The PCH: Serpentine Devourer Of Celebrity Drunkards

off the wagon wrote:
> http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/top...rds-191699.php
>
> Bored and exhausted from days of repeatedly violating every orifice of
> the Mel Gibson story with its throbbing member of round-the-clock
> coverage, the news media now pauses for a moment on a well-traveled
> stretch of road in Malibu, contemplates a particularly inviting crack
> in its asphalt surface, hurls itself upon the ground, and begins anew
> its vigorous pounding of this Gibson-related opening. Enjoy this
> excerpt of the AP's brief profile of the Pacific Coast Highway, the
> serpentine street that has devoured whole some of Hollywood's most
> accomplished celebrity substance abusers:
>
> "Mel Gibson is only the latest celebrity to find trouble on an
> infamous stretch of the scenic Pacific Coast Highway. A wild-eyed Nick
> Nolte was immortalized in a 2002 mug shot taken after he was caught
> weaving along the road under the influence of the drug GHB.
> Robert Downey Jr. was taken into custody in 1996 after authorities
> stopped him for speeding on the winding, beach-side highway and found
> cocaine, heroin and a pistol in his car.
>
> With a huge number of celebrity homes nearby and murderously twisty
> terrain, the PCH, as it's known, has ensnared more than its share of
> superstars.
>
> Filled with blind spots and hairpin curves wrapped around some of the
> most beautifully distracting scenery in the country, the PCH has been
> called an accident waiting to happen.
>
> "At best, stone cold sober, and not fatigued and at 2:30 a.m., it is a
> difficult road to drive," said Arnold G. York, publisher of the local
> newspaper, The Malibu Times. "No traffic engineer in his right mind
> would have designed it this way."
>
> In the time it took us to cut and paste the blockquote in this post,
> news arrived that Gibson's finally been charged with that DUI. We now
> happily return you to his regularly scheduled humping.

I blame Eli "Weevil" Navarro.

-Vin