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Volume I No: 3 “Where every story is a positive story.” December 2017

Paul Koslo:
A Child of War
Achieves The
‘American
Dream’
Story, Page 3

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Paul Koslo: A Child of War Achieves ‘The American Dream’
By ALLAIRE KOSLO
Contributing Writer
Local actor Paul Koslo’s most recent film credit as Ex-
ecutive Producer of the documentary A Coup in Camelot
shines a new light on the forensics surrounding the fate-
ful day of November 22, 1963, the day President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated.
This film features fresh research with exclusive inter-
views and compelling analysis by top medical, forensic
and research experts.
Paul’s passion for this project is based on when he was
19 years old and he remembers the moment when JFK
died. He was living in Vancouver, British Columbia, and
all of a sudden he heard people shouting outside, and they
were crying and yelling.
He asked “What is going on?” His neighbors told him
that the President had been shot and he recalls chaos in
the streets.
That one moment in time is etched in Paul’s memory,
leaving a deeply profound and lasting impression.
When Bobby Kennedy was assassinated on June 5,
1968, Paul was living in San Francisco.
After he finished a music rehearsal for his band, he went
back to his house. The television was on and the news
was just catching the end of Robert Kennedy’s speech at
The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
He was so upset by the shooting that he took a chair and
threw it at the television.
Born in Germany, emigrated to Canada and moving to
the United States, Paul was devastated to be living in a
country that is so free and yet had such horrific assassi-
nations occur.
So when Paul’s film-making partner, Stephen Goetsch,
producer, writer and director, decided to make A Coup in
Camelot, Paul was completely committed.
He is very proud of this documentary, which he believes
once you watch it, you can look at the findings and come
to your own more fully informed conclusions. The 105
minute story will make you think.
Narrated by Peter Coyote, A Coup in Camelot is Winner
of the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at The Cinema at
the Edge Festival; Official Selection from the Brecken-
ridge Film Festival; Honorable Mention from the High-
land Park Independent Film Festival; and, Official Selec-
tion from Ito/Matsuura Film Series.
A screening was held at The Texas Theatre in Dallas, the
landmark where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. One
reviewer said: “Nothing that I have seen about JFK has
ever come close to the amount of fact and grit that is in
this documentary.”
With the release of more than 2,800 documents relat-
ed to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by
President Trump on October 26, this investigative docu-
mentary is even timelier than ever.
The film is available on amazon.com, Itunes and Vimeo,
and the DVD or Blu-ray can be purchased from www.
acoupincamelot.com
About Paul Koslo
As an actor, Paul has had the opportunity of being in
over 100 films, television shows and involved in over as
many plays.
The story of why Paul (born Manfred Koslowski), want-
ed to become an actor began while growing up in Germa-
ny during World War II, where he vividly remembers the
American soldiers driving through the streets with their
tanks.
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He heard that in America, there were cowboys and In-
dians, and he and his friends would fantasize and play
cowboys and Indians based from these wild stories they
had been told.
At 6 years old, in 1950, Paul’s family emigrated to Can-
ada. He saw his first film, Tarzan, starring Gordon Scott.
The images projected on the wall opened up his imagina-
tion even more, and he made up his mind that he wanted
to be a part of that world.
As Paul Newman said,
“Giving back is just the
right thing to do.”
Fast forward 40 years and Paul had become a working
actor. In a restaurant in Santa Monica, California, Paul
met Gordon Scott.
He shared his story with the actor about his seeing him in
Tarzan, and the impact it had made upon him as a young
child. They hugged each other and both men teared up. It
was a serendipitous moment.
Paul’s dreams came true as he really did get to play
the cowboy parts. He has co-starred opposite John Wayne
and Katharine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn; with Clint
Eastwood in Joe Kidd; with Charlton Heston in the orig-
inal iconic Omega Man; with Paul Newman & Joanne
Woodward in The Drowning Pool; playing a Jewish Con-
centration Camp survivor in the critically acclaimed Voy-
age of the Damned with Orson Welles, and many more.
Paul starred in the science fiction cult classic Robot Jox;
played the Mayor in Heaven’s Gate, and has had a long
run of playing villainous parts, including the founder of
the Ku Klux Klan in Roots II.
Some of Paul’s favorite roles are from Mr. Majestyk,
with Charles Bronson; Vanishing Point, and Bootleggers,
with Jaclyn Smith.
On the internet movie database, he is described as “lean-
faced, intense-looking, usually playing shifty, untrust-
worthy and often downright nasty characters,” but he
says “my mom loves me,” LOL.
The story of why Paul
(born Manfred Koslowski),
wanted to become an actor
began while growing up in
Germany during World War
II, where he vividly remem-
bers the American soldiers
driving through the streets
with their tanks.
The latest advertisement Paul has participated in is for
Elbow Friend. Billboards say: “Legendary Tough Guy is
a big Softie, Paul Koslo, Cushions for your auto, home
and office.”
Paul’s other passions besides acting are his family, build-
ing his dream house, The MET Theatre in Hollywood,
The Rock Inn, and living in the country in Lake Hughes.
He is a lover of trees and has planted hundreds of them,
loves rugby, coaches hockey and tills his land with his
tractors.
Paul’s dream house in Lake Hughes is modernistic
and made of totally recycled materials. This ten year
“green” project on eleven acres of farm land is nearing
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completion.
It is a testament to realizing a vision of an open air,
square floor plan with a vast inner courtyard designed by
Paul’s brother, Canadian architect Georg Koslowski.
With spectacular views from all four directions, the
house has many large windows and unique German tilt
and turn opening glass doors.
Lake Hughes has experienced a drought in the last six
years, and a fire, yet it is still the home of wildlife, beau-
tiful mountains, the Angeles National Forest and Pacific
Crest Trail, “Where Nature is Your Neighbor.”
One can hike, ride motorcycles, bicycles and dine at
the historic Rock Inn full service bar, restaurant and ho-
tel. Built in 1929, Paul’s family has owned The Rock Inn
since 1975.
The original, built of wood, burned down in 1927. It was
re-built made out of river rock hauled up from our local
canyons by the Hurd family.
Also since 1973, Paul has run a live theatre in Hol-
lywood called The MET. The mission of the MET The-
atre has always been to produce new works by American
playwrights.
Two examples are the recent Los Angeles Premiere of
Les Blancs, by Lorraine Hansberry with the Rogue The-
atre Company, and, Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving
Class, which, in 1979 was West Coast Premiere produced
and directed by Paul, starring his theatre partner James
Gammon.
Paul was in the original cast of Hair, on Broadway, and
is a director in the Playwrights and Directors Unit of The
Actor’s Studio. He produces, designs and directs many
plays.
Board members such as Oscar winner Holly Hunter,
Oscar nominated Ed Harris, Laura Owens and Pulitzer
winning Playwright Beth Henley have joined Paul at The
MET over the years.
Paul has been in Lake Hughes for over 45 years. Both
Paul’s daughter, 20 year old Chloe, a junior at the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, and his wife, Allaire, have
been mayor of Lake Hughes for multiple terms, and as
a family they are devoted volunteers and fundraisers for
the Paul Newman Painted Turtle Camp for children with
serious medical conditions.
Chloe is a member of the co-ed Cinema Fraternity DKA,
Delta Kappa Alpha, where George Lucas is a member,
and their philanthropy is for Paul Newman’s serious fun
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Breaking the Clovis Barrier: Part I
By DR. BRUCE LOVE
Real Archaeology
Contributing Writer
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier right here in
the AV, as we proudly tell visitors, but so far the Clovis
barrier has not been broken, at least not yet, not here.
Clovis is a type of stone point, a large spear point,
named after a site near Clovis, New Mexico. Discov-
ered back in the 1920s, since that time archaeologists
have found them throughout North America and Mex-
ico (and some in South America).
They are highly distinctive and easily recognized by
their large size (compared to arrow points) and telltale
fluting, the concave groove that reaches from the base
up to around mid-point.
This fluting served the same purpose as fluting on
bayonets and hunting knives, allowing the blade to be
thrust in deep and quickly drawn back out.
Thrust into what? Wooly mammoths, giant bison, and
other Ice Age mega-fauna, large mammals that went
extinct some 10,000 years ago. Several mammoth kill
sites have been excavated by archaeologists in the
U.S. where mammoth remains and Clovis points were
found together, as well as stone-age tools for butcher-
ing, skinning and evidence of roasting.
Ice Age hunters attached these precision-made stone
points to wooden shafts and killed their prey by get-
ting close enough to thrust the points deep into these
giant mammals.
It wasn’t until the C-14 revolution of the 1950s that
these points could be accurately dated, so with the de-
velopment of radiocarbon dating came knowledge of
the age of Clovis points and the people who used them.
