Fires Chase Celebs Off Sets, Into Hotels
TV Production Disrupted; Star-Studded Rehab Clinic Evacuated
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 24, 2007
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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis holds up a headline about the wildfires as she speaks at the California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women in Long Beach, Calif., Oct. 23, 2007. (AP)
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(AP) The rich and famous of Hollywood couldn't evade Southern California's devastating fires. Production on TV series has been disrupted and rafts of stars have traded their beachfront homes for shelter in posh hotels just outside the fire zone.
Kelsey Grammer was among those who fled Malibu, the celebrity-favored oceanfront town that also is home to Mel Gibson, Cher, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Aniston, Mel Brooks, Ryan O'Neal and more.
Grammer made light of the evacuation for the sake of his 6-year-old, Mason.
"My daughter was nervous in the beginning," he told the E! entertainment channel Monday. "I said, 'Oh, honey, it's nothing. Just relax. Come on, we're going to have some fun.' So she shined the flashlight around and we got out... We're safe. We got the dog, we got the kids."
His house remained untouched Tuesday, said his publicist, Stan Rosenfield.
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Shows affected by the fires include "NCIS" at CBS, "Big Shots" at ABC, and "24" at Fox. Potentially endangered: an inn owned by Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott and featured on their Oxygen show, "Tori & Dean: Inn Love."
"We evacuated Sunday morning before the order came because the conditions there were very frightening," Promises founder and CEO Richard Rogg told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "The power went out, the winds were blowing at hurricane force and you could see flames coming over the mountain top."
Rooms were booked for patients in an "upscale hotel" near the Promises facility in west Los Angeles, where staff members "regrouped and tried to keep the schedule going as normally as possible," Rogg said.
Promises, which said its Malibu facility was undamaged Tuesday, does not disclose patient names.
Malibu resident Jane Seymour was sweeping across the stage Monday on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" while her husband, actor-director James Keach, protected their house.
"The fire is close to our home, and there was a mandatory evacuation. My husband is illegally there, fighting the fire," Seymour told People magazine. She stayed focused on her performance "with great difficulty," she said.
"I actually decided to abandon my cell phone today. I told a friend if there's something I need to know, then let me know," said the actress, who is best known for her starring role on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
The couple's home was undamaged and didn't appear to be in any imminent danger Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman, Susan Madore.
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However, I cannot work up a whole lot of sympathy for the "star studded rehab center" that had to move, or the fact that some productions of what passes for TV these days has been disrupted for a while. Fire cleanses in some ways, so maybe it will clean up some of the trash they try to pass off as entertainment - myself, I would just as soon read a good book.
I also find it kind of tough to squeeze out a tear or two for those who have to stay at upscale hotels and posh resorts away from the fire zone, after all, they have the money to do it. Many of the people whose lives are being "disrupted" don''t have that, and will be homeless with no possessions but the clothes on their backs that they escaped in. Please, Jane Seymour - you left your CELL PHONE behind??!! Aw, poor baby.....
There are some twisted people out there. I hope some of you can find peace and love before it''s too late for you.
EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING.
Posted by fascistusa at 07:23 PM : Oct 24, 2007
You forgot Pelosi''s /Armenian/PPK/Turkey bloviating
However, many responses to the story are written by people who are obviously as self-centered and hypocritical as those they hate.
I hope you never see a column of fire advancing towards everything you have ever worked for, your hatred of others would disappear in an instant...
dives. lifestyles of the poor and anonymous?
new hit series, starring rich, famous people.
nudist colonies opening now at the north
and south pole. ban all sports. its getting
hotter and hotter. its all that friction.
in bed that''s making it so hot.
either that or planetary orbital decay.
slowly but surely planet earth falling into
the sun. start the evacuate the planet movement.