Colorado actress Pam Grier hears a frog symphonyin her new movie “Ladies of the House,” and at her simple spread near Colorado Springs.
She’s currently shooting “The L Word” in Canada — and she called in to explain what the heck a frog symphony is.
“You go out to the swamp and listen to the frogs. It’s a metaphor for finding a place that takes you away from the harshness and coldness and pain of life. It gives you a comfort zone.”
“Ladies of the House” stars Grier, Donna Mills and Florence Henderson and airs Oct. 18 on the Hallmark Channel. That’s a long way from “The L Word.”
And her Colorado home is a long way from Hollywood — just how she likes it.
“Everyone should have a place like this to go meditate and transform themselves,” she says. “It’s a healing place. All my friends and family come to visit, come to get away from the big cities and the anxieties. Just a simple farm house with a fireplace and some pinball machines. You just come in and drop your stuff and make some tea and sit on the deck. It doesn’t matter what car you drive or what your ZIP code is or what watch you’re wearing.”
Recent visitors have included Snoop Dogg and Xzibit. A bunch of Broncos went down for a Memorial Day picnic — and even got a little spooked when the sun went down.
“There are a lot of predators out there,” Grier says.
She’s just sad she doesn’t spend more time on her Colorado spread, at the end of a dirt road, under a clear Colorado sky. She just sold a screenplay, she’s going to England to make a movie and she’s writing her autobiography. Not much time for frog symphonies.
A-Listers.
Look for some fireworks Oct. 10 at the Aurora Economic Development Council A-List Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Denver. More than 2,000 people are expected to show up to hear the comments of James Carville and Mary Matalin — along with NBC News’ political director Chuck Todd.
Look! Up in the sky!
The atrium over the play area at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center is graced with a few beautiful kites — a preview of the Oct. 12 One Sky, One World fly-in at Stapleton. It’s the 23rd Annual World Kite Day — and hundreds of kites are expected to take wing to celebrate peace and friendship and all good things. What’s not to like?
Wet Willies
The billboard at Glendale peeler emporium Shotgun Willie’s usually has some snarky promotion. Or it takes digs at Gov. Sarah Palin or Bill Clinton. But this week it reads “SOCIALISM: NO MORE BUY OUTS!”
Just because they’re dancing on poles doesn’t mean they don’t have opinions.
City spirit
The premiere of ABC’s “Wife Swap” tonight stars Colorado storm chasers Mayumi and Richard Heene — swapping with safety conscious Connecticut couple Karen and Jay Martel . . . Cracklin’ rosie get on board with Neil Diamond at the Pepsi Center Dec. 17 . . . Sez who: “Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.” Mary Matalin
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