The other
night while surfing the networks, on HBO I think, we came across the movie
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES.
It was an
funny entertaining spy movie, like a tongue-in-cheek James Bond or MAN FROM
U.N.C.L.E type of movie.
After
watching it just a few minutes we figured out a husband and wife spy team lived
next door to the average nerdy yuppie family.
Suddenly the spy's family's house blew up. Of course the fire trucks came. On side of the fire trucks were ATLANTA FIRE
DEPARTMENT. Then we perked up. Interesting.
The movie's
climax scene took place in the Regency Hyatt Hotel in downtown Atlanta. We recognized it immediately. On the top of the Regency is the big circular
blue Polaris lounge that slowly rotates.
It brought
back memories. Whenever one of my
ex-Navy friends would come through Marietta we would take them to the Polaris. Then, many stories up you could see miles in any direction. Now, it is surrounded by even taller
buildings, so I am not the long range view is still there.
It also
reminded me of Billy Mann. Billy Mann
was a Postal mail handler through the night and in the evenings he was the bell
captain at the Regency Omni Hotel. He is
a tall person. He wore a maroon suit and
a beige cloth top-hat.
In his evening
working attire he reminded me of the voo-doo witch doctor in one of the James
Bond movies. He had style, had a
youthful face, and was making his own visual statement constantly.
And he did
so at work also, always smiling and laughing and in control of his environment. Good for Billy Mann.
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