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The past isn't dead—it isn't even past—in The Weight of Water, Kathryn Bigelow's fiercely wrought, if sub-Faulknerian, time twister. Adapted from Anita Shreve's novel, The Weight of Water is a mystery that, like last summer's Possession, proceeds simultaneously on two temporal tracks, with more visceral results. True story: during the night of March 5, 1873, …
Photo by Jay FraleyA 10-minute sketch stretched to an hour and a half, the success of Rude Guerilla's commedia dell'arte Halloween production, Things That Go Bump, depends on how well you know the company and how much you like those interminable Saturday Night Live bits that seem to just keep going. The “plot” centers on …
Playboy’s Nude Playmates hit the newsstands in April, a “Special Edition” bereft of ads, articles and executive gadgetry, nothing but page after page of naked women by the pool; in lakes, mansions and art studios; and on rooftops. Pages 69-71 belong to Elisa Bridges: six photos of her on a white couch in a white …
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Photo by James BunoanThere are an awful lot of retreads out there that don't have dick to do with Postmodernists knowingly “appropriating” the past. Usually, it's a lot more prosaic than that: young women artists excitedly tapping the Power of the P don't know they're following in the footsteps of every female artist of the …
Photo by OCW staffLet me begin this review with a disclaimer: home-made hot sauces kick mass-produced hot sauce's ass any day. Please seek out home-made Mexican and Asian hot sauces. Call my aunt or my friend's mother, each of whom harvest chiles directly from Satan's secret stash. Now, back to the review. I'm a hot-sauce …
By the look on his face on primary election night in March, Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut was high. The source of his bonhomie was not the Heineken in his hand, but the poll results: Bill Simon, darling of the right-wing, had just upset moderate Republican Richard Riordan for the chance to challenge …
Photo by Kassi ShepardFour years ago, the powerful California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) quashed a state investigation into abuses at Corcoran State Prison. Among other things, guards allegedly staged gladiator fights between rival gangmembers and forced particularly bothersome inmates to spend the night with the infamous “Booty Bandit”—a prisoner who had a special penchant …
Last week, President George W. Bush “got tough” with alleged corporate crooks—with some of them, anyway. The papers carried photos of John Rigas and his son Timothy being carted off on charges of looting their company, Adelphia. There were also pics of WorldCom bigs Scott Sullivan and David F. Myers in custody. Sullivan was released …
Photo by Jack GouldAt a recent opening, someone asked me what I thought of the art. “It's fun,” I said and tried to end the conversation there because I really didn't like the questioner. “Fun,” he repeated, his lips curling at my philistine self. “But is it . . . important?“ Yes, he was a …
“There was an awful smell of decay and rot.” That's a Los Angeles Times staffer recalling his first visit back into the Times OC newsroom following an April 21 flood, when a ruptured pipe rendered the building uninhabitable, as it has been for the past three months. Such scant staff as remains of the once …
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Martinis are here and now. They're also yesterday and the day before. They just won't seem to go away but keep getting new life beat into 'em like they're Madonna discovering cowboy hats. Some astute observers say that the only reason people drink martinis is for the packaging: that slender, sexy stemware magically turning whomever …
A film in which a giant space worm named Jeff slithers through the bowels of the New York subway system while an extraterrestrial lingerie model named Serleena toilet-snakes her tongue through the dirtier bits of Rip Torn's brain, Men in Black II(MIIB) may not be the most sophisticated specimen of pop culture's propensity for absorbing …