Oh yeah, there's a Burbank Store2Door that delivers liquor, beer, wine, mixers, sodas, munchies, etc. for $3.99 per order, no minimum.


Nancy!!!!  Oh crap.

'Kay, borgosi.     Unfortunately, there isn't a liquor store within walking distance, but there's one only about 5 minutes away if you follow Hollywood Way south to Victory.  It's not far at all, but I'm remembering that you can't turn left out of the hotel onto Hollywood Way so you'd have to turn right and then turn around as soon as you can; is that right, Bette?

BTW, if you want something other than the chain restaurants that's still fairly close to the hotel, there's the Ramp:  http://www.garybricsramp.com/ for fish, steak, and a decent bar.  The place is on Hollywood Way heading north, just before the 5 freeway.  I don't think it's expensive.

Also, by Fest time, a ban on the use of handheld cell phones while driving will have gone into effect!

borgosi,

If it's DS connections that you're looking for, be sure to watch for two different Collins estates.  The most famous Collinwood appears in the opening aerial pan of Newport, and the other involves a couple of indoor scenes filmed in Lyndhurst where scenes from HoDS also took place.  Happy spotting!

Wow!!!

So what happened on that tape that "left a bad taste in his mouth?"

You might want to read through the entire topic:

ds convention/event tapes

Willie Loomis, check out the thread "A Family full of incesters" starting here:

Joe is not a Collins relative. ...

and in the following post:

As for Chris and Carolyn.  They're third cousins.  A union that is perfectly legal in all of our 50 states and as far as I know, the rest of the world. ...

If Jeremiah's parents were cousins, then perhaps somehow the genes that produced his mother might have survived in some other Collins line, and if they mixed with Jeremiah's father's line again, well there's the fantastical explanation for how Burke could conceivably be a Collins who looks virtually identical to Jeremiah!   

Heh heh!  Hey, there could be several such events that explain the Collins' unusually "persistent strain."  Just because a child directly receives 50% of his/her DNA from each parent (as Garth Blackwood wrote it, a 1/2 genetic relation) doesn't mean that the genes inherited from one of the parents differ entirely from the genes inherited from the other.  GB's calculations (which were great, btw) don't take into consideration that there could be additional relationships between the family members, such as the added twist to David's line that:

[spoiler]Technically speaking, Roger Collins married his grandmother[/spoiler]

Those Collinses - forget Carolyn's suggestion that their family motto should be "Hypocrisy above all" - it should be "Incestuousness above all"!