Feel that just rattle. Rattle your bones. Shake the earth. It is Southern California. We're prone to earthquakes. Welcome. Thank you for tuning into the call sheet. I'm Keith Coogan. And we're joined here. Oh, Earl Skakel. I forgot my name. It happens all the time. Yeah, I mean, it's Hollywood, right? I have two names. What's the second one? Keith Mitchell is the real world. Meet space. I am a human being. I got to, like, have a driver's license. Kind of a name. And then Keith Coogan for the movie stuff. See, I want to have Michael as my middle name. Because I have a theory that you'll work a lot in this business if your middle name is Michael. Philip Michael Thomas. Anthony Michael Hall. Paul Michael Glazer. There was one other guy. Jan Michael Vinson. Jan Michael Vinson. Sure. I mean, you'll work a lot the first two years. And then you have a nice 20-year hiatus. Hold on. There's some sort of attack airplane mode. Oh, see, on iPhone, that's nice. You airplane mode and you don't interfere with the microphone. Sorry about that, people. Technical issue. DroidX, Verizon. See, these things. Did you ever think you'd be watching Bridge Over the River Kwai on your phone, in your hand? It's unbelievable. I mean, from, like, my first cell phone looked like a fax machine. I mean, it was gigantic. Because I saw Miami Vice. I'm like, that's the phone I want. The Tubbs and the Testarossa. He would pick up, like, this monstrous phone. You could cook a grilled cheese just by calling Guam. I mean, the digits look like an iPad, you know. It's amazing. Technology is amazing. It is. And I think that the, I don't think people really do watch whole movies on Netflix on their phone. Even when they're on the phone. Even with the new, you know, fancy phones. It's just the feeling that they can't. Oh, yeah, I'm good. Long line, something's going on. I could always whip this up. Do they? I mean, it's such a busy world. So, do we really? I mean, I would get a headache. I know you can watch porn on your phone. Who wants to watch that? Other than me. What's going on on the bathroom stalls at work? You know, what's going on? Ooh, in that McDonald's bathroom. That guy on his phone doing something funny. Well, yeah. That's the thing. I was at the gym the other night. And it's like, wow. What if some pervert's in here with his iPhone? He could take pictures of all of us naked dudes. And I'm sure airport stalls. You're not naked working out. This is like after showering or some crap like that, right? Well, I go in the locker room in a hazmat suit at my gym. I mean, it's real gross. And I go in the steam room. I go in my shoes, shorts. I go topless because it's hot in there. And the things I see at my gym are out of control. I won't mention which gym it is. That's a good show. Reality show people. Even scripted television. The gym. Well, there was that one sitcom that was on... See, I'm old enough to call Channel 5 when it was Channel 5. It was a show about the gym. And it... I think it got canceled right after the second commercial break. It was pretty... It was called Muscle. I don't know who was in it. But it was horrible. You know? Real bad. I mean, I'm talking Viva Laughlin bad. Poor Hugh Jackman, boy. Whoops. Bad? Remember Whoops? Oh, yeah. I mean... Muscle might be one of the worst sitcoms ever. It's top five. Sure. Sure. Oh, no. There have been bad attempts. And thankfully, they do cancel them quick. And they don't linger. See, I think they should let them linger. Like, I was obsessed with that show on ABC a couple years ago called Blind Justice. And Ron Eldred was the star. And he's a very good actor. And it was a show about a... Slightly unbelievable. He was a blind cop in New York who still got to carry his gun. Stephen Bochco. I mean, he don't put... He didn't put much stink out there. And the episode when the crook stole his guide dog brought tears to my eyes. Because you just heard the dog yelping off screen. And this is before Michael Vick's stuff happened. And it was just so... I cried. Then they canceled it the next week. Good shows. That... The Riches. They canceled that too early. There was more... Yeah. Way more story to tell. And cheated all the fans. And mumbled about a movie to wrap it up. We'll wrap everything up with a two-hour special. And it was just, you know, ignored. It's like this great beginning and a kind of a middle. And you're getting interested and yanked. Well, it was like that... I mean, there's so many examples. But that one show on NBC, it was called Heist. And it was only six episodes. And basically, it was the whole season was about this bank heist in Beverly Hills. They air the first five. Moderate ratings. And then they just canceled it. I mean, why not just show how this show ended? You got one episode. I mean... Or one... Yeah, one episode. You couldn't just give us that? They'll dump it at like three in the morning. Or put it on Friday nights. That's the kiss of death. Yeah. Or Saturday at eight, which is when the call sheet is live on skidrowstudio.com. Skidrow Studios. Sorry. Plural. The number to call in. It's being brought to you by Jeremy. 1-800-893-9562. Call in with any questions for legend Keith Kogan. I'm just a ham and egger. Keith's done it all in the business. Oh, I'm ham. I'm like soy. It's not even egg. There's not even enough protein or meat in there to really... No, I really do feel like I got a lot to learn from people like Paul Newman. Look how he went from young, you know, sexy. And exciting. And aged. Probably the model for aging graciously as a man in the business. As any man could do. Oh, yeah. I mean, of course, my favorite Paul Newman movie being a hockey fan is Slapshot. And he was old then. Like, but he's still... You know, some guys keep it together. He did Towering Inferno. With OJ. Yeah. OJ's finest work outside of a double murder. Allegedly. Oh, right. I'm sorry. I mean, yeah, his blood was everywhere but in his own body. But it's possible. Did Paul Newman ever have any Hollywood shenanigan meltdowns that anyone knows of? Any arrests? Or was he political? Was there anything that, you know, I can't think of anything that stood out from just the work and maybe press for the work. Well, you know, he was probably lucky that he grew up in his prime in the non-TMZ world of the 70s and 80s. And, you know, he probably did. But I think back then there was a certain amount of rapport with the press. And I'm sure he got caught with an underage starlet or doing something he shouldn't have been doing. But it's like, hey, that's Paul Newman. He just married her for like 40 years. Yeah. No Harvey Levin with his band of rat pack paparazzis. I mean, they have those guys everywhere. So now it's... You can't do anything without... I see the bus, the actual bus from town to town driving around LA. Oh, yeah. Pointing out the spots. And it's really small. It's not one of those big tour, Hollywood tour buses. It's like little van. I actually was asked to be one of the tour guides. But it's not my thing. Try it. I'm sure you know enough about the town driving around. You're like, no, no, no. Hang a left. Hang a left on Ivar. Let me show you this. Well, yeah. I mean, I should just get my own bus. Who needs TMZ? I'll give people a real tour. Hey, this is where I went to a party up at Rupert Murdoch's kid's house and saw a gangbang. I've been to a lot of uncomfortable moments. Right now is an uncomfortable moment with what you just said? Really? Yeah, it was crazy. I had to leave. Oh, wow. I mean, it was one of his kid's house. And Bel Air. This place was so big, we were in the pool house. And I thought this was the main house. I mean, this was the most amazing pool house I've ever seen. And then people started showing up and girls started doing whatever. And then, you know, it takes a lot for me to leave a room. And I left that. I think this is in my scene. Right. I mean, not in that. Number. Maybe if the numbers were a little less. There was some... This wasn't my scene. I left. Sure. So, thank God TMZ wasn't around back then. This was the mid-90s. Imagine some of the things that have happened in these hills since the 20s, 30s. Just... Yeah. I mean, just... I mean, you've probably been privy to some pretty wacky parties. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would say anything that goes on at like a Greek institution, frat house, you know, on or off campus kind of a thing for four years, these people, you know, drain their brain cells with acute alcoholism and other things. God knows how they study and, you know, pass and make their scholarships. I wouldn't say I've seen anything in Hollywood myself much worse than you'd see there. Is that vague enough? Oh, absolutely. Good. No names. No one's asking for names. No, no, no. We protect the guilty. No, good, fun parties and no, you know, you would have suspect just like in the, you know, episodes of Growing Pains or something. And Mike Seaver goes to the party with the girls with the shoulder pads and the Arizona, you know, like taupe colors. And they're at the party. And they're like, everyone's going to the bathroom. What's, you know, what's going on in the bathroom? They're doing coke in there. They're like, invite Mike in. Come on, Mike. Oh, that's a good episode. Yeah. Oh, I know. We really want to get life lessons from Kirk Cameron. No, but I have been peeing and, you know, literally, uh, Hey, yeah, I'm peeing. Would you like, you want to do some coke? That's, you know, sure. And I'm sure there's been a party. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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Yeah. anything just crazy on the on the drug sex oh everyone's an exhibitionist sure oh yeah you know that's in relationships don't you know you can't count uh on uh to act an actor an actress you know sticking together long or probably taking advantage of you know mutual press on something they just worked on and you know how long does that usually work out well you just can't do it there's too many temptations are there crazy people out there like uh rumored like colin farrell or jude law or like people that are just fucking getting tons of tail uh they they do it right you know they're not married they're just uh eternal playboys clooney he's the ultimate but these girls know what they're doing with him you know with him they know what he is he's not going to marry you probably and uh you know just enjoy his company uh before he uh tosses you out like a spoiled piece of salami he's probably got like a he meets you within 20 minutes and she's barely paying attention he's like i do have a rule like you know don't ever ask me to marry you but that's great we'll just move on yeah and they do and they did for months and it's in the press and one day beautiful by lake como and she goes hey you know about the marriage thing was that's it we're over i told you i told you once i don't want to you know get married and don't push it it seems like maybe they're the press always paints it that you know oh they pushed and they really wanted to get married he's like nope got that like get off of me feeling yeah george clooney doesn't want to get married i mean when it's just too much for him to turn down i mean i know if i'm getting a lot he's getting quadruple i'm just saying i'm getting a lot oh great i mean i do all right for non-celebrity i mean i have a great girlfriend now but you know back in the day i did all right for for a little tyke see all my friends were you know i was a sober driver so i'd get all the slobs and you know they need loving too i'm not afraid to admit it i have to uh admit and confess i've actually been you know designated driver as well and uh you know you're there and i have like a vehicle that can kind of take everybody and talk to the bartender and you're you know drinking your cokes and shooting your pool and playing your darts and there's a moment in you know i'm sure in comedy and and you know even in movies and tv there's always parties and rap parties and this is some sort of event you know oh it's the wardrobe's birthday we're going out tonight like what okay uh you know there's always these kinds of events and parties and everyone going crazy uh i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know it it it's fun and it's part of it in the social thing and people having to you know kind of mingle it's like we're it's like constantly having office parties really well and you know like in my case i'm the funny guy so that's uh i'll probably never get a girl strictly