I can't believe you get paid to do that

  I can’t believe you get paid to do that

1. Drink and smoke, in a room, full of topless women.                                                                                     2. Drink and smoke, in a room, with totally naked women.

3. Drink and smoke, in a room, with porn stars, while they were having sex.

4. Dance with a young pretty girl, aboard the “Queen Mary.” 

5. Go to the “House of Blues.”

6. Go to “Spago Hollywood,” and eat a really expensive dessert.                                                                       7. Visit the “Ambassador Hotel.”  (Where RFK was shot)

8. Go to the “Formosa Café.”  (L A Confidential)

9. Go to “Perino’s”  restaurant.  (Scarface)                                                                                                   10. Play on the Santa Monica Pier (The Core)

11. Go to the Great Western Forum

12. Watch the Laker girls dance, at the brand new Staples Center

13. Wave at a UFO, from the roof of Cal-Plaza 2  (Independence Day)

14. Spend the evening at the “Viper Room,” in Hollywood

15. Spend the evening at the “Whiskey a Go-Go,” in Hollywood

16. Spend the evening at the “Pantages” theatre, in Hollywood

17. Visit the Arboretum, in Arcadia

18. Spend the day at Union Station, in downtown Los Angeles

19. Spend 2 weeks at the “Spruce Goose” dome, in Long Beach

20. Play on the mountains, and the beach, at Point Mugu state park

21. Sleep on the sidewalk, in skid row, downtown Los Angeles

22. Spend a day at Macarthur Park

23. Spend a week with some space aliens, in East Los Angeles  

24. Spend a day at Hansen Dam Park

25. Visit Vasquez Rocks (Star Trek)

26. Lounge under a tree at Griffith Park

27. Spend the night in Echo Park

28. Tour Hollywood, several times

29. Tour the San Fernando valley, several times

30. Spend the day in Santa Clarita

31. Spend the day in Newhall

32. Go to Warner Bros. studios, many times

33. Visit ABC, CBS, and NBC.

34. Spend the day, and night, at Universal Studios, many times

35. Spend the day, and night at Paramount Studios

36. Go to culver studios, and do nothing

37. Go to Raleigh Studios, for a talk show

38. Go to MGM/Sony (Terminator 3)

39. Pay a visit to Fox Studios

40. Go inside a jail for women (Sybil Brand Institute)

41. Go to the Hustler bookstore, on Sunset Strip

42. Play bartender at the “Dirty Sanchez” bar  (Dodge ball)

43. Spend the day, and night in various places, up in the mountains, northeast of Los Angeles

44. Spend the day at Pyramid Lake

45. Go to the Beverly Hills hotel

46. Go to the “Bonaventure” hotel, in downtown Los Angeles

47. Visit LAX (Los Angeles International Airport)

48. Visit Ontario Airport

49. Visit John Wayne Airport

50. Go to the Wiltern theatre

51. Visit almost every theatre in downtown Los Angeles, whether open, or not

52. Go to the brand new, men’s central jail, before it opened  (Crash Dive)

53. Visit the Lincoln Heights jail

54. Shoot pool

55. Go bowling

56. Sit in a bar, and drink

57. Play at the beach

58. Watch Dodgers baseball, from just behind 3rd base, at Dodger Stadium

59. Watch concerts, of all kinds

60. See celebrities perform

61. Watch the Harlem Globetrotters, play basketball

62. Toss a Frisbee, all day

63. Visit Paradise Cove

64. Visit Arness Ranch

65. Spend a day at the mall  (Various, including the one used for “Commando”)

66. Visit an empty hospital

67. Go to the old Hughes Aircraft facility  (Independence Day)

68. Visit various high, and middle schools, in Los Angeles County

69. Go to the pyramid, at Cal-State, Long Beach

70. Visit the Los Angeles Convention Center  (Face/Off)

71. Go to the Grand Olympic Auditorium

72. Go to the L A Sports Arena

73. Watch basketball

74. Watch football

75. Run from gunfire

76. Run from explosions

77. Play cops, and robbers

78. Play Army

79. Play Cowboys, and Indians

80. Play football

81. Play cards

82. Gamble

83. Sleep

84. Eat

85. Ride in a Police car

86. Drive a Police car

87. Sit in a race car

88. Drive my car

89. Sit in my car

90. Sit in someone elses’car

91. Ride a bus

92. Sit on a bus, that was not moving

93. Be a passenger, on a fake plane

94. Go to Santa Anita racetrack

95. Ride a Ferris wheel

96. Go to Hollywood Park racetrack

97. Go to the Commerce Casino

98. Spend the night in the red line subway

99. Spend the day at Venice Beach

100. Go to Aaron Spelling’s house

101. Go to Dr. Dre’s house

102. Visit a lot of really expensive homes

103. Go to the castle in the Hollywood hills

104. Sit in church

105. Party in a church

106. Go to court

107. Go to jail

108. Spend a day, or 2, with a rock star

109. Play Doctor

110. Play Lawyer

111. Run from Demons

112. Go monster hunting

113. Carry a gun

114. Watch pro wrestling

115. Watch Bear wrestling

116. Watch dancing girls  (non nude)

117. Meet famous people

118. Get killed a lot

119. Go aboard a space ship

120. Go aboard an oil tanker 

121. Play walking wounded

122. Play walking dead (American Zombie)

123. Play a bad guy

124. Go shopping, for groceries

125. Watch Auto Racing 

126. Hang out on Hollywood Blvd.

127. Spend the night at the Los Angeles Coliseum

I left the Coliseum for last, in order to point out that when I worked there, none of the Los Angeles sports teams were playing there, because of earthquake damage, to the structure. It was not considered to be safe. It was ok, however, to let hundreds of extras, and a movie production company, into the same structure, to shoot a baseball movie. The film was titled “61*“ I could increase this list, but it is big enough. I really did get paid to participate, in all these different things, for various productions. Some I participated in, several different times. There really is no business like show business.