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Few screen actors have ever been so zestfully hammy, so unrestrainedly, gusto-grabbingly over-the-top as Charles Laughton. He could be subtle when he felt the occasion demanded it, but he far preferred to go after a role like a pit bull goes after a mailman's ankle. Without exception, his performances were the most interesting aspect of …
Photo by Chris ZieglerI spend a lot of time in Huntington Beach. I go there when I want police helicopters to follow me as I walk my dog, when I'd like to contract a non-specific skin condition after a few minutes of frolicking in the surf, or even when I'm feeling down about recent geopolitical …
Photo by Jack GouldPromising confidentiality, your company's top executives ask you to critique the management skills of your lousy supervisor. Do you trust them, tell the truth and risk retaliation? Or do you keep your head down, kiss butt and lie? If you're facing this dilemma, consider the story of Kate Berry, until last month …
Sidecar sound like the Smiths dispatched through an isolation tank, or Julee Cruise trapped in a misty David Lynch dream, or an orchestra of toy instruments searching for a deep bass rhythm. Do you understand now? Or does that sound like an unidentified musical object? Sidecar's Lili De La Mora and Kenny Negrete don't have …
The Distraction The Liquid Den Friday, March 1 Is there life beyond boardshorts and bad blond-tipped dye jobs? Not in Huntington Beach—at least, not till recently. But now strange stirrings on the fringe are starting to make us wonder what else is out there. For starters, some rad drunk dudes. We have a new favorite …
Photo by Yoshitaka Okada March 5, 2002 3:50 p.m. Christian radio station KBRT of Costa Mesa encourages listeners to vote against the “evil, radical, extremist” Gray Davis. 6:34 Pauline Aguilera, a clerk at the adult-entertainment store Nighty's and Naughty's, says no one has come into the store talking about the election. “Mostly, they just come …
“Go fuck yourself.” That was the moment, with dozens of drunken strangers looking on and after hours of cruel laughter, angry glares and repeated humiliation, that I realized my exhaustive investigation into cheesy pickup lines was at an end. We've all seen the lists of “pickup lines to avoid.” They appear on e-mail lists from …
Photo by Jack GouldAs long as he can hold a pen, former Huntington Beach City Councilman Dave Garofalo remains a menace to society. Any doubt about that was removed last week when Orange County Register reporter Jim Hinch revealed that Garofalo wrote himself a check for $11,500 out of the city Conference and Visitors Bureau's …
For those still toiling under the assumptions of Playwrighting 101—that a play isn't a “good” play unless it's plot-heavy and populated by fully “dimensional” characters the audience can truly believe—we submit George Bernard Shaw. Shaw didn't write plays as such; he wrote manifestos promoting his own brand of humanistic socialism. Animated by his eagerness for …
by Richard RossRichard Ross has snapped several photographs of the J. Paul Getty Museum's reconstruction, one of which features a gaping square hole cut into the floor of a room caked with the dust and debris of violent transformation. Around the hole's edge, steep piles of rubble threaten to collapse into the void. From beneath …
HO CHI MINH CITY—It’s Sunday, Dec. 16, moments before 6 a.m. I’m sleeping like a dead man. In my suitcase on the credenza in my hotel room is a copy of UC Irvine’s “World Values Survey 2001—Vietnam.” Back home in Orange County, the study, released in late November, has become a Little Saigon controversy for …
MONDAY, Jan. 7 Newport-Mesa Unified School District trustee Jim Ferryman pleads guilty to a misdemeanor drunk-driving charge, something he hoped would close the book on the case. It didn't. Fellow trustee Wendy Leece, one of those Christian, conservative, Stepford wives who get this time marker's internal gear mechanisms all moist, uses the next board meeting …