on my looks i'm not a bad looking dude but you know so you wait till that moment right after midnight between midnight and one bar changes uh yeah and if you're sober during that process when it happens it's fascinating it's just everything starts getting louder and bumpier and this is familiar and uh it you see the uh kind of change as the whole room takes over in this hive mind kind of rhythmic you know uh it it's it really is something to watch and i recommend it you know you go out regularly with your friends and everything try it one night and just watch uh collectively between midnight and midnight and one it's like witching hour oh well it's even worse between one and two that's when everyone starts pairing up and then there's inevitably a few who didn't get picked and then that's when you move in for the kill especially closer to two it's a real hornet's nest i i i was so horny at one point i wouldn't leave my house till like 115 i said all right i'll let the booze and coke settle in i'll just come in like a ninth inning and the a closer and the baseball and the whatever and i'm like ball game and you just slide right in hey how are you my name's earl you're so john nash with your uh game theory nice well you know i don't know if it's like this in every city but in you know the los angeles and hollywood and beverly hills bar scene you know you never want to get there before one i don't i mean i don't go to clubs anymore but you know oh okay well there was clubs uh in the 90s and they're still kicking there's still places like the dragonfly they're open and uh they used to do get here before 10 free drinks you know or you know from 9 to 10 it would be free drinks free repeating this free drinks like open bar literally to get people to start the club and uh you know you roll in you see the same collection of a few circles of friends at uh you know 9 15 hey what's up some of them are setting up or djing or in you know the band that's going on that night and uh the party starts yeah you never want to get there at eight or nine you know it's just four hours of waiting for various party favors to kick in there's just too much opportunity to get swooped on so that's why you know and the guys you know they're drunk or whatever so they're not thinking clearly so if you come to the club with a sober mind at 115 130 it's just it's like shooting fish in a barrel okay i i i accept your uh uh uh theory and what you know is that's uh what kind of uh girls it is the uh it did it you know had uh is it a one-night stand in that situation is it uh back then it was you know um you keep seeing people in the same social circles afterwards no the girls uh you know they wouldn't they would find other watering holes i i don't think that they uh wanted to be seen going back to the backstage bar in beverly hills every week you know because then you know people would be like hey that girl's get her you know i mean it's about respect you know so then you try and find the other bars are going to you know okay so you have options you know there's a plan you know it's like it's like a quarterback audibling you know you look over the line you know if you don't see what you like then you got to go for you know play b sometimes you could hit play g on any given night what is the situation in comedy clubs and where you have you been spending a lot of time and come that was one thing i noticed when uh my family was like working on uh acts and writing for we would write we you know and write for comics and spend a lot of time at these uh clubs it was tedious i'm honestly over and over i do you know are you in them all the time yeah yeah unless uh you know i'm doing a theater gig which is great i love that because it's just one show and you know when you go to say do a weekend at an improv and wherever texas you know you're there for three or four days doing you know five to could be as many as 10 shows that they're selling well but uh i don't really like hey you know it's a lot of con it's just a lot of time and just too much uh you know i'm sure when you were going to clubs you know you're seeing 20 comics at night and just they all kind of blend into the same you know so it's a very road like for comedy or a troop or a gang going on the road do you go with like the same kind of group of comics booked into this you know well i mean i've done all kinds of versions of the road you know the best is going out with rob schneider i mean that's just you know i've been with him for like two years and it's uh i didn't really realize how famous he was you know obviously i knew who he was but when you're i mean people just freak out they see him because he's kind of identifiable you know uh you know even when he's got a hat on and you know non-typical uh clothing that's rob schneider and they just it was and the crowds are great i mean even though you know like when we did modesto it was like a 2000 seat theater and it's just me and him and uh it's kind of intimidating because you walk out to that crowd and like when i go see kiss i don't care who the opening act is i'm there to see kiss so i know what they're all thinking how is that opening it's uh it's kind of a double-edged sword i mean it's the hottest crowd you'll ever be in front of because they're in a good mood they've paid a lot of money to see a celebrity and they're going to be in front of a lot of people and they're going to be in front of a lot of people and they're going to be in front of a lot of people and they're going to be in front of a lot of people and uh you know there's not many celebrities of his stature doing stand-up right now so it's especially when you play a place like say modesto or edmonton um you know which is kind of far up into canada you know celebrities don't go up there so if there's a unbelievable energy in the room and uh so they kind of look at me like okay who's this guy but uh you know usually it goes pretty well unlike a recent show our producer and i'm not sure if i'm going to be able to do it but i'm going to be able to do it uh me uh uh you know maybe not have uh the set i wanted to at a certain comedy club nearby our studios so what's the first joke goes well they get behind you you know sure and we're being uh beamed i guess from from a