Honoring a One likes steak, Look at hippos to free-spirited the other prefers help elephants American icon bedspread — INSIDE THIS WEEK BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID CARMEL, CA Permit No. 149 Volume 93 No. 40 On the Internet: www.carmelpinecone.com October 5-11, 2007 Y OUR S OURCE F OR L OCAL N EWS, ARTS AND O PINION S INCE 1915 Eastwood’s next projects: RATEPAYER Affordable housing and Angelina Jolie ADVOCATES PROPOSE CHEAPER By PAUL MILLER HE TOOK the summer off after finishing two WATER PLAN complicated movies in one year, but former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood is about to resume his role as of one of Hollywood’s hottest directors. And this ■ Treated sewage could become time, he’s making a thriller with perhaps the world’s part of Peninsula’s supply most controversial movie star. Filming of “The Changeling,” starring Angelina By KELLY NIX Jolie, begins in two weeks. “I’ve never worked with her, but she’s a very good A GROUP that advises the California Public Utilities actress and I think she’s a very good choice for this Commission has proposed a water supply for the role,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone. “A lot of actress- Monterey Peninsula it says will cost $100 million less es were trying to get it.” than California American Water Company’s desal plant. The movie tells the story of a woman whose son “The thought was, are there any other local alterna- disappears. When police find him and return him to tives that could be implemented faster, cost less and have his mother, the woman claims it’s not the right boy. fewer environmental concerns?” said Keith Israel, direc- Filming will be at various locations around Los tor of the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Angeles and at Universal Studios. The producers are Angelina Jolie (left) will be directed by Clint Eastwood in a thriller, Agency and a member of the Regional Project Technical Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Rob Lorenz. A “The Changeling,” with filming beginning in two weeks. The former Work Group appointed by the PUC Division of Ratepayer release date has not been set. Carmel Mayor is also working on a Carmel Valley housing project. Advocates. “That is how this process started.” “It’s a dark story but a very interesting story with The new plan — called the “regional urban water sup- a lot of intrigue,” Eastwood said, “and it’s a little dif- ply evaluation” — was drawn up to identify the best and ferent from what I’ve done before.” force housing,” Eastwood said. “I was very conscious of it cheapest water solution for the Monterey Peninsula as an Eastwood, 77, has two Best Director Oscars — for when I was mayor, and it’s even worse now, with a lot of alternative to Cal Am’s proposed Coastal Water Project, “Unforgiven” (1992), a grim western, and “Million Dollar people who work on the Monterey Peninsula driving from which will cost about $230 million. Baby” (2004), a love story set in the world of semi-profes- places like Soledad.” The new plan would provide from 12,500 to 28,400 sional boxing. His biggest fame as an actor came from He said the Rancho Cañada project might result in less acre-feet of water per year, according to its creators. action movies, such as “Dirty Harry,” which was released in traffic on local roads as people who live there are relieved “We took every project that agencies in Monterey have 1971. of their long commutes. Water for the 280-unit project will looked at at some point in the past,” said Steve Kasower, That was also the year Eastwood launched his career as come from a reduction of water use on the Rancho Cañada senior research economist with University of California a director, with “Play Misty For Me” — a thriller filmed golf course. Santa Cruz Center for Integrated Water Research, and a entirely on the Monterey Peninsula and featuring numerous The latest general plan being considered by the county consultant to the DRA, “and we stuck some of them local landmarks. It’s currently being offered, along with might make it difficult to build the Rancho Cañada project, together.” several other Eastwood films, by Comcast’s On Demand Eastwood acknowledged. Two weeks ago, his business asso- Although the plan calls for a bulk of the Peninsula’s service. “I saw it again not too long ago and it’s held up ciate, Alan Williams, asked the board of supervisors to leave water to come from a desalination plant, the plant would pretty well,” Eastwood said. the door open for the project as the county works on GPU5. be smaller than the one proposed by Cal Am. Combining Before heading to Los Angeles this week, Eastwood