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...little to encourage it and much to discourage it. There are, for example, 83 separate municipalities in Los Angeles County, and a producer may have to obtain permits from half a dozen of them before he can shoot. A film crew that is following a car down Santa Monica Boulevard can pass through four jurisdictions in just a few minutes. Labor costs are also very high. Nonspeaking extras, for instance, are paid $87 a day in California; in neighboring Arizona they make only $35. As a result, producers often favor right-to-work states, where they can avoid union regulations...
Even when there are no promotions or pay increases immediately involved, today's etiquette is often based on the struggle for status, or what Californians like to call "personal space." At a chromed and carpeted temple of body worship on Santa Monica Boulevard, for example, everybody scrupulously obeys certain unwritten rules. No more than three swimmers are allowed in each lap lane. It is rude to swim the backstroke unless the swimmer is alone in the lane. "Neo-manners" is what Cynthia Heimel calls such rituals. "There don't seem to be enough resources for everyone...
Across town another man might vicariously fulfill himself by stepping into Clark Gable's shoe prints on a Hollywood sidewalk, another woman might prove herself Lana Turner's equal in some way on the same boulevard. But these souls in the Coliseum had more action in their dreams: they had beaten the wind in the arena of the swift. Having achieved that, they would step back into the throng and go about their jobs...
...milling crowd along Westwood Boulevard was particularly thick last Friday night, the eve of the Olympics' opening ceremony. Passersby hoped to catch a glimpse of a few of the 3,400 athletes housed just four blocks north in the Olympic Village...
...miss my family," a young laborer on Olympic Boulevard said the other morning. In his village he has a wife, three children, a mother and an invalid sister he supports. With the money he earns in construction work or cutting lawns, his family gets along well at home, but would be terribly poor in East Los Angeles. So he works for two months, goes home for a month and returns. The loneliness is the only thing that gets him down...