space that's uh i thought the uh i thought i was an airplane the number to call if you're listening live and if you've gone onto itunes or or stitcher there's a phenomenal amount of ways to share our show um if you go on skid row studios.com and you go and look at uh all there's great shows there's dozens of uh of shows and great programming a whole network here 24 7 for you to listen to um great music and uh tons of different themes and angles uh and all right here recorded in in downtown uh la which kind of is nothing's done in la it hasn't been for years this is the first i've lacc's here or uh the la theater company latc i've been here once or twice in the entire time i've ever lived in southern california worked on a commercial or two in the middle of the night in you know downtown but no one's ever downtown in la that's the big joke well i think they've really uh you know it's kind of a wacky area certain parts of downtown so i don't think anyone comes here unless you have to now they're cleaning it up because they want to clean it up and they're they don't want people to be afraid it's like a hip area now ever since staples center was built you know you want people to uh go to the hockey games and laker games and you know i i would if you can remember like post or pre-98 this area was kind of rough um and certainly around broadway it's not exactly homeby hills i don't think candy spelling will be shopping for a house around here but you can get good deal on gold down here though right a little more than gold as well okay i mean you go by the comedy club uh in downtown la it's like uh you know a modernized version of the wire down there i mean you got people working the corners and you know i've been offered crack you know xanax is a real big uh product you know and they just walk by it xanax i was on the fox lot the other day and someone offered me crack um he uh uh the skid row studios also has kumran report which is a great uh uh very topical show about uh existing down here and services to help and help people are making their way through it um so go to skid row studios.com and go to your favorite shows and you'll see share and it's got if it doesn't have every single thing you kind of are a part of and how you communicate and share with people it's got everybody's got it's got everybody's got it's got everybody's got it's got it's beautiful piece thank you jeremy for putting that together jeremy's the man thanks guys that's it that's all we get out of it sorry right out of here he's behind the scenes um and the number to call again jeremy what was that one eight hundred eight nine three nine five six two uh i had uh seen early morning amanda binds her dui how old is she old enough oh she's in her early 20s okay so she's of legal age to drink and drive but not both at the same time she had a cop and those West Hollywood cops if you've ever seen them they're all models they're all ripped they're the last people you want to have a run in with aren't they sheriffs West Hollywood hires out to sheriff big sheriffs I mean they're all like they kind of reminds me of the crew that were the terrorists in Die Hard all good looking guys you know I actually saw that whole thing when she walked out of the sheriff's department I was walking my dog Lois I have a little mutt and I saw it she looked a little haggard they had pictures of her at the police garage getting her car this morning they're like wearing the same thing she got arrested in rough night you know just have a designated driver how was there press at the release yeah I mean you know that's you know these paparazzis and TMZ and I think another one's called Radar Online that's like TMZ's competitor they just have sources everywhere I'm sure a sheriff called and said hey you know we're going to release her in the next 20 minutes you know I mean they have a full time guy at the comedy store just in case something happens that's his job is just to sit there and hope a famous comic is seen doing something they shouldn't be doing or a fight breaks out or something which happens a few times at the store a month probably I hear it's kind of a little more wild west as far as business goes than other clubs in town and that's perhaps part of its genius it's like I think everyone calls it an artist colony you know where it's like the improv and Laugh Factory and the Ice House in Pasadena they're more just comedy clubs come enjoy the show have dinner you know leave at the end of the night where the comedy store is enjoy the show and whatever else happens here take whatever else as to where your mind takes you now that's a good deal ladies and gentlemen so if you're out for entertainment perhaps not family entertainment try the comedy store on Sunset Boulevard just tell them Earl sent you and you'll be let in for free is that true? absolutely and I don't even perform there that much there's a nine drink minimum? no absolutely and the drinks are stiff the great bartenders at the store they really because they're all comics so they really if you're looking for a stiff drink definitely the comics comedy store will because some of the acts you have to watch toward the end of the night you want to be nice and plastered real nice and plastered thank you I feel like now like an invite to the magic castle like it's like oh please do it's very special thank you for sharing that with our Skid Row listeners and our Call Sheet fans and you must see the last act every night it's the same guy every night his name's Don Barris he does the warm up for Jimmy Cain and I'll see you next time Jimmy Kimmel it's just so funny to see him go from you know a Jimmy Kimmel warm up show which you have to be you know kind of clean because you're you know tourist and what not and you know it's a Disney show and you see that Don and then you see the late night Don and he's the only guy who could reign in the madness he'll get girls to come on stage take their tops off you know he's just got the most unbelievable mind control over people he could get people to do stuff they never thought they would do mind control over people it's unbelievable like a hypnotist act or like just just feeding into what people want to do anyway and yeah I mean he I mean there the things I've seen late night