Comedy Central’s “South Park” turns 10 this summer. And the creators, Colorado native sons Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are doing very well, thank you.
The boys are featured on the cover of the current Rolling Stone in a story titled “10 Years of South Park – Still Sick, Still Wrong.”
The biggest change for the boys since the show debuted Aug. 13, 1997? They are now “obscenely wealthy.”
Parker owns eight homes in places like Kauai and Steamboat Springs. And he’s bought houses for his parents and sister. The story also tells us that “(Parker) and Stone, say friends, graciously pick up the tab for group vacations and 16-course dinners with $800 bottles of wine.”
Still, the guys remain Colorado proud. Take this from Stone, about being at a party in Malibu recently. “This woman came up to us, like, ‘Oh, my son is at the University of Colorado, and I can’t get him to go to class because he snowboards all the time.’ And I’m immediately thinking, ‘(Expletive) you and your kid,’ because I couldn’t afford to snowboard in college. Then I say, ‘Yeah, I still go to Colorado to visit my family.’ She’s like, ‘So they really are just a bunch of hicks out there, aren’t they?’ I’m like, ‘I just told you my mom and dad and sister live there.’ And Trey walks up to her and says, ‘George Bush is a great man.’ She looks like we’d poured acid in her ear. And we’re laughing. …”
Two for one
We hear that Mel’s Bar & Grill is set to close in May – but Melvin, Janie and Charles Master are giving us two restaurants in its place.
The trio (dad, mom and son) opened Montecito on East Sixth Avenue in December. Mel plans to open a second Montecito in Greenwood Village at Orchard Road and Holly Street. And they also will open Annabel’s next door, with “great up-end American comfort food,” says Mel. These spots were previously Ventura Grill and Ocotillo.
Springfield of dreams
The people behind “The Simpsons” movie have invited 16 real Springfields from across the country to compete for the privilege to have the movie open there this summer.
And No.1 on my list is Colorado’s Springfield, the largest town in Baca County, in the southeastern corner of the state. Population: 1,562.
Springfield is where the Simpsons live in cartoonland. People from Fox, producer of the movie, contacted Jodi Ricker, town manager of OUR Springfield, recently to inform her that her Springfield was in the running.
“We’re to produce a three-to-five minute video to entice them to bring the premiere here,” Ricker says. “We’re just enjoying this. It’s a lot of fun, especially after this long winter.”
Colorado’s Springfield doesn’t have a prison or a Moe’s, but it has an electric company, if not a nuclear-power plant, and, most importantly, the Capitol Theatre for movies.
City spirit
Cyndi Lauper brings her True Colors Tour for Human Rights to Red Rocks Amphitheatre on June 10 – with Erasure, Debbie Harry, The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip and host Margaret Cho. … Sez who: “I saw a blind man rent a porno video. He must really like bad music.” – Mark Gross
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