Surprisingly, they all dated from a very short period
of time: a 500-year period from 11,200 to 10,700 years
ago. At least one has been found here at Edwards Air
Force Base, and others are documented from China
Lake near Ridgecrest.
Up until 20 years ago, respected academic archae-
ologists and top scholars in the field agreed there was
no solid proof of people living in the Americas earlier
than the people associated with Clovis sites, and thus
the term “Clovis barrier” arose.
For some 45 years, from the invention of C-14 dating
to the mid-1990s, all claims to archaeological sites in
the Americas older that 11,200 years were found lack-
ing in solid proof, so the Clovis barrier held.
In Part II, we’ll witness the breach of the Clovis bar-
rier at sites in North and South America, but here in
the AV, there are no sites older than Clovis…yet.
Kelso’s Choices Empowering Elementary Students
By LANCASTER SCHOOL DISTRICT
Have you seen a green frog making his way to some of
our elementary campuses?
The students know him well. His name is Kelso.
Kelso’s Choice is a curriculum to teach conflict reso-
lution skills piloted at El Dorado two years ago by Sara
Rust, school counselor.
Due to the success observed at El Dorado, other cam-
puses jumped on board, including Linda Verde, Joshua,
Crossroads, and Piute.
The school counselors at these schools have presented a
series of lessons in classrooms all over campus.
By the end of the school year, Zaira Latham, the coun-
selor at Linda Verde, will have completed 256 presen-
tations that include presentations in the Dual Language
Immersion classes and Special Day Classes.
Kelso’s Choice is a Universal Intervention, part of Pos-
itive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), so the
program is schoolwide.
Heather Fritz, teacher at Linda Verde, reports that the
“program pairs really well with Second Step” and it is
“beneficial on the playground and in the classroom.”
Cassandra Garret, teacher at Joshua, says, “When I hear
students start a sentence with ‘Kelso says,’ I know they
are taking responsibility for the situation and their ac-
tions.”
Students are first taught to discriminate between “big”
problems that must be shared with an adult, and “small”
problems they are able to solve by themselves.
If the student is dealing with a “small” problem, Kelso
encourages the students to choose from a wheel of nine
choices.
Choices include “wait and cool off,” and “go to anoth-
er game,” and “talk it out,” and “share and take turns,”
among other options.
Lessons provide an in-depth explanation of each prob-
lem-solving choice, reinforced with role-playing, a class
discussion, and a visit from the Kelso puppet (which hap-
pens to be anxiously anticipated even by 5th graders).
The school counselor at Piute, Elizabeth Guijarro, states
that, “The majority of our 6th grade students are familiar
with Kelso’s choices; they know the terminology and the
purpose behind the Kelso’s Choice curriculum. Elemen-
tary counselors have done an amazing job with teaching
students these skills!” 
Elizabeth is teaching the students Kelso Choice lessons
in the STAR 6 class and has seen success so far.
Last school year, students at El Dorado used over 1,000
choices and were able to duct tape their principal, Todd
Coleman, to a wall.
Mr. Coleman reports that he “…always starts the morn-
ings with an announcement reminding students to use
their choices. Students who have had a behavioral issue
are often first asked if they used their Kelso’s Choices.”
All staff members speak about Kelso’s Choice and the
safety staff even wear the nine choices on their vests.
The primary students at Crossroads were introduced to
Kelso’s Choice at the beginning of the 2017-18 school
year.
The counselor, Nathan Herrera, reports that the program
“…definitely helps in creating expectations, giving op-
tions, and allowing the teachers and myself to have a bet-
ter conversation with our students.”
Sunnydale will be implementing Kelso’s Choice start-
ing the second semester of this school year and Princi-
pal Paulette Volmer is eager to see the positive results
there too.
As the Kelso’s Choice program spreads around the dis-
trict, more and more kids are making better choices.
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camps where she has been a counselor as
well.
Chloe is involved with film, as well as
studying Environmental Science and
playing Women’s Rugby.
Thus it is a full karmic circle of acting
and giving back for the Koslo family in
Hollywood and Lake Hughes both.
As Paul Newman said, “Giving back is
just the right thing to do.”
Paul’s first ranch was ten acres on Munz
Ranch Road where he raised Appaloosa
horses.
There, his childhood dream of being an
American cowboy in real life was real-
ized.