because of Don Don Barris yeah he's he made a cult movie called Windy City Heat which was a movie where they fooled this guy into thinking he was going to be a star in this action movie and it was basically a reality movie and this guy to this day still thinks and it was released I think it won beat out Napoleon Dynamite for best picture at Montreal Comedy Festival so it was it's a legitimate movie and you know just the fact that he could get this guy Perry to believe that he's an action star now he just his mind control is unbelievable he could get you naked on stage at the comedy store yeah I'm not going to give him the chance to try but that's it's possible gotta get way far away from Sunset Boulevard near two o'clock in the morning you'll get pulled over not necessarily at the comedy store because you're staying until five oh yeah most businesses close at two on the strip if you ever drive by the comedy store at three in the morning the lights will be on and you'll see a performer on stage most nights wow it's kind of like the good times oh absolutely it's all in good fun it's kind of like the Barnes Star Wars yeah you know it's just a lot of interesting characters and it's like an open call for a Jerry Springer show it's just when you go on the it's interesting to have a home like that because I can't think of many artists or troops in film and stuff to do with it yeah there's different stages there's Second City and there's improv and everyone you know there are I guess families in film you know what a studio that set we shot on once it's like you know for a sitcom sure you got the plot and you know the stage you've been on for seven years you know that's home and you've like already carved it up and written shit on the back of the flats and you know that's been there for there's a history to that but sometimes on film like on the road do you go to the theater? I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know You go to places you've never been and all you can do when you're at odd hours, just turn to the people you're with and create a little bubble of insanity and take L.A. with you and try to exist in Omaha. Because the locals there are so happy that you want to hang with them, that they'll show you around. Especially in Edmonton, it's a great setup because the nightclub, everything's in the mall in Edmonton. No one goes out. It's just the world's biggest mall is in Edmonton. Although the Mall of America in Minnesota, they argue. It's funny. They say they have more square footage than the Edmonton mall. I say, well, we have more stores. I mean, I walked around for two days. I didn't even cover half the mall. I mean, they have a water park there. They have a hockey rink. I mean, just unbelievable amount of stuff. But the nightclub is right across the way from the comedy club. So everyone goes over there. And the locals, if they see the comic who was just on stage in there, they're like, oh, my God. I mean, it's the closest thing I've ever felt to being like the Beatles being mobbed. I mean, girls grabbing your ass, guys grabbing your ass. Because they're just so excited that you want to hang out and that you don't have an attitude of, well, I'm from L.A. I'm not going to hang with people from Edmonton. So you definitely, the party follows you on the road. And I've never had drugs or drank in my life. It's still fun to be in that atmosphere. And I so congratulate you on that only because this town is crazy and filled with it, honestly. I mean, we've seen it time and time and time again. And that's only the ones we know about. Oh, yeah. But I've never felt tempted. That's the weird thing. I'm around it probably every night. But I just, you know, I don't think you have to do that stuff to have a good time. It's still fun to go to the parties I go to. You know, the clubs and the situations I'm in, I've never once felt, God, I wonder what that's like. I'm probably too scared I'd like it. Like energy drinks are my drug, like we've discussed before. And if I did cocaine like I did energy drinks, I probably wouldn't be on this show right now. I'd be buried. I haven't talked about the new update on the Whitney Houston reveal of the autopsy. And the 0.05 milligrams per milliliter of whatever that means. Cocaine in the system and taken from an injector, you know, in her leg. They removed some blood and measured this. She was found, terrible to say, and her family, I'm so sorry, but it was news. And, you know, I want to talk about it. She was found face down in the tub. I didn't know. I didn't know that before. And I was presumed. When I fall asleep in the tub, it's always just, you know, lying at least face up. How do you wind up face down? Do you slip and fall? Or do you, you know, any callers with more info on how, what happened to Whitney? But that, ugh. Yeah, I mean, I don't even know how you get in that position. And I don't know how you drown in a bathtub. I mean, it's a bathtub. You should be able, even if you're high on the devil's dandruff, you should just be able to put your arm up and, like, you know, give yourself a little, it's not like it's the ocean or a deep pool. It's a bathtub. There's only one person who shouldn't drown in a bathtub. Was it her heart? Didn't they say it was the heart attack? Or there was a heart attack? Was it, how did she die? Like cardiac arrest or? I guess. Yeah, I don't know. Her assistant had found, her personal assistant had found the body. I mean, that's a great assistant. I'd really feel comfortable with that person. Who found Elvis? Probably the guy bringing him the next peanut butter and banana sandwich. I mean, he loved to pound those sandwiches. So sad. It was like one of my memories as a kid, his last concert. You know, watching that on television. You know, I knew he was out of shape when he was, like, sweating, walking up to the mic for the first song. I mean, he was drenched. Oh, man. He's wearing drapes. He's wearing all this. Evil Knievel jumpsuit. Momo, Momo. I mean, you know, he used to live right below us. I used to, as a kid, see him running around his pool with all these hot girls. We lived up in Bel Air. Not every comic comes from a filthy, poor background. I had not presumed. And they had. I always presumed kind of middle-of-the-road