The return of Peter Goetz
Peter Goetz plays Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach tomorrow night in the post-premier show after the Taylor Steele’s new film, “This Time Tomorrow.” Agent Orange also plays. Peter Goetz gets around. For the last decade, Goetz has travelled the far-flung corners of the world, working as a crewmember and more recently as a director on television shows such as Survivor and The Amazing Race. He’s been to 65 countries so far and one gets the sense he’s just begun. Goetz, a Mira Costa and UC Berkeley graduate, is the opposite of the ugly American, those prototypical tourists infamous around the globe for bringing cultural arrogance and downright disinterest to the places they visit. Goetz learns languages and studies cultures. Often, when the TV crew picks up and goes home, he stays behind. “That’s always been my goal,” Goetz said. “Trying to represent the exact opposite of what everyone in those countries expects an American to be, especially during the Bush regime – eight years of travelling internationally, I was trying to raise the better side of the American flag.” Six years ago, after three grueling back-to-back-to-back seasons of Survivor, Goetz travelled on his own to Peru and…
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