A co-worker sent me this - I can't help laughing as I am picturing this happening in my mind. Monroe v. Chewbacca? by Joal Ryan Mon, 9 Jul 2007 02:41:04 PM PDT The performers who work Hollywood Boulevard clad as superheroes and superstars are a family, the family's Elmo says: "We all get along." Well, maybe not always. On Sunday, a Marilyn Monroe look-alike called the cops on a Chewbacca character, reports and Elmo say. Officers took a battery complaint from a Monroe impersonator Sunday at the Hollywood & Highland complex, the outdoor Hollywood mall that serves as home base for the Oscars, LAPD officer April Harding said on Monday. The woman, whose name police declined to reveal, alleged someone touched her on her right shoulder "without her permission," Harding said. She also told officers that about a month ago a man grabbed her hand and placed it on his genitals. It was not known if one person was alleged to have perpetuated both incidents, Harding added. The police report made no note of a certain Wookiee. There are no suspects, Harding said, and police aren't looking for any, either. Reports and Donn Harper, aka Elmo, a Hollywood regular who, like his fellow street performers, dons a character suit and works the boulevard for tips from star-seeking tourists, said a Monroe implicated a Chewbacca in the Sunday incident. Harper said he saw a Chewbacca being questioned by police on Sunday. He believed Monroe became incensed at Chewbacca after some tourists told her she was the worst Marilyn Monroe they'd ever seen. "She went and accused Chewbacca of sending those people over there to say that," Harper said. Harper, for one, was firmly in the Chewbacca's corner: He called the performer a "great guy"; he called the Monroe, in one of his more charitable comments, "a joke." "She's even called the police on me a couple of times," Harper said. The Hollywood Boulevard characters were in the news in February when one of their members—again, a Chewbacca—was arrested for allegedly head-butting a tour guide. Harding said it was not known if Sunday's incident and last winter's featured any of the same players, though according to Harper, it was the same Chewbacca. Also, according to Harper, it was the same bum rap. "That was bulls--t," he said of the head-butting allegation. All in all, Harper maintained, the boulevard gang gets along...with just a few exceptions. Said Harper: "There's one or two rotten apples out there." http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=db8d8121-fb93-4852-a0eb-cc8c9b8f4bee
