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# Letter: Santa Monica landlord's rant on rent control and city council
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/072807-story-20070728-9/
- Published: 2007-07-28T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:23:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

“IF I WERE TO MAKE A FILM ON SANTA Monica, I would make it based on the egregious lack of rights for landlords, because I used to be a landlord in this town, so I would make it, and I would cast Mimi Rogers as a landlord, a person I was in acting class with, and Tom Cruise, her ex-husband, as a landlord, too. And I would have star, as Ken Genser on the City Council, Britney Spears, a real lowlife, in my opinion, or Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 28, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/072807.pdf?ref=smdp.com)