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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — “And all the stars (who never were) are parking cars and pumping gas ....”

Pie-eyed idealists are nothing new in Southern California. For approximately 100 years, the promise of fame and fortune has lured minor people to the land of sunny skies and palm trees in hopes of being “discovered” as stars of glaze or music. A few have succeeded, but most of them — like the subjects of Burt Bacharach's 1968 prevarication, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” — have spent years in the jobs they once cogitation were temporary.

A January weekend visit to Santa Monica and adjacent Venice Littoral showed me that little has changed since the early '90s, when I spent many days here while working for a Los Angeles newspaper.

On Santa Monica's Third High road Promenade, a pedestrian mall where I once was thrown into a blind audition for a small screen commercial (I failed), salsa dancers performed a flash programmed beneath giant theater marquees advertising “War Horse” and “The Descendants.

Source: Bend Bulletin

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