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( j The Clackamas Print alture acedlSiclackamas.edu Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 Hollywood to J ÍTZ Theatre T1 1 takes 1 WZ • strides 15 ■■■■■ What the filmmakers had captured was the first time meeting of music writer Chris Estes By John William Howard and Calvin Johnson (not the wide receiver Sports Editor for the Detroit Lions). Johnson is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and disk jockey Walking down the dark alleyway next to from Seattle. the aging theater, I didn’t quite know what I’d Estes arid Johnson share stories and chat find I had Just walked two blocks in the rain, awkwardly, interspersed with songs from doing my best to stay dry while waiting to Johnson and readings from Estes’ life. There, cross streets and dodging the growing puddles wasn’t really any acting to speak of (other than that collected in the ruts. After weaving past a Johnson being, apparently, himself) and the pair of trash cans and around a badly leaking editing was basic and choppy. The audio was rain gutter, I found myself facing that iconic poor.and the video was Just that. Video, not sign. - shot on film and played from a DVD player. “Hollywood,” it proclaimed loudly to the , After the movie was finished, directors bustling street at its front, its lights shining Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas answered a smat on die barren sidewalk below. Still an hour tering of questions from the audience before before the show, the doors to the box office introducing Johnson to sing a few of the piec were locked tightly, which gave some extra es he “made up himself,” much to the delight time to get a closer look at what I’d come to of his four diehard fans that arrived to sit in see. the front row, one wearing bright red pants On the wall to the left of the lit up marquee and a tweed pea coat, and another sporting was a small bronze plaque detailing how the hair an odd mixture of blonde and light blue. historic theater had been built in 1926. The The experience doesn’t speak to the qual Hollywood Theatre opened in July of that ity of the artistry; it spoke to the fact that year, boasting 1,500 seats and was hailed as a Portland, as weird as.it is, is a special place in “palace of luxury, comfort and entertainment this country. Portland is a place that allows unsurpassed by any theatre on the Coast.” ' those who have ideas, those who have obses Now more than 90 years later, it isn’t quite sions, those who hold ideals, to get them out lace that it used to be. Once the doors' for people to see and appreciate. It seems that y opened and the 15 or so patrons that this city in particular is constantly looking had been waiting under the cover filed in, for it something new to follow. Its the hipster became even clearer the grandeur that at one culture that doesn’t like anything mainstream’ time graced theater goers in the building’s and therefore goes out of its way to find its heyday. own little, nook that it can call its own, but Pictures of the, building’s remarkable his only until it becomes popular. tory line the walls of the foyer leading up to The people that showed up weren’t there the main auditorium, which was the lower to ooh and ahh over the quality of the »■three -they-there - jn, fiy d..^lpdel-A| who was entertaining, though not quite the sits squarely in front of the entrance; carefully way I expected. The movie and concert detailed artistry decorates the ceiling, which goers were there because they wanted to see has now been painted over. The titles o f the something different, which is exactly what a films for the everting are written in colored non-profit like the Hollywood offers. With its chalk on blackboards. Mine was in the largest “Hecklevision” films (heckles and comments of the three auditoriums entitled, “Have You texted to a certain number appear on screen) Ever Had a Beard?” and its menagerie of indie productions, the I’ll admit I really knew nothing about the beloved Hollywood Theatre helps Portland to film before walking in, and that I dort’t really live up to that famous slogan, “Keep Portland know much about the film after walking out. Wend.’ . ■ U H C alvin Johnson helps “Keep P ortland Weird.” w ith his u nusual performances which was seen in the movie, “H ave You Ever H a d a Beard?”playing a t the H ollywood Theatre. C O M M U N ; I T Y C O L L E G E D o w n lo a d o u r n e w I M o b ile A p p to d a y ! k ’flfe d i Clackamas Community College Iscurrently " lustrng-aTrewmrnrtrtlerappticatianrand you jd h k . J can. download it for free from your app store if you have an iPhone, Blackberry, or Google Android mobile device. 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