He produced and shot the film Alive
or Dead in 2008 at Shea Castle near his
ranch and other locations here in the An-
telope Valley.
Other Westerns Paul has been in are:
Louis L’Amour’s The Sacketts; Conagh-
er; Gunsmoke; The Gambler; Scandalous
John; Daughters to Joshua Cabe; How
the West Was Won; and action movies
such as Welcome Home, Soldier Boys; The
Losers; and, Pulp Fiction.
Paul feels very fortunate to have been
able to work with some of the world’s
greatest actors and has many fabulous and
original experiences and stories; stories
that will have to be for a book perhaps,
because it is too long in the telling here.
One of Paul’s friends, actor Martin Kove
said: “Paul lives to work, while some of us
work to live.”
He is an extremely hard worker and a
perfectionist with a keen eye to detail and
cleanliness. He demands it of himself and
expects it from others.
The culmination of Paul Koslo’s hard
work and dreams will become realized
when he is able to move into his new
home, which started as just an idea a de-
cade ago, and, as he says, is “where the
antelope are gone, but the deer are still
here.”
“SUCCESS”
is what you make it.
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Where Pavement Ends
Fore Play
and Dirt Begins
By LARRY HOBSON PAUL MATTSON
Publisher Contributing Writer
How many times have you traveled on “We Americans don’t understand what we want but we are ready to bite somebody
paved lanes of the highway and pass all to get it.” – Will Rogers, American Humorist, Social and Political Commentator
the dirt roads leading off to who knows No self-respecting general would send his troops into combat without a clearly
where? You’re always in a hurry to get to defined mission. Before you arrive at the golf course, you must know what it is you
here or there, and really never see what wish to accomplish.
you’re missing. On some days, setting a realistic primary goal will be easy. It might be simply to 1:
People living in the city just don’t know Shoot the best round of your life; 2: Take the most skins; 3: Win the scramble; or, 4:
what they’re missing. They live in the Finally beat your toughest opponent.
asphalt jungle of pavement, pushed up Whatever your goal, it will ultimately be achieved with a strength of will!
against their neighbor. They lock them- But there will be days when flexibility is required and certain goals present a conflict
selves in from what may lurk outside. of interest. For example: What if you’re playing with your boss or important client?
Some try to escape by moving just out- Or a close childhood friend?
side city limits into the new housing track Golf is War!! But it’s meant to be played for fun and to learn your strengths and
with that so-called “country living,” but weaknesses.
they bring city life with them. True escape Know yourself to understand the game.
is further off the pavement where you Keep Swinging Easy
won’t find new housing tracks.
The person hunting for that relaxing life
must steer their car off the pavement and
hit the bump where the pavement ends and
the dirt begins. It’s the dirt road that gives
that new car the real “road test,” and that
radiant new paint job that dirty look of
dust and mud.
After it rains out in the real country, the
weeds along the road grow wild and the
sunflowers poke their heads above the
weeds. Water sits in the ditch on both sides
of the road, and frogs make their home.
Now you’re on the right road. No more
lines to wait in as long as you stay on the
dirt. As you drive along, you see all kinds
of people, rich and poor, sharing some-
thing that is disappearing: farm life.
On one side of the road you see the iron
gate with stone columns on each side, with
pipe arch crossing from one column to the
next, and in the center, the large, broken
iron bell hangs. Above that, a sign reading
“Broken Bell Ranch.”
On the other side of the road is the small,
white house with clothes hanging on the
clothes line, and five kids running around,
playing. A broken-down tractor with
weeds covering most of it sits in the field.
The pickup truck in the driveway displays
a shotgun in the back window. Alongside
the house grows the garden, and out back
stands the milk cow, with her partner, the
bull.
You won’t find the crime out here like in
the city. People out here don’t put up with
crime.
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Holiday Plants that are
Dangerous for Pets
By MARILYN DALRYMPLE
Contributing Writer
The holidays are here and most like to decorate with
living plants and greenery.
Certain indoor plants can cause indigestion, severe
health problems and even death to our pets, so we need
to know which are safe and which aren’t.
Following is a brief list of popular holiday plants that
should be kept away from your pets.
Poinsettias: Although not poisonous, the sap irritates
the esophagus lining and mouth. Leaves can cause nau-
sea and vomiting. Also, they may have been sprayed
with toxic chemicals.
Daffodils and Lilies: The plant bulbs are highly toxic,
as are the plants to dogs and cats.
