L ONG BEACH’S REEL-ALITY: So far it’s been a pretty tough week for a simple Long Beach boy to keep a firm grip on reality. It’s difficult enough for us on most days – having a talking dog doesn’t make anything any easier – but this week it seems there’s been a larger Hollywood presence than usual, definitely more than is normal.

For one thing, it’s always weird to show up for a day at the plant here at the Arco Towers on Tuesday and find that it’s been transformed, as it seems to be every other week these days, into a cop shop for the surprise Fox TV hit “Prison Break.”

We’re lazy, but we are not police, so we don’t much cotton to having to take the ridge route into work to bypass the grips and the best boys and the miles of dolly tracks and assistant directors or whatever they call those people who have ponytails hanging out of the back of their ball caps, all working as one crack squad to maintain the illusion that this isn’t the building that we call home at all. No. It’s a gigantic, shiny po-lice station. How’s that supposed to help us stay grounded in the real world?

The “Prison Break”ers were down the street on Monday, at the Westin Hotel, which sports the grandest women’s bathroom in all the land that is Long Beach.

A few days ago, we heard that “Prison Break” location scouts were looking around Long Beach for a women’s bathroom commodious enough to use for a murder scene – big enough, that is, for a fake dead body plus all the gear required to film it – and the Westin, well, there’s your place. Something to keep in mind.
About as far removed from reality as it’s possible to get was what was going on Tuesday at rooftops of the various buildings that make up the landmark Lafayette in the East Village, and that was a promo trailer for what could turn into a pilot for what could become a TV series based on Clive Cussler’s series of books called “The Oregon Files.”

About as far removed from reality as it’s possible to get was what was going on Tuesday at rooftops of the various buildings that make up the landmark Lafayette in the East Village, and that was a promo trailer for what could turn into a pilot for what could become a TV series based on Clive Cussler’s series of books called “The Oregon Files.”

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far removed from reality as it’s possible to get was what was going on Tuesday at rooftops of the various buildings that make up the landmark Lafayette in the East Village, and that was a promo trailer for what could turn into a pilot for what could become a TV series based on Clive Cussler’s series of books called “The Oregon Files.”

About as far removed from reality as it’s possible to get was what was going on Tuesday at rooftops of the various buildings that make up the landmark Lafayette in the East Village, and that was a promo trailer for what could turn into a pilot for what could become a TV series based on Clive Cussler’s series of books called “The Oregon Files.”

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