That can only mean one thing. Pee-Wee Herman is back in action! If you're going to be in Los Angeles starting January 12th, Paul Rubens (a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman) will be "live" on stage doing a newly-written stage play at the Club Nokia in downtown LA. He will reprise his longtime imp-child character, surrounded by all the friends from his TV show, and in most cases with the same actors who played them (Miss Yvonne, Chairy and others). Only Cowboy Curtis will have changed since original cast member Laurence Fishburne has moved on to bigger projects, such as starring on TV's "C.S.I." which pays slightly better than being Pee-Wee's sidekick. Promoters are hoping this leads to another Big Adventure, taking the stage show nationally and possibly into a new movie deal looking forward. Fishburne gave Pee Wee his approval to hire another actor play his part, but said "If there is a movie, I'll get my Jheri Curl out and I'll be there as Cowboy Curtis." So we have that to look forward to. I always liked silly humor and the Pee-Wee character, his show and movies, so if the new project take off I'm sure I'll pony-up for tickets to watch. When pressed for details of is-there-or-isn't there a movie coming, Pee-Wee just cocked his head to the side, raised his eyebrows and smiled "Is there something YOU know that I don't know?" In typical style, he added, "I hope the whole world, and people on the moon, and Mars and all over the universe get to see me, not just the people on Earth. I don't want to be limited to just Earth - how boring is THAT?!"
And you wonder what happened to us...
Shipments of Ford passenger vans arrive each month in Baltimore from a Ford plant in Turkey. Each time a shipment comes in, workers immediately rip out the non-driver seats and replace the side windows with steel. The reason, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report, is to avoid an expensive tariff on imported "delivery vans," which is 10 times the tariff on "passenger vans." Ford found it is much cheaper to re-fit the vehicles into passenger vans, rather than to acknowledge importing delivery vans from Turkey. Ironically, the 10-fold tariff was imposed in 1963, specifically to protect the U.S. auto industry from foreign imports. How's that working for you, Ford?
In November, researchers roaming the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness in a submarine looking for the legendary "Nessie" monster, reported finding hundreds of thousands of golf balls at the bottom, from popular use of the lake as a driving range. A recent Golf Association report said golf balls take somewhere between 100 and 1,000 years to decompose. There was another smaller batch of golf balls found about 75 yards to the left of the other stack. Those were attributed to a Loch Ness Monster Slice....
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