Fires Chase Celebs Off Sets, Into Hotels

TV Production Disrupted; Star-Studded Rehab Clinic Evacuated

(AP) 
2Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott, whose San Diego County bed-and-breakfast is featured on their Oxygen channel show "Tori & Dean: Inn Love," learned Monday that the Fallbrook-area B&B had been evacuated, along with the town.

"Fallbrook is obviously very near and dear to our hearts, so we're really worried about the people that live there, there are such great people in that little town," Spelling told the TV magazine "Entertainment Tonight."

Meanwhile, Hollywood mogul David Geffen opened up his recently renovated Malibu Beach Inn to firefighters and rescue workers for free, the trade paper Daily Variety reported.

While many evacuees sought refuge in school gyms and a San Diego stadium, the well-heeled chose different accommodations.

Shutters on the Beach and the Viceroy in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills' Peninsula and Four Seasons hotels were booked for the rest of the week with guests who had fled the fires in Malibu and San Diego, hotel reservations managers told Variety.

Reservations at some of the hotels had been light until the fires erupted Sunday, the paper said.

Wind-fueled wildfires across Southern California have destroyed more than 1,300 homes, burned more than 500 square miles and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes.

The business side of Hollywood also was affected by the far-flung disaster, which hit as TV and film studios, bracing for a possible Writers' Guild strike, try to stockpile shows and movies.

Fox's "24" was scheduled to shoot Monday and Tuesday at a shuttered Naval air station in the Orange County city of Irvine but was forced to retreat because "smoky conditions made filming impossible," according to producer 20th Century Fox Television.

The cast and crew returned to the studio to shoot other scenes and it was uncertain if or when they would return to the Irvine facility, a spokesman said Tuesday.

ABC's freshman series "Big Shots" had to reschedule a shoot planned for Tuesday in the Angeles National Forest, a network spokesman said.

CBS' "NCIS," which shoots at a Santa Clarita studio near the so-called Magic Fire in northern Los Angeles County, encountered minimal disruption, with a few crew members unable to make it to work because of fire concerns, a show spokeswoman said.

"It's not really going to make a difference for the show. This (the fire) will be gone in a week or two," said series creator Don Bellisario, putting the show biz setbacks in perspective. "It makes a difference for the 100,000-plus (local) people directly affected by the fire - losing their homes and being evacuated."

[kevzgrl]

My heart hurts for all the ordinary people who have lost their homes, their savings, all their possessions and some even their lives in this horrible tragedy.

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.....

[jimbo554]

I''ll tell you whats wrong with America, it''s not some celebrities who hold political opinions that differ from others, it''s people with hatred and contempt for people who are facing disaster. How could anybody have anything but sympathy for people who have lost their houses?

There are some twisted people out there. I hope some of you can find peace and love before it''s too late for you.

[jowand]

FINALLY one of those Groups gets to feel what we''''ve been feeling the past 7 years. Hurricane Katrina, Fascism, Iran/Iraq/Afghanistan WARS, Brittany Spears latest albulm - ALL HORRIFIC DISASTERS.

EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING.


Posted by fascistusa at 07:23 PM : Oct 24, 2007

You forgot Pelosi''s /Armenian/PPK/Turkey bloviating

[poopusbuttus]

Well, Bush did say that we were going to smoke all of the terrorists (Libs) outt there holes, didnt he?

[bareemperor]

Yes, this story is about the elite and their losses.
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...

[tnt1954]

parable of lazarus and the rich people and their
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.

[mike71067]

Rats! Why I first saw the photograph, I thought this was going to be an article about a new David Bowie tour. Turns out it was just an article about a bunch of America-hating liberal spoiled brat celebrities being inconvenienced by the wildfires in California.

[cashion02]

Hell has no fury like a God that is spurned. I wonder if these people who do not believe there is a God are saying, "Please God save my house". My prayers are for the innocent and even for the not-so-innocent. This fire literally scares me out of whatever witts I ever had. I cannot believe what I am seeing on TV. I am praying "God please hear the innocents'' prayers and bring the flames under control. These fires are only a small part of what I believe hell would be like and I don''t plan to go there. That is a never-ending fire. It burns like fire without consuming it''s victim. Not for a day or week or year but for eternity.

[mike71067]

My heart pumps purple pisss for the poor liberal spoiled brats. I hope that while the wildfires are burning out of control, the pampered celebrities will still be able to snort gobs of cocaine, donate tons of money to leftist politicians, and spew forth anti-American bigotry.

[emma915]

My heart goes out to ANYONE who loses everything they''ve worked for to such loss.