T'was in another lifetime, one of toil and blood. When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud.

I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. Come in, she said I'll give you shelter from the storm.

Hello everyone and welcome to a special Christmas edition of the Tobolaski files.

My name is David Chen. I'm the host of the slash filmcast at slash film.

And you have joined us here in one of the most interesting storytelling podcasts on the internet

were character actor Stephen Tobolowski tells tales about life, love, and the entertainment

industry. Joining me today as always, he played the mayor of Beverly Hills in the HBO original series

on Terrage.

Stephen Tobolowski, thanks for joining me today.

Absolutely such a pleasure.

You know, yesterday I ordered takeout food from a Lebanese place down the road for me.

And the woman who gave me the takeout food said,

oh my gosh, you're the mayor of Beverly Hills.

I just watched it in Entourage.

And I do have a funny little remembrance of that is the girl I don't know if you people have

seen that but in the in that entourage I end up on a date with the girl who's

really a guy. And we find out she's a guy at the end because we do one of those

Britney spear shots where she's coming out of the car and T.M. Z is there and they photograph

under her skirt and we see that there is more equipment there than one would expect from a beautiful

model which is who this woman was. She was a Russian model from Kiev and

this was, she could barely speak English and this was her first job in America. And this

transvestite.

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