suburbia, class clown, kind of an origin for a lot of comics. But that's my presumption. Yeah, no, I mean, you know, I guess no one's ever done a study. I mean, I'm sure a good amount of comics have come from varying backgrounds. But I don't think you heard too many people say that they grew up in Bel Air. Bel Air, that's, yeah. But it was very lucky. For people listening, Bel Air is like Beverly Hills on steroids. Well, yeah, I mean, but the funny thing is my parents really, weren't wealthy. They just bought, my dad bought the house in like the mid-50s when Bel Air was, you know, really no better a neighborhood than, say, Culver City. And there was a Bel Air fire in the late 60s, or it might have been mid-60s before I was born, that literally wiped out every home in Bel Air but my dad's house. Because my dad had the sprinkler system. He was on the roof watering. Nothing was taking my dad's house down. So, you know, it was just luck. He had the only house left and then it grew up into what it is now. So, but we were like the Addams Family. You know, we definitely didn't fit in the neighborhood. Elvis was below you on the hill? Elvis was below us. OJ was like a block away. Sylvester Stallone when he was married, or I don't know if he was married to her, but Susan Anton, very tall, blonde actress. Who else? Kareem was our next-door neighbor. And he had a really cool house because it was, he was so tall. It was just circular. There were no corners in his house. And, you know, it was very strange. And he would jog in the neighborhood in dolphin shorts and nothing else. So it was like, you know, this is Bel Air in the 70s. There weren't a lot of brothers around. You know, now I'm sure a lot of rappers and basketball players are there. But, you know, this was like... I knew one kid that was a kid of somebody in the business and lived up in Bel Air. Kodak. Kodak Jones. And we'd go up and met Quincy Jones who was having a little light gathering of adults and the kids. And we're all like, you know, 17 to 18 or some 14 and 15. There were different ages. Like any kid even close to the business within three, five years was your friend. Oh, sure. And nothing, you know, sexual. Don't make it sexual. It wasn't like that. Just friends and... What was the other? The Wilson Phillips. There's the Bijou Phillips. Yeah. Whatever. Running in these kinds of crowds and going up to Bel Air. It was almost football field size property sometimes. And great, you know, estates on it. And then just the view, the view over LA. Oh, it's unbelievable. I mean, we grew up next to Dean Martin's home, which was, I think, Nicolas Cage bought it from him. I don't know if he owns it anymore. He's had some problems. Maybe you don't have four castles that you never like visit. But some of the homes, Johnny Carson's home, which is, I don't want to get too deep into the Bel Air geometry. It's on St. Cloud Road, which is just, that's where the heavy hitters are. I mean, we were only on Stone Canyon, which is like a nice area. But if you got a pad on St. Cloud Road, you got some fat money. That's like where the Beverly Hillbillies home is. And, you know, it's just, you know, there's a lot of money up in old money in Bel Air. So... I did the Malibu thing, but, you know, modest, tracked homes and not on the beach, you know, on the other side in the canyons or the hills, but low. It was close. You could quarter mile to the beach. You could walk and public school. Well, I mean, my brother lives in a trailer park in Malibu. It's crazy. You know, the Point Doom one or the... Yeah. Yeah? And it's, I think they're about, when you say trailer park, you think, you know, Jethro Bodine, you know. This is like four grand a month for a little trailer. It's crazy. You can go down to, what is that, like Bluffside or whatever the little road underneath the Point Doom and see where about 492 movies have been shot. Oh, sure. That beach is so familiar and recognizable instantly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can see that in like Leo Creo. You can always tell. You go, it's real Point Doom. Where the Karate Kid was filmed, you know, the little beach scene. The good one, not the one with Will Smith's kid. That's like the most disappointing thing when you're late night watching television and you see Karate Kid's on and you turn on, then you're gonna see Ralph Macchio and Zabka and it's like, you know, Jackie Chan and the kid. It's like, oh man, it's such a bummer. Same thing. Yeah. Same thing with the Bad News Bears. You wanna see little Tanner Boyle, not Billy Bob Thornton stumbling around. He did it justice, but there's nothing like the original. There's nothing like the original Bad News Bears. Well, I think we talked about it once before. Like, none of those kids were actors. So they were just being the kids. And like in the remake, you could tell that the kid playing Tanner was probably been to all these acting schools. And you know, it's like Tanner Boyle in 76, man. He kept it real. I don't know his name, but he was really good. Now, the original was madness. There was just tons of overlapping dialogue and the kids were just rapidly, three or four talking at the same time. And he's, Walter Matthau is brilliant. Oh yeah, you know. And just some of the racial lines that they used were just, you could never do those lines. And you know. We thought we were PC in the 90s. It has gotten much more PC. Oh, you watched those movies in the 70s where, I mean, Blazing Saddles is the obvious ultimate example. You couldn't make that movie today. You know, I mean, what was Escape from Alcatraz? You know, you had some pretty racially, today you'd have protests. That movie wouldn't be released because of some of the scenes with Clint Eastwood and the main black character. It involves some language that may not be appropriate anymore. It could also have to do with the power that comes with more stars making money of color and SAG pushes it, rewards production, giving whatever government provides and giving whatever government provides and giving whatever government provides and giving whatever government provides and giving whatever government provides and giving whatever government provides and giving whatever government provides and giving whatever