During the ceremony, each member of the congregation approached the altar to accept the Eucharist while submitting to a naked woman sitting on an altar. One Sunday I attended a Gnostic rite in the dark basement rooms of a strip mall near Verdugo City. But what happened when the play was a dud? What if it was a flop? “A place has to become an inner landscape for the imagination to start to inhabit that place, to turn it into its theatre,” the Italian novelist Italo Calvino wrote when he lived in Paris. All the suffering and concrete added up to zero or less, as Bret Easton Ellis would have it - a sun-blasted nothing, a brainless amoeba with vital forces seeping in and out of the body public in some dysfunctional communion. Sometimes, when I really hated Los Angeles, I thought the actress was right. She said in a soft voice, “I’ll tell you what Los Angeles is: it’s nothing. Half Chihuahua, half pug, her “companion chug,” she called it. You want to know the city? It’s addicts and storytellers, that’s all.” A dog trotted outside. All these people more successful than you, younger than you.
“Monday, the Emmy’s, can I tell you? I was completely suicidal. The house atop the canyon had been borrowed from a friend.
I mean, I do love it, I love it, but I hate it.” Recently, the actress had been out of work, I learned. It completely magnifies the worst in yourself. Do you know? Los Angeles magnifies everything, it really does. isn’t really a city, it’s too spread out,” the actress said. Vermont Avenue, crammed with cars all the way to Long Beach, was two long ropes of lights. Afterward, she smoked a cigarette on the terrace. “Oh, they’re the best, you must try,” she murmured. The actress, a short woman, recognizable from television, thrust her arm into the bag nearly all the way to the shoulder. The doorbell rang, and the actress squealed with delight when a deliveryman arrived with a large bag stained by oil, full of McDonald’s fries.
Guests sat on a white rug next to a wood-burning stove. In this excerpt from his acclaimed new book, Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles, author Rosecrans Baldwin assesses the deeper meaning of this invented and provisional city.ħ.8 One winter night, a London actress threw a party in a cliffside house in the Hollywood Hills.
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