5 Things To Watch For At The Annie Awards

5 Things To Watch For At The Annie Awards

Carolyn Giardina
Nominees include "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Puss In Boots," "Rango"--and Gary Oldman.

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Venice Beach on TV: Pacific Blue

Venice Beach on TV: Pacific Blue

Someone has been putting a lot of episodes of the late 80′s to mid 90′s television show “Pacific Blue” up at YouTube. (Why the DOJ hasn’t arrested the owners of the USA based Google like they have the foreign owners of Megaupload for providing the same sort of content is … odd.) Anyway …

Pacific Blue used Venice as a location for many if not most of their episodes. You can skip around and check out various episodes by clicking here.

Check out this clip that features the newly opened Mercedes Grill on Washington in 1998:

Here is another “great” (cheesy) full episode that features “a former teen idol (Danny Bonaduce) who takes to robbing boardwalk stores with guests Susan Olsen, Adam West and Erik Estrada.

Fun stuff from back in the days when bad guys drove Porsche 914s as getaway vehicles, people still used payphones and Ocean Front Walk was not a total flea market. Venice is seen in part one and resumes in part 4 at 6:40 with the Pavillion in the background.

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Captain Jack Sparrow Ozzy Osbourne and Other Characters Get Into Hollywood Blvd. Brawl

Captain Jack Sparrow Ozzy Osbourne and Other Characters Get Into Hollywood Blvd. Brawl [UPDATED]

It was another rough and tumble night Thursday on the mean streets of Hollywood as performers dressed in costume outside the Kodak Theater became involved in a brawl. The fight involved a man dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise of films being pepper sprayed by another costumed character dressed as Catwoman. [ more › ]