Do bad neighbors make bad Wire Fence? I’ve seen a few Wire Fence in my time, but none quite as defiantly ugly as the one now shielding Sarah Palin and her family from what she suggests are the prying eyes of her new neighbor, an author named Joe McGinniss.

McGinniss wanted to rent a place in Wasilla, Alaska, to be close to the subject of his next book, the state’s former governor, who is one of the hottest political celebrities of the moment. McGinniss hit the bull’s-eye when Sarah and Todd Palin’s next-door neighbor offered to rent him her rambler for the summer. A modest abode, it sits uncomfortably cheek by jowl with the Palins’ beachlike house, a contemporary-style mansion with tall picture windows overlooking the water. Up went the fence, in a hurry.

As a prop in the theater of contemporary politics, the screen is a masterstroke. This billboard of a Barbed Wire Fence looks like the Wire Fence makeshift response of a woman protecting her besieged family from a loathsome spy. Writes Palin on her Facebook page: “Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?” This, in turn, spawned ugly and threatening responses against McGinniss. “She’s pushed a button, and unleashed the hounds of hell,” McGinniss told NBC’s Matt Lauer.

However genuine the motives behind the fence, from a design, horticultural and sheer aesthetic standpoint, it looks like a disaster.

It rises to 14 feet or so, though the exact height shifts with its curious undulations. Instead of the standard approach of taking down the existing fence and replacing it with another, Todd’s fence crew simply attached one wooden privacy fence on top of an existing one. Perhaps the idea is to remove the appendage when McGinniss moves on.

A fence of such towering presence would not be allowed in many communities across the land, including the Wire Fence the Virginia and Maryland suburbs. When I had a master carpenter install a six-foot cedar board fence in my back yard, an inspector from the local government invited himself onto the property with a tape measure. My son, who was about 10 at the time, recounted the visit when I got home from work. It’s enough to make you join the “tea party.”
But lofty Wire Fence come at a price. In trying to shut out the world, you can give your garden all the joy of a prison yard. And instant, tall Wire Fence play havoc with one’s little eco-system. Plants that were growing happily in sunlight find themselves smothered in shade, and the air becomes stagnant, perfect for fungal diseases.

While many jurisdictions limit Wire Fence Mesh heights to six or seven feet, lower in front, there are ways to get around the limit. Trees and hedges can form the building blocks of house-high screens, though some are more artful and subtle than others. Whether they’re famous or not, privacy is one of the primary goals of homeowners seeking to renovate their gardens, said Guy Williams, president of DCA Landscape Architects in Georgetown.

“What we try to do is define areas most in need of privacy screens and try to be creative, with a combination of Wire Fence,” he said, “and we also try to plan for the future.”

But some clients with a deep need not to be seen and even deeper pockets demand such things as 18-foot hollies planted root ball to root ball. “But there are paybacks” for such instant gratification, said Williams. Trees need their own space, below ground as well as above, and if you plant big ones close together, you either have to keep them clipped as hedges, a major maintenance commitment, or remove some as they get congested.

If you want to see screening at its best, hop on one of the many crowded tour buses crammed with sightseers looking for the rich, the famous, the beautiful in Beverly Hills. What do they see? Pillars, Galvanized Wire Fence, trees, hedges, gatehouses, the glimpses of roofs — in short, not a thing. Do they feel cheated? “Many riders think it’s not worth it,” said Lindsay Blake, a celebrity watcher and blogger in Pasadena .”But a lot of people have never been to Hollywood, so just seeing Jennifer Aniston’s fence is exciting.”

Gary Gold, vice president of Hilton and Hyland, real estate brokers to the stars, says some clients create privacy with Wire Fence and ficus hedges, but those who are super-private either buy into gated communities or acquire neighboring properties to control who lives there or how they are developed. For fun, his colleagues recently hired a tour bus, anonymously, to see Beverly Hills and Bel Air as tourists. “The tour guides had it so wrong — who lives there, who used to live there, what it sold for. It was hilarious,” he said.

Wire Fence - New information surfaced Wednesday about a boy whose late night mischief came to a deadly end at an Indianapolis pool.

Metro Police pulled the body of 13-year-old Timothy Bray from the Douglass Park Pool late Tuesday night. They say he and two friends went to the pool at about 10 p.m., scaled the Wire Fence and Bray somehow ended up in the deep end of the pool and struggled.

But police say those friends didn’t call 911 right away because they didn’t want to get in trouble for scaling the Wire Fence Mesh. So, they ran home and a parent returned to the pool and called 911. By then, it was too late, Bray was dead.

