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Over the course of their 40-year collaboration, producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have earned what might be called a false reputation as boutique adapters of the world's great books. False because in their marrow, Ivory (born in Berkeley, California), Merchant (born in Bombay) and Jhabvala (born in Germany) are …
Photo by Keith MayAt the Top of the World, you can sit on a bench and watch the Pacific Ocean roll toward Laguna Beach. Or you can turn around and look into the deep, hazy crevasses that form Aliso Canyon. Then you can stand up, walk not quite 50 paces off the main paved trail, …
Illustration by Bob AulWe are all Derrideans now—sort of. The proof is last year's election. No one knows who “really” won. The truth of that election is one muddy mise en abyme. Analyze the thing all you want—and we keep analyzing: The Miami Herald's recent “recount,” despite the outrageously pacifying way it was headlined in …
Photo by Jack GouldRobin Hinch's old dog recently slipped into poor health, so she may be thinking about mortality a little more than usual. “She's an old dog, but her paws still smell like puppies,” Hinch is saying, and she has stopped typing the obituary she's writing for tomorrow's Orange County Register. It's the latest …
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Photo by Jeanne RiceFor a trio of Huntington Beach beach bums, the boys of B3Cande wield considerable power. Brett Ballou, Brian Alper and Brock Anderson don't rig election results or put men on the moon, but they do something few others can do: they're among a select club of five or so promotion companies with …
Young actress Noelle Evans needs a new agent, fast, and not just because you've never heard of her. Blond; stacked; good-looking in an '80s, David Lee Roth music-video sort of way; and capable of line-reading clichs without a speck of self-consciousness, the actress has appeared in Hellraiser: Inferno and the straight-to-video Dangerous Proposition. In her …
Photo by Jack GouldIf things got any more bizarre this week, we would have had to raise Rod Serling from the grave to run interference for us. Is there some sort of astrological doohickey perpetratin'? Is it the change of seasons makin' people crazy like they're Ted Crisell? Is it a sea change in manners …
OC Weekly DataLab researchers were recently asked to conduct a study of online dating. We were specifically asked to determine the impact of allusions to sexual congress on responses to online personal ads. To that end, we created three different female profiles: a young, attractive professional; a physically repulsive and dangerous, unemployed ex-con; and a …
OC Weekly DataLab researchers were recently asked to conduct a study of online dating. We were specifically asked to determine the impact of allusions to sexual congress on responses to online personal ads. To that end, we created three different female profiles: a young, attractive professional; a physically repulsive and dangerous, unemployed ex-con; and a …
The lights dim and the curtain opens, revealing a gorgeous Chinese countryside. Suddenly, swordsmen fly through the sky and beautiful women exchange bone-crushing blows. This is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a sweeping Asian action film of the wu xia(martial chivalry) variety that has become a bona fide box-office success in a fairly xenophobic industry. Director …
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A popular government without proper information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy —or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. —James Madison So, we've got a …
Photo by Jack GouldMonique leans halfway in through the doorway of my store to scope the attractive customers. Then he leans halfway out to take a drag on his cigarette. Monique is a man—a 6-foot, 120-pound, black transvestite. He seems to have his eye on somebody, but when I raise my eyebrows in suggestive inquiry, …