Post #351159 by Tipsy McStagger on Mon, Dec 24, 2007 10:18 PM

i came home from the family holiday festivities to find "good fellas" was on t.v.....i happened to tune in just about the time the owner of the bamboo lounge was going under and they were going to set the place on fire......

i believe the exterior was a place that was done up to look like a tiki/hawaiian bar......look at all the exterior bamboo on the building...it all looks new...if this was a true vintage place the bamboo would all be weathered and greyish looking on the outside......another clue is the sign..it looks like plywood or cardboard.....hardly something that you would find on a real vintage tiki bar, as it probably would not have made it through a full year of changing seasons and weather.....

as for the inside, i don't know....sure, it' would be a really extensive looking hollywood set if it were actually that, but remember the aku-aku- set from the movie casino??..it too was a faked set made to look like the old aku-aku and they seemed to do a pretty detailed job on that one as well....

the interior of the bamboo lounge in the movie looks suspiciously like a bamboo room in another movie, which name escapes me but was about a guy who was ill and fantasized he was a detective in the forties solving a murder mystery....john ritter was in this movie, if that helps jog someones memory, but the asian style bar reminded me of the one from good fellas...perhaps it was the same movie set for both films....also, the segments where the guy flashes back to the forties were shot in black and white...which made the bar look even cooler...

..okay, i just googled it..the name of the movie was " A gun, a car, a blonde" from 1997(99?).....ritter played the bartender, duncan. also stars billy bob thornton...

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2007-12-24 22:21 ]

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2007-12-24 22:28 ]