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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, …
Anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of a woman's voice knows that among all the terrors Ulysses encountered, the most dangerous by far were the sirens, alluring women whose voices worked like a swinging pocket watch on men's minds—or maybe more organic parts of the anatomy. Not so surprisingly, such women can be …
Anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of a woman's voice knows that among all the terrors Ulysses encountered, the most dangerous by far were the sirens, alluring women whose voices worked like a swinging pocket watch on men's minds—or maybe more organic parts of the anatomy. Not so surprisingly, such women can be …
Photo by Myles RobinsonDocuments obtained by the Weekly show that county officials and the Navy are engaged in a quiet battle over an explosive discovery: radioactive ground water beneath the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. In January, two county consultants reviewing a government report found evidence that the Navy had detected radioactive contaminants called …
He is a financial genius who manages “assets in the billions” for wealthy investors; earned a law degree at Harvard University; played baseball for the New York Yankees; flew Air Force One for President John F. Kennedy; and, as a colonel in the Air Force, was injured and held as a POW in the 1960s …
A peaceful, unprepared western nation is attacked by an unnamed enemy. The bloody conflict drags on for decades, and civilization is eventually buried beneath miles of smoking rubble. Plague and pestilence shadow the land. A swaggering, fur-clad warlord takes over, a caveman king who rules his nation the way a school bully rules a playground. …
In the aftermath of last week's terrorist attacks, Americans were asked to light candles, say prayers, give money and donate blood. But where blood donations are concerned, only straights need apply. The ban on blood donations from gay men has been in effect since 1985, when the Food & Drug Administration began asking all prospective …
Photo by Jack Gould “This may be the day America's luck ran out.” —Unnamed newscaster on KCAL, as New York City and the Pentagon were wrapped in smoke “BEWITCHED: Darrin finds an envelope containing $100,000” —Onscreen info box of what was scheduled to be on KCAL at the time. New York is still choking in …
Illustration by Bob AulIt's as simple and straightforward as any high school science experiment: combine hope and incompetence, and the results are inevitably embarrassing. The latest proof of this has been provided by the Placentia-Yorba Linda School District's removal of Ken Kesey's 1963 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest from its high school core …
Republicans love to croak about saving taxpayers money and getting rid of unnecessary laws, so Clockwork couldn't help but take some delight in Governor Gray Davis—a Democrat, in case you're keeping score at home—on Aug. 13 vetoing state Senator Ross Johnson's (R-Irvine) bill that would have required the state to hold an annual penmanship contest …