The new attorney had a downturned mouth and large, angular ears, the kind of face Walt Disney might use for the arch-villain in a children’s comedy film. Hollywood probably would have named him Hugo.
Thursday, July 30
Wes Alvens was decked out like a cowboy long before you ever slid your tender feet into a pair of citified cowboy boots, and he’ll likely be tucking his riding gloves under his broad leather …
David Bowie was to Phil everything a great human being should be and he emulated him as much as he could in word, thought, and deed. According to Phil, my obsession with the Rolling Stones was antiquated.
Thursday, July 23
It’s been a year and a half since Yurii Aleksandrovich Vetokhin leapt off a Russian cruise ship in the middle of the night and swam for twenty hours through the shark-filled Moluccan Sea. It’s been …
As they continued to descend, the temperature rose, and when they reached the Borrego Badlands, some three hours from the top, the temperature had risen to 106 degrees. “We were amazed at the mountain we came down.”
Thursday, July 16
"I was pregnant with our first child and we were remodeling the house, our first programming was interrupted and the announcer started saying Pearl Harbor was being bombed. At fi we thought it was just …
“Most of the fights are just fist swinging, but I’ve seen people get knocked down on that concrete porch out there and then someone comes along and just pounds their head open."
Thursday, July 9
Even by Texas standards it was a bold and daring exhibition of contemporary art. And while it had a lot to do with the firing of Lefty Adler from his job as director of the …
Thursday, July 2
On the evening of May 23rd, the occasion of the 1981 Mr. and Ms. California bodybuilding contest, I stood concealed behind the side curtains of Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD. In the center of the stage …
“I was here about a year ago, I think they told me last night. It's kind of hard to remember. . . places I go to and how long it’s been, because I don’t think …