Jan. 3-Noticing that I was involved with recent hate crime prevention events Edwin from FX Networks invited me to the screening of Sins of Father starring Tom Sizemore and Ving Rhames, at the Zanuck Theatre in the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles. It’s about the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama church bombing that killed 4 young Black girls. The movie is based on the “The Sins of the Father” article by Pamela Colloff, which ran in the Texas Monthly. It is told thru the eyes of Tom Cherry, former KKK member and bombing suspect Bobby Frank Cherry’s son.

So I invited Charmy to go with me to go check it out. When I was going to UCLA I always used to past by the Fox Studios lot and now I was going to get a chance to go check it out. We arrived there and they had some security measures, to drive up to the lot, they set it up so that in order to drive in you had to zigzag your way in. Though they never checked my ID as they said they would. tsk tsk. Got there early and they had a reception with free food and drinks. Luckily Charmy came with me or I would have been bored and lonely since everyone else there seemed to know each other or were part of the entertainment industry. Everyone there seem to be smoozing with each other so Charmy and I hung out with each being that that scene really isn’t our thing. Though we meet one interesting and friendly writer name Gail? Gale?, who we ending up talking to the whole time and watching the movie with.

After the reception ended they had buses that drove us to Zanuck Theatre. We past by a building with the Simpsons painted all over it and then arrived at the Zanuck, when I noticed the red carpet. Good lawd. They had a couple of photographers snapping photos of the cast and crew. Tom Sizemore was there. That was interesting. Would have been even cooler if Ving Rhames was there. After that found a seat in the front since some of the seats were reserved. Someone from Fox or either FX talked a lil bit about the movie and introduced some of the cast and crew and also Tom Cherry was there. Both him and Tom Sizemore were sitting a few seats behind me.

Great movie, excellent story and acting, check it out if you have cable. It airs tonight on FX. Interesting take on hate crimes, which is a topic that is very relevant to America today, since many Americans seem to want to forget or are unaware of our dirty past, which actually wasn’t too long ago. This particular case in actually the longest manhunt in FBI history according to the FX networks site.

And too you people that think I’m being anti-American I’m not there’s nowhere else I want to live besides America because I am an American. I’m saying this because it needs to be said so that our country can continue to improve as a society. This something that’s not going to change overnight but is going to take years. Plus haven’t you people heard of the first Amendment?

At the end of Sins of the Father, they mentioned how Bobby Frank Cherry couldn’t stand trial because he was seen as mentally unfit. But afterwards the movie, someone annouced that just recently a judge declared that Bobby Frank Cherry was faking his illness and was able to stand trial, which will be happening later this month. To read more about this click to the 2 Washington Post’s articles
WP article 1
WP article 2

Afterwards I had mention beforehand to Charmy that I was craving Roscoe’s Chicken ‘N Waffles, since in OC we don’t have such fine treasures. The deal was sealed especially after watching Ving Rhames’ character mom fried some chicken in movie. So went to the one on Pico and I ordered Scoe’s Special #2 with the gravy on the side. And it was mmmmmm good. Who would of thought chicken and waffles would make such a great combo. And not just any fried chicken and waffles. Some of the best I’ve ever eaten. Yes, there goes my cholesterol. Ok, I can’t be eating there for a while especially since I’ve been turning into blubber since I moved back home.