Today's grave
I visited a film set today that was located in a cemetery in Whittier, just east of Los Angeles.As there is a Forest Lawn franchise down the street from my house which uses various methods to attract future corpses, I spend a lot of time there, but today (of all days, exactly 14 years after my father was buried in Massachusetts) I saw a bone orchard that wasn't as rigorously art-directed as the Forest Lawn outfit.
In particular, the graves were very diverse. There were the traditional flat stones and crosses, but there were also new-fangled monuments with photographs etched into the stone. There were also more babies' graves than I have ever seen, some for children who hadn't lived a day. It might have also been that I hadn't registered that sort of thing before.
There was also this trendy item, resembling a small tree.
It was the first graveyard I've ever visited that was patrolled by an ice cream truck, or maybe two. I heard "Pop Goes the Weasel" for three hours straight. It was very peaceful.
It costs $2,400 a day to rent the cemetery and its chapel for filming. Members of a funeral procession and various mourners seemed surprised to see a 25-person production crew there.
"What happens if one of the family members of the person on whose grave your grip just placed his Gatorade comes by?"I asked the producer.
"We give him a cameo?" he replied.
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by Marty Barrett at Thursday, July 06, 2006
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I clicked the link to "various methods" and then had to look up "treacly." I find it ironic that "treacle" can either mean sugary sweet , or the antedote to poison. Touche, pussycat.
I don't know what point given the "touche" refers to, but by all means continue in the "pussycat" vein - I'm sure my wife would be intrigued.
it's an old tom-n-jerry reference to when jerry was teaching the little mouse how to swordfight against tom. obscure... sorry.
Damn! I hate when I have to make someone explain what I should already know. That was one of the few ones where Jerry actually spoke, right? And he said "Monsieur Pussycat"? I'd use the Internet to find out for sure, but I feel that would be morally wrong.
In any case, now I regret thinking you were coming on to me or my family, whoever you are.
Actually, it was the mouse pupil that spoke the line. Jerry never says a word in that episode. Why do we know this stuff?
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