also Affordable units in the Rancho Cañada project, includ- a small desal plant and several other projects would be confirmed he will be a principal in the Rancho Cañada ing 140 apartments and townhouses, would be subsidized less expensive to local ratepayers and be less controver- Village housing project in Carmel Valley, which was by market-rate homes. sial, Kasower said. Although not any one of the compo- launched by Nick Lombardo before his death in May 2005. “It’s something I will be proud to invest in,” Eastwood nents on its own would be able to supply the Peninsula “There’s always the dilemma of where to provide work- said. See WAT E R page 36A Second story removed, Renegade Shakespeare scholars convene but neighbor says By CHRIS COUNTS come across as fools. They have funny names THE BIGGEST controversy in the history of literature is and they’re the subject house is still too big coming to town this weekend. of ridicule. When For the third time in the event’s 32-year history, Carmel they’re portrayed as a By MARY BROWNFIELD will host the Shakespeare Authorship Conference, a gather- mob, they’re a threat. ing of scholars, history buffs and literary detectives dedicat- That’s a very aristocrat- EVEN THOUGH Rick Kashfi decided to lop off the ed to debunking the idea that William Shakespeare actually ic attitude.” second story of the home he plans to build at the south- penned the works attributed to him. Anti-Stratfordians east corner of San Antonio and 10th, neighbors still “There is definitely reason to doubt that Shakespeare offer several leading objected at last week’s Carmel Design Review Board wrote the plays,” explained Stephen Moorer, PacRep candidates as the true meeting. But the board, which had approved the original Theatre’s creative director and a leading debunker who author or authors of two-story proposal that was overturned by the city played a big role in bringing the event to Carmel. “And there Shakespeare’s work — council in August, decided he had conceded enough and is so little that is known about the man, it just fuels the Francis Bacon, again voted in his favor. debate.” Christopher Marlowe After the council sent him back to the drawing board In the world of Shakespeare scholarship, those who ques- and Edward de Vere, with a request to minimize the impacts on neighbors by tion the traditional view of the author are often called anti- the 17th Earl of reconfiguring the second story, changing the roof pitch Stratfordians, a reference to Stratford-upon-Avon, the Oxford. DeVere is con- and height, and excavating to lower the entire home’s writer’s alleged hometown. They believe the true author of sidered such a popular William Shakespeare position on the property, designer Darren Davis drafted Shakespeare’s works was an aristocrat or, perhaps, a group of candidate that he has plans for a new 2,460-square-foot, one-story, U-shaped aristocrats. Moorer believes it would be impossible for a man inspired his own sub- home. Stucco-sided with a cedar-shake roof, it would from Shakespeare’s humble origins to have such uncanny genre of anti-Stratfordians known as Oxfordians. contain four bedrooms, three bathrooms, an attached insight into the world of the privileged and the titled. “His life’s story reads just like Hamlet’s,” Moorer insisted. “In Shakespeare’s work, there is such realism and depth in See BIG page 12A the aristocratic characters,” Moorer said. “The peasants often See SHAKESPEARE page 18A Get your complete Carmel Pine Cone every Friday morning in convenient pdf format as an email attachment. Free subscriptions available at www.carmelpinecone.com. 2A The Carmel Pine Cone October 5, 2007 COUNCIL GRANTS SHOPPERS, DINERS Carrigg’s MORE TICKET-FREE TIME DOWNTOWN OF CARMEL By MARY BROWNFIELD design review board member Michael Lynch, said merchants complained the 90-minute time restrictions scaring “all the PEOPLE OFTEN complain about parking in Carmel. visitors and residents away from the downtown area.” C ARRIGG’ S IS HAVING A S ALE! Ninety minutes is not enough time ... $30 overtime tickets are “That’s where the idea [of extending the parking limits] a drag ... sometimes it takes 15 minutes just to find a spot. came from,” Hazdovac said. In addition, green zones often At the recommendation of police chief George Rawson, go unused, possibly “because we don’t have as many resi- the city council decided Tuesday night at least one of those dent-serving businesses as we annoyances should change. The 90-minute limit imposed used to, so there’s not as much downtown will grow by 30 minutes, and some of the half- need to run in for a quick 15- hour green zones will also become two-hour spots.