government If, you know, you got a part in the guy's black, you hire black actors. If you hire someone without an arm, you get a break. Yeah, I mean, times have changed. But see, I like the movies back in the 70s more. There's no CGI. There's, you know, just acting. The deep. Now that was... Jacqueline Bessette. Yeah. The adventure films. I love Treasure. I love Treasure movies. Yeah. I mean, the Goonies. Jaws. Look at the first Jaws. I mean, if you look back now, if you watch Jaws now and you look at the shark, you go, that looks ridiculous because you're so used to seeing these, you know, million-dollar CGI sharks. But there's something about that rubber shark that's like, that looks real. That looks realer than, you know, whatever's... Isn't Twilight or... That's kind of the thing about War Horse. I have to say, Spielberg was still doing it the old way in War Horse. Right. And it was shot after shot of a thousand guys. You know, the trenches of World War I and just these storming, you know, scenes of onrushing and blood. Like, not... The quick cuts that you see in a lot of action movies or war movies. It wasn't... You couldn't, you know, not tell where you were. It was just a fluid... And just a sequence of these. Graciously. Over and over. And I just... I would see one of them, one of those shots. You just go, wow. Then another one. And there was no... There was, of course, CGI, I'm sure, and explosions and smoke and everything. But all those guys running around, you know, doing that. You're like, well, you're watching. You're like, no, no one... Doesn't look like even anyone's torn ankle or, you know, hurt themselves. That's something in my eye. Yeah, makeup. It's like what I was watching Enter the Dragon the other night with Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris in the Coliseum. And Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That was Game of Death. Oh, that was Game of Death. I apologize. That place. They had another very tall black man in Enter the Dragon. Didn't they? They have that trope. Jim Kelly. I got a real... I should have, you know... No one should have Jim Kelly's name. You have the Philodex there that's like... I knew who Aaron Eckhart was before. Right. Everybody else did. I just, I'm fascinated. I have like an elephant's memory for stuff I really enjoy. You don't drink or do drugs. So that's probably part of the reason. The 90s, I think I shot my memory through with Swiss, you know, like Swiss cheese. It was fun. You know, like nothing worse than college or anything. Yeah, you know, moderation. Yeah, I'm here. God, thank God. Yeah, a lot of... To some people. Thank God. Oh, Jesus. To everyone, man. Thanks. This show... I feel loved. You are loved. Look at the movies you've been in. I've been in one six years ago. You've been in a lot. All classics. Hiding Out. Great movie. Thank you. I'm being serious. I'm being humbling. I do want to promote possible upcoming midnight show. Showing. Not of Hiding Out. I think we're working on that. But like I said, De La Renta Studios closed under us. We were the last film released in the theaters by DEG, by De La Renta's company at that time. Like the one that had done King Kong. So up to like 87. Then they dissolved. And the other one was Crash Course. With Jay Leno and Shadow Stevens. Shadow Stevens. Like a 40-minute chase scene in it. I love Shadow Stevens. He was the Fred rated guy. You know, there was like Circuit City before. You know, Circuit City. Do these wacky commercials. So they bet on the two of them in an action comedy buddy movie. You know, I think Leno was also in that movie Going Ape with Tony Danza. Going Ape. Very intimate. Familiar with Going Ape. Yes. So what is this Midnight release of? Book of Love. Bob Shay's directorial debut. He also directed The Last Mimsy. But he's owner CEO of New Line Cinema. He brought Freddy to everybody's screens. And he had this passion work to do a period 50s movie. More Porky's than American Graffiti or Diner. And a Happy Days. And we had great fun doing it. It's kind of a cultish. He's like had a party every year after for a while. To give the running tally of how much he'd lost making the movie. Like I lost three million. Yay. And he'd be like I only lost a million and a half. Yay. That's the last I heard. So I don't know. Well, who knows. Hard to get a DVD. But they're going to do a Midnight. We're trying to get a print. And New Beverly Cinema on Beverly Boulevard just west of La Brea. The show nearly first run. If the director's tied to something pretty classic too. They'll do theme. They'll do high low. Right. The other night they did To Catch a Thief. And Hudson Hawk as a double feature. Hey, listen. I'm in. You tell me when and I'll. We're trying to get that going. Support your local theaters, people. It's an experience that. Once it goes a ways. It goes a ways. The only time you're going to be able to experience it is on like the outside of a cemetery wall. I mean, the group experience to watch a movie. You know, it takes real estate and seats. You know, on a nice screen and sound system. And that excuse me. Taco Bell. We have a caller in the 818. Thanks for calling. How can we help you? What's your order to go or here? I was just wondering if you guys could recommend like a good jack shack on. Van Ness Boulevard. A good what? Jack Shack. What's a jack shack? Like, you know, one of those theaters where you can go jerk off in a booth. Well, I mean, Keith, I don't know if you want to take this call. You know, I'm more familiar with Hollywood and, you know, the closure of what was the theater on Western. Remember that? I actually got in the mud. Deep Throat played there for like twenty twenty five years. Well, see, I thought you were talking about the tropics. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was the Tropicana, the bikini, the mud. Yeah, I think that's what you're talking. No. So you know more about the clubs than I do. What's with this Jack Shack question? No, I have no idea. I'm just a recent transplant. No, I mean, to Van Nuys. Well, you might want to drive. You might want to drive up and down Lancashire. They've got a few businesses that you might patronize, as well as the Studs Theater and Santa Monica and Gardner. You guys know the Tomcat is still open in West Hollywood. That's the Studs Theater. They renamed it. Oh, that's how far they take checks. I'm not real familiar with the purchase there. I'm assuming you wouldn't want to pay with a check. I think these types of establishments would probably be best off as cash only. No paper trail. Do you have another question? Maybe. Last time I was there, I saw Joe Rogan for what it's worth. Wait a minute. Didn't you call me? