Did You Feel It?
There was a small 3.0 earthquake last night around 9.30pm Pacific Daylight time. 3.0s aren’t terribly big, but we (me and mine) happened to be about only five miles from the epicenter. It was a quick and exciting jolt. And as it happens, I was laying on the floor at the time so I got the full force of it (no couch or bed absorbing any of the energy). Here’s the skinny (courtsey of USGS):
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 33.627°N, 117.906°W |
| Depth | 11.3 km (7.0 miles) |
| Region | GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA |
| Distances |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph=112, Dmin=4 km, Rmss=0.35 sec, Gp= 97°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=O |
| Source | California Integrated Seismic Net:, USGS, Caltech, CGS, UCB, UCSD, UNR |
| Event ID | ci14358316 |
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
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I didn’t feel it, but I have seen “Earthquake” many times. Why did your and your talented family give up acting?
Good eyes, von Fischgeist! Good eyes!
Sadly the Lordleiter Family’s promising Hollywood career came to a screeching halt during the post-production of “Earthquake.” There were extreme “creative differences” between The Nudge and Heston surrounding the story and vignettes related to the rogue policeman Lew Slade character.
Sadly, Heston’s Star Status in the 70s was such that the studio bowed to his every whim. (He is the Omega Man after all!) Plus he was (and still is) backed by the NRA, Camel Cigarettes and Bud Light.
Hence, the Lordleiter family studio contracts and Hollywood careers were abruptly ended. Thanks a lot, The Nudge! We had no legal recourse as Moses’ word was Law back in the 70s.
Sadly both George Kennedy and Lorne Greene sided with The Nudge in this conflict. Neither of their careers ever fully recovered.
Lorne Greene was never able to get a role in a feature film again. He grasped for acting scraps on episodic television and the occasion tv biopic.
George Kennedy did manage to land a recurring role in the lucrative Police Squad television show and movie adaptations, but otherwise only found a modicum of work as a television ad product spokesman. (“Sprays? Mints? Gums? NAH!)
George Kennedy’s career was so negatively impacted by the Heston-Earthquake debacle that he couldn’t even get into “Police Squad!”; it wasn’t until “The Naked Gun” that the stigma had subsided sufficiently to allow his casting as Ed (there are rumors that he worked for scale, but I’m not sure I buy ’em). Lorne Greene definitely died a bitter man, having been railroaded into Battlestar Galactica, and, worse, Galactica 1980, in which he was forced to wear a fake beard. Nothing makes one’s future corpse prepare for high-speed spinning in its grave like a fake beard.