Christmas Trees: Pine needles contain oil that can
cause gastronomical upsets. Both real and fake Christ-
mas tree needles can cause obstructions and punctures
in the intestines.
Water under the tree can cause concern, also as it can
contain bacteria, mold, and fertilizers.
Holly and Mistletoe: These plants and their berries
are very toxic to cats and dogs.
Amaryllis: The amaryllis bulb is said to be more dan-
gerous than the flowers and stalks. The bulb and plant
toxins can cause vomiting, depression, diarrhea, ab-
dominal pain, hypersalivation, anorexia, and tremors
in cats and dogs.
Christmas Cactus: Although not toxic, the plant ma-
terial can cause irritation to the stomach and intes-
tines.
One man’s annual tribute to our
veterans inspired a legion of volun-
teers, and gave rise to the “Wreaths
Across America” of today.
This event will take place on Dec. 16
at 9am at Lancaster Cemetery,
at 111 East Lancaster Blvd.
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a “Success is more permanent when you achieve
lot of that comes from bad judgment.” - Will Rogers it without destroying your principles.” - Walter Cronkite
The Journey that changed my life
By TOM MORIARTY
Contributing Writer
About four months ago, I was tired and depressed most of the time and laying in bed watching TV and falling
asleep. I was pushing 200 pounds and feeling terrible most of the time. Meanwhile, my wife had discovered Zumba
and was up to five nights a week. I saw very little of her. She was always complaining about my sleeping, and how
big my belly was getting. My wife was leaving me behind and I knew I had to do something about it or, may lose her.
I have a diagnosis that I need my left knee replaced, but I am still able to ski on it. Therefore, I tried to start run-
ning again (in my younger days I was near a national class distance runner with Olympic dreams) but with the knee
I was not able to run. So I began to walk a couple of miles each day and that got me going. Next thing I did was
cold turkey the drinking of Cokes, and that made a big difference.
After a couple of weeks I dropped a couple of pounds, but gained them right back right. So while I’m wondering
what the heck, I did some research and learned that as you start to get back into shape, you will lose some fat, but as
your muscles rebuild, that will add some weight. So I stopped worrying about the slow start and kept going.
I learned that if you go hiking in the mountains, you can do a whole lot more miles easily due to the pleasant scen-
ery around you. Wrightwood and the trails of the Angeles National Forest as less than an hour away, so I went up
there several times a week. That really got me going. So did the poppy fields, Lancaster Prime Desert Preserve and
the Pelona Vista Park Cross Country running trails. I always try to stay on dirt, and I now do a hike of a minimum
three miles per day and up to eight miles.
As you start to see some substantial results it is easier to do more and more, as now it is in your brain that you
can make this happen. I then started swimming at Eastside Pool, and did what I could do to start. I started with 500
meters (20 laps) in intervals of 200 meters and 100 meters, with rest in between till I could do 500 without stopping.
I have since switched to the YMCA, which is a much nicer pool (and cleaner that Eastside).
Today I am up to 2,000 meters every day and swimming a mile straight without stopping. Swimming produces
results and is easier on your body. So I am walking/hiking and swimming every day and the weight is coming off,
but my mind says MORE!
I have now incorporated the “Exercycyle” onto the mix. Instead of lying in bed or the couch to watch my favorite
shows, I now ride the “Exercycle” while I watch for a minimum of 30 minutes and up to an hour. I’m now riding
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‘Angels of Our Better Nature’
By MOE KOLTUN
Nandar Pictures
Contributing Writer
Angels of Our Better Nature is
a powerful new documentary dis-
tributed by Nandar Pictures about
the men and women working on
the front lines to combat the home-
less crisis in America.
I attended the film’s premier in North
Hollywood on November 11, and during
the Q&A that followed the screening, di-
rector Douglas Proce said he made the
movie not only to showcase conditions
among the homeless, but more so to
highlight “the people who are doing the
heavy lifting” to try to bring about active
solutions to this problem in their local
communities.
Proce focused on these subjects, name-
ly Jon Linton of the “I Have A Name
Project” and “Lets Be Better Humans”;
Elvis Summers of “Tiny Houses, Huge
Purpose,”; Maike Both of “Unfuck The
World” and “A Million Drops,”; and,
Ari Beers, because they actively en-
gage with changing their communities
on the ground level, a theme that echoes
throughout the film in quotes that appear
on screen.
