Them on Us: 10/28/09

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

By Jake Nichols

Hollywood in the Hole
Jackson Hole, Wyo.-L.A. producer Robert Hickey is proposing to shoot a new series that will make Jackson’s skid 20-somethings the stars. The public is surely dying to know what makes powder hounds tick; other than PBR and pizza slices?

The ‘slacker sitcom’ will take viewers inside the lives of young ski bums, pursuing their “recreational lifestyle” or ‘couch surfing.’

Hickey is executive producer of 10 Items or Less, a series on TBS. The show will be called “Epic.” The project is contingent on a network desperate enough to buy it.
We caught the item on Denver’s CBS affiliate, News 4.

License plate No. 1
Emma Brown wrote a nice obit for cowboy-governor-senator Cliff Hansen in the Washington Post.  Hansen parlayed his cattle-raising upbringing into a life of political achievement that once had the former senator tapped as President Reagan’s Interior secretary.

Speaking about his childhood stutter, Hansen told the Denver Post in ‘96: “One day, a hired hand, meaning no harm I’m sure, heard me stuttering, and he said, ‘Don’t worry, Cliff, someday you’ll be governor.’ And I thought, ‘By God, I will be governor.’ When I was riding alone up on the range, I’d pontificate and make speeches to the cows.”

Hansen’s Wyoming, disctrict 22, license plate was the number “1.”

Chouinard to rescue
Kent Garber came to JH to interview the chillest businessman on and for the planet. The article on Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, 70, came out in US News & World Report. Garber said Chouinard doesn’t much care about selling jackets these days.
“The reason I am in business is I want to protect what I love,” he said. “I used to spend 250 days a year sleeping on the ground. I’m old enough to have seen the destruction.”

Since the ‘80s, Chouinard has put environmental activism at the forefront. In ‘94, he threatened to leave Patagonia after learning that cotton from industrial farming was devastating for the Earth. He gave the company 18 months to switch to organic cotton.

 He eventually got his way. “Corporations are real weenies,” he said. “They are scared to death of everything. My company exists ... to take those risks and prove that it’s good business.” JHW
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