environmentalist is someone who already owns a home with a view." Lee Taylor, County Supervisotr 1976— October 25, 2012 7:42 p.m.
UCAN: Misspelled Accounts Add Up
This whole scandal and potential fraud makes me wonder if the ratepayers really got a good deal from Shames' representation to the PUC or was his goal merely to get enough concessions to guarantee him a good payday from intervenor fees? And you have to wonder did SDG&E know what Michael's breakpoint was and pad it's rate increase requests by the amount he'd seek to have them reduced? Were we effectively represented by UCAN or was it just a charade? When I see those misspelled accounts (and Shames posing as a member of the bar) it certainly suggests our intervenor was not guided by integrity and principle.— October 18, 2012 9:11 p.m.
We Opened the Bar
"Mojo has retired from hollerin' a few times before..." I listen to him several times a week on Sirius/XM satellite radio's Outlaw Country Channel, and he never stops hollerin', and even there exceeds his three MF quote on a regular basis.— September 6, 2012 8:38 a.m.