These quotes serve as interstitial thread
that thematically ties the stories together,
while also contextualizing the featured
current activists in a historical frame-
work that harkens back to the likes of
Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Edward Everett Hale and Ma-
hatma Gandhi.
Though Proce lived a whole life and
worked a long series of odd jobs before
becoming a filmmaker, including work-
ing as a firefighter, EMT and musician,
he first became fascinated by documen-
taries as a kid after Errol Morris’ The
Thin Blue Line made him realize that
“film can really have an impact.”
For those unaware, The Thin Blue Line
helped get an innocent man off of death
row.
Proce’s primary aim in making docu-
mentaries is to cause audiences to rethink
their behavior and the ways they can im-
pact their community.
Proce’s attitude is, “If you want to in-
spire people, turn the camera on inspir-
ing people.”
Indeed the narrative of Angels of Our
Better Nature weaves through a series
of extremely captivating selfless indi-
viduals. The film begins by focusing on
Proce’s longtime acquaintance, photog-
rapher and activist Jon Linton, who is
based in the Phoenix, Arizona, area.
Linton first approached Proce about
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documenting part of his “Let’s Be Better
Humans” project.
Near the beginning of the film, Linton
tells the story of what prompted him to
get involved with his local homeless
community.
The story revolves around one of his
good friends, a family man, spiraling into
addiction and homelessness, and ultimate-
ly losing his family.
This and other incidents inspired Jon
to found the “I Have A Name Project,” a
photography non-profit with the mission
of making viewers empathize with home-
less people and see them as individuals by
titling each photo with the homeless sub-
ject’s name.
This opening segment of the film is quite
powerful, because of Linton’s talent as a
photographer and also because – through
his stories – Linton’s passion for his proj-
ects is palpable.
His story
resonated
with me,
and while
watching
the begin-
ning of
the film
I flashed
back to a
moment
from when
I was little,
after I once
asked my
father why he gave a crazy-looking home-
less man a dollar.
My dad replied, though he has never been
a particularly religious man, “If not for the
grace of God, that could be me.”
Jon Linton eventually founded a new
non-profit project called “Let’s Be Better
Humans,” part of which included pur-
chasing a bus, painting it bright colors
and inscribing it with the phrase “Let’s
Be Better Humans,” to try to remind peo-
ple to be kind and caring toward one an-
other.
On this bus, the documentary follows
Linton on a road trip from Phoenix to Los
Angeles. Along the way, the film captures
a powerful impromptu moment where Lin-
ton runs into an elderly homeless woman
near the ocean in Redondo Beach.
After the interaction, Linton launches
into an emotional monologue, despair-
ing about what kind of uncaring modern
world would allow a 70-year-old wom-
an in a wheelchair to spend days on end,
alone, outdoors, without even speaking
with another person.
He adds that the woman considers each
of her interactions with another human be-
ing a divine intervention from Jesus.
After watching Linton, the viewer is in-
clined to consider that there may perhaps
be something Saintly about his and the
other activists’ efforts.
After this incident, the bus arrives in L.A.,
where Jon catches up with Elvis Summers,
founder of “Tiny House, Huge Purpose,”
an organization which combats the home-
less problem in Los Angeles head-on by
building small one-room houses and dis-
tributing them directly to homeless indi-
viduals.
Summers is an intense but compassionate
guy who (though the film doesn’t mention
this) wears body armor to do his work for
practical safety reasons.
This segment of the film concretizes the
labors of every other activist, as there is
something uniquely tangible about “Tiny
House, Huge Purpose” – you see the
minimalistic four-wall structures his or-
ganization
builds,
outfitted
with a proceeds to charity.”
bed, win-
dows, a eventually decided to scale things up and
peephole,
and even
a lock and
key.
In oth-
er words,
contained
in each of
Summers’s
houses is the bare bones of what one might
need for a home, and you could imagine
the homeless community vacating street
corners and instead populating these tiny
houses, one by one.
However, Elvis imparts a demoralizing
story about the local Los Angeles police
not supporting his efforts, and in fact forc-
ing him to remove some of the homes
from overpasses.
The penalty for leaving the houses on
public property is their confiscation and
likely destruction.
Elvis is frustrated that the government
would rather let the houses rot in a junk-
yard than help at least some of the people
who need them, but that isn’t going to stop
him from continuing to try to help.
