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February 19, 2006
Hollywood on Hollywood at the Shorty Machen Store
In the Birmingham News, Kathy Kemp junkets off to Hollywood, "in the Appalachian foothills just above Scottsboro... a far piece (roughly 1,830 miles) from the place where movies are made and celebrities frolic." She surveys how much Hollywood ("'We're the real Hollywood,' reads the... town water tower") knows of Hollywood: 
"Hmmm," Shorty Machen says, scrunching up his forehead... "Hmmm," he says again before pausing to ring up a customer's purchases. [The] Shorty Machen Store... seems to be the hub of activity in Hollywood, pop. 950, especially at lunch time. Besides groceries, gas, fishing tackle, pickled okra and hardware, Shorty's offers a full-scale sandwich menu starring a cheeseburger worthy of Schwab's drugstore... The word "Brokeback" does not ring a bell for Shorty, a quiet fellow whose favorite pastime is quail hunting. "That's what Dick Cheney was doing when he got shot," Shorty says, which suggests he does indeed follow current events..." The most movie-mad local Kemp found was "surprised to hear that [Brokeback Mountain] is up for best picture. "Once you get past the first part, it kind of had a good story to it," Kemp's focus group of one told her.
Posted by pride at February 19, 2006 08:10 AM
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