TV Oddities: Road Edition

Ok, so I am on the road in search of TV Oddities, right?...not really but I am currently in New Orleans...I passed by the homes of Brad Pitt and John Goodman so far...no sightings...and then it came...in my very Hotel (The Windsor Court)...they are filming a location TV show (Paul you ready for this)...the Jason Lee and DJ Qualls mega-Not-Hit...Memphis Beat...never saw the show but it seems like the tax credit is better here then in Memphis...no other place in the world looks like and feels like New Orleans..why not call it New Orleans Beat?...I guess to make Jason Lee act like Elvis they had to call it Memphis...any way for the next 2 days they will be filming all over here...haven't seen Brody yet...till next time

Jason Says: "FUCK YOU NEW ORLEANS"

Film Oddities: Pope of Greenwich Village, 1984

I am sitting here on a Sunday admiring a drink...that drink reminds me of a film, that combination reminds me of my youth and eating certain foods, being around certain people and enjoying my childhood. Early in the film Pope of Greenwich Village we see the beautiful Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts playing Italian-Americans hustling in the streets, dressing fancy and playing a little stick ball, eating an Italian Sandwich and drinking the drink I have in my hands, a Manhattan Special. This was a special drink of my youth, an iced espresso coffee soda. The song playing in the film is Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind". It is a perfect combination. Mickey Rourke was a god...this film is a snapshot, not really a gangster film, but a street film, as much as Mean Streets or Requiem for a Dream is. Charlie and Paulie in a film memory.