Yes, I can confirm that as soon as he mentions being on an island and you hear his voice get “breathy” almost as if he cannot complete his words with the full strength of his utterance.
This is to induce a hypnotic trance.

CUT-TO–

ENERGIZER BUNNY, marching away,

suddenly, to the swell of JAWS MUSIC,

the HEAD SWIVELS–

a malificent EYE WINKS…

CUT TO-

BLACK

That’s it!! Thanks for posting this, Fist. You are awesome.

Ha! Of COURSE their HQ would be at Crossroads of the World along with every other fly-by-night production office and porn producer (Even Danny DeVito’s ‘Hush Hush’ gossip rag in L.A. Confidential was HQ’d there– Full disclosure, my offices were these for a while as well!)

In mourning for a year and a day, probably.

Theatre of Arts, the longest continuously operating acting school in LA, has gone through numerous name changes; from 1941 to 1959 it was known as the Geller Theatre Workshop. The GI Bill paid for many ex-military to take dramatics training there, among them writer John Gilmore. Leon Drew, who taught there, recalled, “We taught in shifts, from 8 in the morning until midnight. Our theater was never dark, and among our students were youngsters like Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich’s daughter, … Mary K. Wells, Lin McCarthy and Harry Lauter.”

L. Ron Hubbard’s connection to the place is still a mystery… maybe he studied the building from the drugstore across the street.

In my lifetime:

Man on the moon

Tearing down the wall

Death of Scientology

wonder where he went ..maybe he had a heart attack after Obama got re elected