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It wasn't my fault I was at Newport Beach's Gulfstream—formerly Cowboy, and the favored pickup joint for at least one guy whose opening gambit is (no shit!), “I own two companies.” No, I blame it all on tall drink of water Cher Greenleaf, who was taking some out-of-town marketing colleagues there for dinner. Of course, …
Photo by Jeanne RiceSoup for breakfast? ¿Porqué no? Among Vietnam and Mexico's many other sociocultural similarities (both screwed by Catholic colonizers, U.S. imperialism and apartment mogul George Argyros), both nations have produced a morning soup that makes cereal apparent for what it is (wet grains, man!) and can smack you out of a stupor. Vietnam's …
JANUARY The realfirst day of the millennium came and went without a hitch. Did anyone really think something bad, evil, deadly, horrific and life-as-we-know-it-altering would ever happen to us? . . . Patti Dalby and ex-boyfriend C. Brooks Brann entered a Newport Beach courtroom to fight for custody of a 125-pound, black-and-tan rottweiler named Guinness. …
Isn't it convenient the way things work out? There's damn little interesting music going on this week—I will admit that Billy Idol is a guilty pleasure, but not guilty enough to make me go see him at the House of Blues on Wednesday and Thursday—and you're probably too busy shopping and caroling to go to …
Media hype over the recent release of the first survey of political and social values in socialist Vietnam ignored evidence of overwhelming opposition to homosexuality and what the government there views as other “social evils.” Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register headlines noted that Vietnamese like their government, army and parliament just fine—results that …
In playwright (and OC Weekly critic) Joel Beers' heavily fictionalized and densely intelligent new play, Prophets Profit and William Blake, Blake is commissioned by entrepreneur George Hayley to create illustrations for a mass-produced version of the Bible under the condition that he not talk politics and keep his “visions to himself.” Those who know Blake …
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Photo by Ken Howard/SCRSouth Coast Repertory has a history of cultivating new playwrights. A few of them fall, anonymous, by the wayside. But many, such as Amy Freed, evolve into masters of the craft. Based on her first major play, Nostalgia, it's a safe bet that English playwright Lucinda Coxon will follow Freed into dramaturgical …
Shallow Hal is your mother's Farrelly Brothers movie, an old-fashioned romantic comedy bearing the message that your parents, assuming they were up to the job, drilled into you: handsome is as handsome does; beauty is skin-deep; it's character, not packaging, that matters. Except that the movie also makes much of one stupendously fat woman and …
Gordon Dillow has been anOrange County Register columnist since the 1990s. We think his prose is getting a bit creaky and clichd. And yet there is something addictive about stringing a bunch of homespun Dillowisms together—it's certainly more entertaining than his normal tripe. Read the following, compiled from lines Dillow's written in the past three …
There's a scene, not quite midway through The Man Who Wasn't There, in which a small-town barber stares at his sleeping wife in the silence of the couple's bedroom. She lies there in shadow, a mystery to him after years of marriage, unaware of his presence. It is the first time in this new Coen …
Photo by Jack GouldOn Oct. 8, Jo Ellen Allen came to visit. Four days earlier, “God Bless America,” my expos on Allen and her husband, Eddie, had appeared on the cover of the Weekly. That story documented Eddie's masterful use of patriotism and religion to (in the words of the judge overseeing Eddie's bankruptcy trial, …