About a year ago, Kevin
Roderick, the
enlightened emperor of
the wonderful web
destination, LA
Observed, decided to ask
local writers to
contribute to a new
section called
Native
Intelligence. Why I was
among the chosen, I'll
never know, but hey --
I'm no fool.

Or maybe I am. Here are
my occasional
scribblings, from oldest
to newest. You decide.

HERE WE GO
LOOP-DE-LOOP

JUST ANOTHER THURSDAY

THOSE F**KS!

THE BIG VALLEY

FOR ALBERT AND GERDA

THE CIRCULAR FILES

STREET MUSIC #1

STREET MUSIC #2

FLUSHING MONEY DOWN
THE TOILET. REALLY.

THINKING ABOUT CATHY
SEIPP

HAIR DIE

THE NEXT BIG IDEA FOR
ME

THE SUBLIME SUBLIMINAL
 MYSTERIES SOLVED,
PART XXIV

IF EVER HE SHOULD
LEAVE US

PLEASE DON'T HIT ME!

POSTCARDS FROM
HOLLYWOOD

THE JUICE, THE WHOLE
JUICE AND NOTHING BUT
...

DAVID RENSIN: THIS DAY
IN HISTORY

EARTH ... CLUNK

EARTH ... CLAP
INTERVIEWS

Tim Allen
Karen Allen
Kirstie Alley
Roseanne and Tom Arnold
Loni Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Alec Baldwin
Bob Barker
Kim Basinger
Valerie Bertinelli
Barry Diller
David Blue
Steven Bochco
Bono and U2
Jackson Browne
Sandra Bullock
Sid Caesar
David Caruso
Rae Dawn Chong
George Clooney
Glenn Close
James Coburn
Joan Collins
Cindy Crawford
Catherine Crier
David Crosby
David Cross
Tom Cruise
Jamie Lee Curtis
Billy Crystal

Patti D'Arbanville
Geena Davis
Dana Delany
Rebecca DeMornay
Brian Dennehy
Laura Dern
Andrew Dice Clay
Ned Dohney
Mickey Dora
Robert Downey Jr
Julia Louis Dreyfus
Fred Dryer
The Eagles
Rupert Everett
Chris Farley
Craig Ferguson
Will Ferrell
Laurence Fishburne
Jenna Fisher
Heidi Fleiss
Dan Fogelberg
Michael J. Fox
Jeff Foxworthy
Dennis Franz
Janeanne Garofalo
Bill Gates (twice)
David Geffen
Richard Gere
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
John Goodman
Lou Gossett Jr.
Bryant Gumbel
Shelley Hack
Taylor Hackford
Larry Hagman
Woody Harrelson
David Hasselhoff
Rutger Hauer
Barbara Hershey
Charlton Heston
Paul Hogan
Dennis Hopper
David Horowitz
Ron Howard
Anjelica Huston
Lauren Hutton
Samuel L. Jackson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Scarlett Johanssen
Don Johnson
Raul Julia
Nicole Kidman
Larry King
Mark Knopfler
Samuel L. Jackson
Jack LaLanne
Diane Lane
John Larroquette
Ali Larter
Hugh Laurie
Lucy Lawless
Tea Leoni
Barry Levinson
Heather Lockler
Jon Lovitz

Bernie Mac
Shirley Maclaine
Michael Madsen
Bill Maher
Cindy Margolis
Julianna Margulies
Jackie Mason
Chris Matthews, MSNBC
Lorne Michaels
John Milius
Dennis Miller
Demi Moore
Martin Mull
Eddie Murphy
Graham Nash
Bob Newhart
Randy Newman
Jack Nicholson
Stevie Nicks
Leslie Nielsen
Ted Nugent
Bob Odenkirk
Lena Olin
Robert Palmer
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sean Penn
Matthew Perry
Tom Petty
Michelle Pfeiffer
River Phoenix
Joe Piscopo
Jeremy Piven
Maury Povich
Pricilla Presley
Sarah Purcell
Dennis Quaid
Harold Ramis
Tim Reid
Rob Reiner
Paul Reiser
Ivan Reitman
Julia Roberts
Chris Rock
Fred "Mr." Rogers
Kenny Rogers
David Lee Roth
Scott Rudin
Alan Rudolph
Kurt Russell
Jeri Ryan
Pat Sajak
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Martin Scorsese
Jerry Seinfeld
Garry Shandling
William Shatner
Charlie Sheen
Martin Short
Gene Simmons
John Singleton
Yakov Smirnoff
Wesley Snipes
Tom Snyder
Barry Sonnenfeld
John David Souther
Sissy Spacek
David Spade
Patrick Stewart
Jon Stewart
Ben Stiller
Patrick Swayze
Roberto Tagliopietro
Richard Thalheimer
Phillip Michael Thomas
Lea Thompson
Jennifer Tilly
Alex Trebek
Bob Uecker
Eddie Van Halen
Ken Wahl
Fred Ward
Sigourney Weaver
Fred Willard
Edy Williams
Brian Wilson
Debra Winger
James Woods
Yanni
Sean Young
WW2 hero Louis Zamperini


-- only a partial list. one day i'll get
around to the rest ... mostly musicians
CHECK OUT MY
20 QUESTIONS
INTERVIEWS AT
PLAYBOY.
CLICK LOGO.



Note: the link goes
to a pre-filtered
search for my stuff,
but somehow
Playboy has multiple
links to each
interview, not each
starting at the
beginning.

I've also done quite a
few long-form
Playboy Interviews
(with the three
pictures on the
opening page), but
the site doesn't seem
set up to access
those yet.

Patience.
MY
LA OBSERVED
COLUMNS