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Was that David Faustino? We got eight minutes left and David knows exactly where all the jack shacks are on Van Nuys. David, if you're out there, call. We got another guy you'd get you involved with. I've never heard a call to jack shack before. That's rude and crass and totally appropriate for the call sheet. Tales of the Bone Machine. Live. Friday night. Saturday. What fucking night is it? Saturday night. Eight o'clock. It's six minutes to go and all I got left is bully. Significantly a bully. Great documentary on bullying in schools and abuse these kids have to take. The atmosphere it's like growing up. I don't think adults have any idea what it's like to be a kid in school today. All kids are so mean. I was bullied in high school. I was totally bullied too. Not to one up you. No, no. I totally sucked. I was totally picked out small. I'm shoved in lockers, trash cans. Absolutely bullied. I mean, kids can be vicious, man. Your looks, your social life. You come from poor parents or even if you come from rich parents like a Tori Spelling. I'm sure she was bullied. We have a caller. Hello. What's up? Hey guys. Is this the lightning round? Yes, it is. What? All right, Jim. Nice to speak to you. Mega booyah. Can you tell me whether I should stay long on Goldman Sachs? You want to short that. What we're looking at is moving into natural resources. You want to focus on, of course, agriculture. We're going to do the corns. But we're also looking at precious metals. We want you to take a look at some copper. Copper is going to be absolutely rare. Once the EMP and the solar flares next year, actually at the December 2012, nobody knows about this, scientists do. But once that happens, only terrestrial hardwired. We're going to have to go back to steampunk. So copper is going to be the future. Thanks for your call. What is this? The Art Bell show now? Absolutely. Is this coast to coast? Is George Norrie next? It is. Was that a stock question? Absolutely. And we're happy to help you out. We're happy to help you out. We're happy to help you out. We're happy to help you out. We're happy to help you out. We're happy to help you out. We're happy to help you with anything here. That's the thing about Hollywood and being an actor. I don't know about, you know, comedy is very hard. I've never even tried stand-up. I'm chicken shit. But being an actor, you know a lot about, you know very little about a lot. You have a very thin knowledge. You're like, oh, I know about diving. Yeah, you've done it once or twice when you had an audition. Oh, horseback rider. And the rule is you're supposed to say yes. What the fuck they ask? We do duty? Mm-hmm. Whatever. Whatever. The rule is you're supposed to say yes. And if it's something you can't or have to decide between then and the shoot, you have time to learn it, study it, hire someone to train you to do it. Not necessarily. Not get very naked. Well, yeah. Or get a double or whatever. They have to work that out. So that's the one thing is you don't get to become a rocket scientist. Well, there are actresses that go to school. And how come you don't learn about, like you're hearing about James Franco going to college. But did you hear him become like a rocket scientist? Well, I imagine he didn't go for that long to achieve that status. But the girls do. They all go, oh, PhD in this. And I'm like, I got my master's in this. They got an education. Damn, I'm pissed. Well, it depends on what school they went to. Become a physical therapist. Assistant. I don't think that's too much school. That's a good job. Well, the nurses that got shot. Oh, that was so sad. At the nurse college, one year to be a nurse. And an ex-student came in, ran a shingle weapon, and said, everyone line up here, and just started mowing everybody down. They didn't give him a refund on his student loan thingy or whatever. He lost his shit. Well, it's like that guy who shot all those people in Oakland, speaking of bullying. He said he got sick of being made fun of for his haircut because of his speech. You know, he didn't speak real good English. And that's, you know, you got to be careful who you bully. You don't know what's going on in their house. Yeah. Now, bully is available to see to wider audiences because Harvey Weinstein stuck a gun to the MPAA's head. They got a huge, like, 600,000 petition going to, you know, anti-MPAA so that kids could see this movie about bullying that affects them. They wanted to rate it R. And they were like, could you do PG-13? That'll help a lot of kids that really need to see this. Finally, they had Intercedent. And he's like, make this happen. And they did. And they waived the 90-day waiting period so that other versions of a film aren't confused with what's currently out. That's the standard in MPAA. So we're waiving this so that you can create a PG-13 cut, mainly a scene on a bus where students are calling kids verbal. They're like, that language, we can't have that language. That's the one thing the MPAA parents trust. They're very happy with our job of keeping your kids safe from language and violence and sex. That's a good rock song, man. Language and violence and sex. Send it to Desmond Child and he'll write a song for Bon Jovi about it. I've learned that a steel horse I ride was his tour bus. I didn't put that together when I was growing up. Oh, I thought it was something else. Like a motorcycle or something? I thought he was talking about a certain body part. That makes no sense. This has been The Call Sheet with Heath Coogan, Earl Skakel, Thanks for coming out, Earl. Hey, it's an honor, man. I mean, this is great. Calling more guys, Facebook, Skid Row Studios, figure it out. Thanks for listening. Have a great night, everybody. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.