Today 24-Hour News 8 spoke with one of the lifeguards at Douglass Park Pool who says he knew Timothy Bray pretty well. And Thomas admits Bray wasn’t that great of a swimmer. “I mean he never really swam he would just be in like the 3’7″ area and just kind of wade in the water. But as far as like kicking and paddling, he was never a great swimmer. He could swim you know what I mean, just on a float.” said Thomas.

The Wire Fence the boys scaled meets Indiana code at 6 feet tall. But, neighborhood children told 24-Hour News 8 it isn’t uncommon for kids to climb the Wire Fence after hours and go for a swim.

When Thomas learned what happened, he said he couldn’t believe it. “I think that was just influences of friends really.” said Thomas.

The Barbed Wire Fence was closed Wednesday however, we’re told it’s expected to re-open Thursday.

With the news that the final episode of 24 will air May 24 came the added quote that Kiefer Sutherland and his fellow producers hope to make a 24 feature film. Sutherland: “There has been a demand and an c in a 24 film, which would be a two-hour representation of a 24-hour day.”
Sutherland has expressed this idea before, of course. In 2006, Sutherland told an interviewer, “The script is actually in development right now.” At that point, the star had hoped to shoot a film during the break between TV seasons. The current screenplay is being written by Billy Ray (State of Play).
But we should help out old Jack Bauer in the die casting, don’t you think?
First of all, who should direct a 24 movie? My choice: Paul Greengrass, the Bourne Identity sequel master. Who’s your pick?
Next: Who should play the President of the United States, always a pivotal role. Hmmm,  if it’s a man, I’d say Morgan Freeman. Too obvious? Perhaps lure Gene Hackman out of semi-c? If it’s a woman… um, Meryl Streep? Helen Mirren with an American accent? Betty White?
How about a villain? Since on the TV series these have ranged from Sarah Clarke’s Nina Myers  to Jon Voight’s Jonas Hodges, the field is wide open. I’d say let’s try to cast against type. I choose… Patton Oswalt! Or how about stunt-casting: Who wouldn’t want to see Jack Bauer torture a terrorist played by Jon Gosselin?
Okay, the three categories:
Director, President, and Villain for a 24 feature film: Who do you pick?

We’ve got some new die casting information to share with you, so get ready to get those applications filled out and audition jitters under control!
First up, there are a couple more dates added to the Family Feud casting tour. Here’s the info you need, including the already-announced call in Orlando, Florida next weekend:
Orlando, Florida – April 7th to 11th, email orlando@familytryouts.com for details
Boston, Massachusetts – April 17th – 18th, email boston@familytryouts.com for details
Miami, Florida – April 24th – 25th, email miami@familytryouts.com for details
If you’d prefer to get the info by phone, you can call 323-762-8467 for details on any of the Family Feud open calls.
Along with the Feud casting calls comes some big news: the show will now be taping in Orlando at c, beginning July 10th.
In other casting news, if you’re interested in the new ABC/Mark Burnett project, Trust Me, I’m a Game Show Host, there’s a casting call posted at Craigslist looking for contestants. Here’s the stuff you need to know before you apply: “You must be 18 years of age, a U.S citizen and be able to get yourself to Los Angeles for the audition and taping of the show.”
Don’t forget, casting is still open for both Minute to Win It, which should be adding new dates soon, and GSN’s Baggage
Looks like the game show casting season is well underway! Is it just me, or are we just a little early this year?

Who needs press releases? Not Tom Hanks, that’s for sure – and certainly not when he has the powers of the Magical Interwebs and Twitter at his disposal. As he gears up to start directing/starring in the comedy Larry Crowne for Universal, he’s gone and revealed most of his fellow main cast.
Thanks to a Twitpic from his account of the die casting board in the film’s production office, Hanks has announced that the likes of Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Cedric the Entertainer, Rami Malek, George Takei, Dale Dye, Peter Scolari, Bryan Cranston, Wilmer Valderrama (who he’d previously talked about on Twitter). Taraji P Henson, Jon Seda, Maria Canals Barrera and Holmes Osborne. They’ll feature alongside Hanks and co-star Julia Roberts.
Mbatha-Raw is better know for her turn as Martha Jones’ sister on Doctor Who, whiles the rest are a blend of well-known and up-and-coming actors and character types. There are more to come, though – as the pic’s title makes clear, the casting board is by no means complete.
Crowne, co-written by Hanks and Nia Vardalos finds him as a man in need of re-invention and searching for his perfect new career. Sounds like Hanks already has a glowing career in stealth PR waiting for him.
James White