I have to drive up to Santa Barbara today around noon and get myself set up at Fess Parker’s Doubletree hotel before ambling over to a gathering across from the Arlington theatre (an hour or so before the 8 pm debut showing of Robert Towne‘s Ask the Dust) for festival director Roger Durling, so the column will be down for a few hours…
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