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1999 Stories by Deborah Picker

• Spiritual Calling

  published December 23, 1999

  A 10-minute video tribute of actor Elaine Welton Hill‘s work was shown at her recent memorial service (Hill died Nov. 15)... More >>

• Tough Love

  published December 16, 1999

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• Getting Real in L.A.

  published December 2, 1999

  If she were a Web site, writer-actor-singer-comedian Sandra Bernhard has said, she‘d call herself www.get real.com -- partly misleading, give... More >>

• Sons & Fathers

  published October 28, 1999

  The opening sentence of Dan Fante’s debut novel suggests just how thinly disguised his fiction really is. The narrator, a washed-up write... More >>

• On the Road Again

  published September 16, 1999

  There’s a fair amount of sex in Fred Rochlin‘s autobiographical performance monologue, Old Man in a Baseball Cap -- and even more of it in t... More >>

• Art’s Deli

  published July 22, 1999

  "There’s an art to making a sandwich," restaurateur Art Ginsburg informs me. "The thickness, layering, the presentation. We’ve been... More >>

• Home, Home on the Stage

  published July 8, 1999

  ANNA GUNN HAS OBVIOUSLY READ WHATEVER DOG-EARED underground manual on celebrity conduct changes hands in L.A. She chose a trendy Hollywood café for o... More >>

• Antin on Antin(ova)

  published June 24, 1999

  Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine ArtsON THE 31st ANNIVERSARY OF HER MOVE FROM New York to California, Eleanor Antin spoke to the Weekly from... More >>

• Tall Tales

  published May 20, 1999

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• White Oleander

  published May 6, 1999

  Janet Fitch’s thoroughly enjoyable White Oleander seems at first not much more than a guilty pleasure. Ingrid, a charismatic poet with ... More >>

• Gray Matter

  published April 15, 1999

  Photo by Paula CourtWHEN SPALDING GRAY WAS A KID, HE'D MASTURBATE in the neighbor's yard. "But there were no witnesses," he laughs during a phone... More >>

• WOMEN'S DAY:

  published March 11, 1999

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