And, Summers does note near the end
with a little gleam of hope, there are many
of his houses still hidden on private prop-
erty that he believes the government will
never locate.
Next, Jon Linton catches up with Maike
Both, who I also had the pleasure of meet-
ing and speaking with after the screening
of the film.
Maike is a positive, bright woman with
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an entrepreneurial spirit – within seconds
of meeting with her, Maike had already
handed me an “A Million Drops” flyer
and encouraged me to check out their up-
coming events.
Over eleven years ago, Maike says she
stumbled upon the phrase “Unfuck the
World” somewhere, and it stuck like a
dart in her mind.
Eventually she made herself a t-shirt,
and got so many compliments on it that
she had a few more printed.
The story revolves
around one of his good
friends, a family man,
spiraling into addiction
and homelessness,
and ultimately losing
his family.
Maike explained, “People would say,
‘Oh, that’s a great shirt,’ and I’d say, ‘Oh,
I have one in my car.’ But from the be-
ginning it was always about donating the
And as “Unfuck the World” grew, Maike
launch her own holiday.
Since 2013, “Unfuck the World Day”
has been held annually on the second
Saturday of June. The holiday occurs all
around the world, and to officially qual-
ify community groups must submit an
application to be reviewed by Maike and
her board members.
The main qualification is doing a positive
local action. “It could be inviting friends
to make sandwiches for the homeless, or
collecting items for an animal shelter, or
cleaning a playground, or planting trees,
so it doesn’t have to be homelessness,”
said Maike.
As the name states, Maike just wants
people to “Unfuck the World,” little by
little.
My dad replied,
though he has never
been a particularly re-
ligious man, “If not for
the grace of God, that
could be me.”
One other way Maike is helping to
make the world a better place is through
her other non-profit group, “A Million
Drops,” which focuses on helping home-
less children and teens (though they open
their doors to anybody who comes to
their events).
Maike wanted to make sure to note
that “Unfuck the World” and “A Million
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Drops” are more than just a once-per-year holiday, and they have ongoing events in the
L.A. area, including an art show, giveaways and free monthly laundry.
The film makes its stop in Skid Row, Los Angeles, which is a dangerous area that is
densely populated by homeless people. Here, Jon Linton talks to activist Ari Beers,
who specializes in supporting this neighborhood.
Jon tells a story about doing a promotion where he was sent to Skid Row to give away
500 pairs of socks, and ended up running out of socks within half an hour.
It is this kind of insatiable need that is representative of Skid Row, and though Ari
Beers often ventures into this neighborhood to give out supplies, there are whole
blocks where even her organization won’t enter because it’s too risky.
Ari relays a harrowing story about witnessing a homeless group argument that sud-
denly broke out into a brutal knife fight.
Going to Skid Row is the kind of experience director Douglas Prost says he struggles
to capture on film, as there’s a heaviness in the air you feel when you’re there that you
can’t quite communicate visually.
“You’re in Chinatown and you make a couple lefts and a couple rights and you’re in
a completely different world,” said Prost. “It makes you ask yourself: ‘Am I still in
America?’”
This question lingers in the viewer’s mind as the credits roll: “Is there something I can
do?”
And that is the documentary’s entire aim - to pull out the titular “Angels of Our Better
Nature” in the viewers themselves.
If you’re interested in connecting with your better self, you can purchase the film on
Amazon Prime as of November 28, and copies will also be available at Walmart, Best
Buy, and other retailers. Five percent of all proceeds from the film will be dedicated to
the non-profit groups featured.
As for what’s next with Douglas Proce, he is currently working on three separate
documentaries right now. One is with his girlfriend and is about the “Power of for-
giveness to help the people who have suffered trauma to live a more fulfilling life of
abundance,” said Proce.
One is about “sustainability and the changing way that people look at community,”
and one “on the Arizona child welfare act,” which is something that is extremely per-
sonal to Proce since he grew up an orphan.
To keep up with Proce’s work, follow him on Facebook, and also be sure to like the
Facebook page of “Angels of Our Better Nature.” Follow Moe on twitter @moeprob-
lems or email him at moekoltun@gmail.com. Also check out his podcast ‘Reel Talk’
on Soundcloud or iTunes.
Moe Koltun is a freelance writer for Nandar Pictures, LLC. Nandar Pictures LLC - a
global sales and distribution company - and Nandar Entertainment, which is an inde-
pendent production company. Nandar at: mail@nandarentertainment.com.