At least John Huston was a classy villain...​(*Updated, with new info on the bottom. Post originally published August 1...)At the end of the day yesterday--a Friday-- whoever's in charge of compiling the agenda for the SanTana City Council slipped the following item into the consent calendar:
GO LOCAL PROGRAM STEP 2 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS -
Execute an agreement with Cordoba Corporation in the amount of
$4,845,026."Go Local" means the choo-choo dream SanTana Mayor Don Papi Pulido has pushed for
John Huston channels William Mulholland and Jack Nicholson clueless Angelenos in Roman Polanski's classic Chinatown.​UC Irvine's revelation that it would host free "water-and-film" events Friday night and Saturday morning and afternoon immediately produced visions of a giant kiddie pool plopped in front of a movie screen erected in the middle of Aldrich Park. When it was further disclosed that the first flick screened would be the 131-minute-long Chinatown, visions of pruny appendages danced i