That ain't no ordinary parishioner
Re the downpage photo on Monday's L.A. Times A1 from All Saints Church captioned "The Rev. J. Edwin Bacon Jr. embracing a parishioner" after the end of the IRS probe was announced Sunday ... well, the photographer failed to note, or failed to know, that the dude in mufti being hugged by the rector in priestly vestments is the church's former rector, George Regas, giver of the anti-war sermon that created the hoo-ha in the first place ... Photo in question is not up on the Times' Web page, though two others are.
Front page of today's N.Y. Times Arts section has a story about two new TV shows, "Cane," premiering tonight on CBS, and "Dirty Sexy Money," beginning tomorrow night on ABC. Alessandra Stanley's take: "'Cane' has sex, rum and salsa and still manages to be plodding. 'Dirty Sexy Money' ... is set in the suit-and-tie world of New York City and is a lot more fun."
The local angle is that both shows shoot at Villa del Sol d'Oro at Alverno High School in Sierra Madre, the mansion designed by Wallace Neff as a scaled-down version of Villa Corazzi in Florence, said to be Michelangelo's only architectural design.
Alverno head of school Ann Gillick said that out of concern about the title of the latter soap she is reviewing all scripts herself ...