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In 1974, Robert Towne was seething on the lot where his most famous script, Chinatown, was being shot. When I interviewed him at the time, he was appalled at director Roman...
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Before the interview is to begin with Knack front man Doug Fieger, the man would first like to ask his own question. "I was wondering, why do you want to do an interview with...
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The year is 1961, and people are not very interested in cookbooks. Only 49 cookbooks were published the year before, and even the redoubtable Julia Child is having a difficult...
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One True Thing, directed by Carl Franklin, is trying to be the Terms of Endearment of the Nineties. Scripted by Karen Croner from the 1995 Anna Quindlen novel of the same...
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Anybody who doubts the phallocentric theory of history need only hear the tale of the Athenian General Alcibiades (circa 450-404 B.C.)--as it is told, at least, by Alan J.M....
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Public-address announcer Jeff Munn skitters down the stairs to his press-box seat high above Sun Devil Stadium.
His heart still pounds after his frenzied drive from...
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As yet another scalp-searing summer draws to a close, the local gentry at Casey Moore's seem suitably pacified with drink and the promise of cooler temperatures just around...
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The title Post Coitum derives, presumably, from the ancient Latin aphorism "post coitum omne animal triste"--every creature is sad after sex. The creature with which this...
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The Galapagos tortoise lumbers along slowly in its outdoor enclosure at the Phoenix Zoo, plodding in the general direction of its less flamboyantly active companion. As I...
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A leg brace, a debilitating disease, sexual frustration, and Jackie Kennedy hair--breathes there a movie actress anywhere who could resist such fare? They're as seductive as...
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thursday
september 17
Those of us who feel inadequate should take heart to learn that even the Grand Canyon wasn't always so honkin' grand. Historian Stephen J. Pyne is...
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Sex, Lies & More Lies
There's a canker on the presidency--and the Flash has been besieged by loyal readers who pine for a cure.
The Flash suggests a Congressional...
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Hole
Celebrity Skin
(DGC Records)
Courtney Love is nothing if not self-aware. So it makes sense that she titled her first post-Hollywood album Celebrity Skin, because...
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A new state audit confirms the same old ills at the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners. BOMEX, created to protect the public from dangerous doctors, suffers from a weak spine...
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Big Mama was fuming.
The notorious nighttime DJ for KPTY-Party 103.9 FM had come into the station's office on September 8 to find that Valley parents were calling in to...
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Jackie Chan's American fans--and I include myself among them--have suffered through a nervous 1998 so far. The momentum the star earned with the 1996 release of Rumble in the...
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While several reporters listened in on a news conference call, Lisa Allen, spokeswoman for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, broke the law:
"Good afternoon, this is Lisa Allen with the...
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As Arizona's utilities grapple with the problems of deregulation, the chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission is trying to get more regulation of one power company--and...
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No Mere Mr. Nice Guy
The article on Travis Lee ("St. Travis at the Bat," Michael Kiefer, September 3) was awesome. I never knew how "nice" a guy Travis was. I had seen him...
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Bill Clinton won here in 1996, but two years later Arizona remains a one-party state--Republican.
In this election year, the Arizona Democrats are pluckily predicting...
